An open leter to Russel T Davies

Dear Russel,

Please, please, for the love of the franchise don't ever write another Doctor Who script as long as you live. You just aren't very good at it, so please leave the writing thing to people who can actually do the job.

It really has come to something when I could pick pretty much any episode from the recent Torchwood season and say, hand on heart, that I'd rather watch that again than the season opener for Doctor Who. Now Torchwood isn't perfect by any means, John Barrowman (bless his heart) has a huge amount of charisma but, really, he can't act his way out of a paper bag ... still neither could William Shatner and that didn't hurt Star Trek did it? The plots don't always hang together, and post-production is often just disastrous ... but it's better than watching Catherine Tate gurn her way through an episode that you clearly only made because you got five minutes of time with the Massive engine. No season opener .. no, scratch that, no episode ever ... should feature sentient fat for pity's sake! Actually, no episode ever should feature Catherine Tate but sadly that ship seems to have sailed.

I'll carry on watching the series of course, after all, there are some good writers on your staff and David Tennant is a great Doctor ... but if Ms Tate returns as a companion in a future season then I make no guarantees.

God help us all in the season finale though, I shudder to think what Jesus iconography you're going to come up with this time.

Yours (very) sincerely,

Bin

PS. Just stop writing.

PPS. Rhys survived ... whee!