I feel the same way, and you put it so succinctly! :)
I'm tired of Moffat making up his own rules and breaking old rules, and making the Doctor suddenly act and react differently to situations where we would expect him to act a certain way. I'm all for character development, I would NOT want Twelve to be JUST LIKE Nine or Ten, of course not!, but we could see HOW Nine and Ten arrived at the emotions they developed and decisions that they made. I feel like that's lacking in Twelve, another reason why he hasn't really grown on me.
The same technical items you noted ("time can be rewritten", no isomorphic controls, etc) are things I noticed and irked me. As well...the fact that old Kazran TOUCHED young Kazran kinda drove me bonkers! After all we learned from Nine and Ten about not f'ing with the timeline, etc., Twelve just FLOUTS that!
And yes, I agree that so many characters are ending up as plot devices for an obvious story that Moffat just HAS to tell, but can't fit into the time he's given, so he has to take shortcuts. I'm rather disappointed with that, especially since Blink is one of my FAVOURITE episodes, and I was expecting stories of the same caliber.
Going back to your original peeve, I'm not sure what to think about the Doctor not appearing to care about all of the other people in stasis. Again, Twelve just seems to DO things with no explanation sometimes, and I don't like that.
And I still have one question: In the beginning, was Abigail really just "nobody of any importance" to Kazran when the Doctor rolled in? Going back to his young self, kiddo seemed infatuated with her anyway, but...I don't know why.
I'm so frustrated with the way the show is going, that I have no urge to re-watch to find my answers. It only frustrates me more. :P
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I'm tired of Moffat making up his own rules and breaking old rules, and making the Doctor suddenly act and react differently to situations where we would expect him to act a certain way. I'm all for character development, I would NOT want Twelve to be JUST LIKE Nine or Ten, of course not!, but we could see HOW Nine and Ten arrived at the emotions they developed and decisions that they made. I feel like that's lacking in Twelve, another reason why he hasn't really grown on me.
The same technical items you noted ("time can be rewritten", no isomorphic controls, etc) are things I noticed and irked me. As well...the fact that old Kazran TOUCHED young Kazran kinda drove me bonkers! After all we learned from Nine and Ten about not f'ing with the timeline, etc., Twelve just FLOUTS that!
And yes, I agree that so many characters are ending up as plot devices for an obvious story that Moffat just HAS to tell, but can't fit into the time he's given, so he has to take shortcuts. I'm rather disappointed with that, especially since Blink is one of my FAVOURITE episodes, and I was expecting stories of the same caliber.
Going back to your original peeve, I'm not sure what to think about the Doctor not appearing to care about all of the other people in stasis. Again, Twelve just seems to DO things with no explanation sometimes, and I don't like that.
And I still have one question: In the beginning, was Abigail really just "nobody of any importance" to Kazran when the Doctor rolled in? Going back to his young self, kiddo seemed infatuated with her anyway, but...I don't know why.
I'm so frustrated with the way the show is going, that I have no urge to re-watch to find my answers. It only frustrates me more. :P