Is that why RTD only celebrated his own previous era in that mini-season we had last year? 
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He celebrated the best TARDIS team with a first doctor villain from TV and a fourth doctor villain from DWM. A perfect representation of the show.
He had a difficult task. He also needed to convince people that the show was back after the train wreck that was before with Flux and Sea Devils. But he did it!
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I know. Toymaker, UNIT, Mel, Beep the Meep.
Which was great.
But that incarnation of the Doctor will probably always be my least favourite, and I just so dislike the rewriting of Donna’s tragic ending. So the odds that I will keep making cheap digs at that “ordinary” mini-season are quite high 
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I choose not to comment on the bit about Flux!
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Oh wait what I will do is remind @Tian what I named him on my phone when I was in Stockholm 
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That tells you all you need to know about him.
Now Tian needs to name you “Bill Filer the End of Time Hater”.
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Just like I will keep making cheap digs at Flux
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He is called: “Bill the nice guy with the bad taste”
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Better than “Bill the bad guy with nice taste” I guess 
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He absolutely should be stopped. Banned from ever returning to the tv show. He’s written 9 episodes, he’s appeared in a few. Enough now! I’m not enjoying the current era of the show, I’d enjoy it even less if another old man who has been part of fandom for decades returned to write an episode.
It would probably be 15 meeting Oscar Wilde battling an alien living underneath a theatre feeding off the emotions of the audience. They’d defeat it by having a verbal duel of witty one-liners. Gatiss would play Wilde 
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But, this sounds like a good, fun, old-school Who adventure! Are you telling us you don’t want that???
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I’ll write it for you. It popped into my head when I thought, what would Gatiss do?
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Aside from Gatiss playing Wilde, that sounds huge fun!
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Maybe it woul be, but it would be such an obvious story from Gatiss. Especially as I just thought of it in about 5 minutes. I’ll call Nick Briggs & pretend to be him writing under a pseudonym
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Then we could all brag about having a genuine Who writer on the forum
But you’re right, that sounds a lot like a Gatiss-penned episode. And I guess that is part of the reason why people aren’t very keen on him returning, since he is so predictable.
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We had one of them at least already in the Night of the Kraken thread
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I’m not entirely sure why being ‘predictable’ is an issue - surely all writers have a style and lean into the same sort of stories when they contribute to the series.
And actually, are Sleep No More and The Crimson Horror particularly similar? Is The Idiot’s Lantern the same as The Unquiet Dead?
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That’s right! I meant to say TV writer, but we’ve of course had an authro here already 
I don’t see it as an issue personally, and as you say, this is common with other writers. Just look ar RTD and his way of writing companions families and everyday lives or season finales. Or Moffat with his knack for timey-wimey plots. Or Terry Nation, who kept copy-pasting his past ideas to his new scripts. Or Douglas Adams and his unique blend of humour and sci-fi. And so on…
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I think the issue - for me anyway - with Gatiss is that he is so hit or miss, and when he misses you get absolutely the most boring dross ever. But his hits are a lot of fun, so I think people are down on him more than they ought to be
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Which is also true of so many other writers.
I don’t think for one minute this is where @monkeyshaver is coming from, but I do think some of the pushback against Gatiss is fan jealousy. He’s one of a elite bunch of fans who actually got to not only write for the show but also star in it.
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