It's certainly not as if everyone else didn't know about TW. It was just Moffat, which is why it feels weird.
Off-hand Moffat's the only one writing something set before Victoria's reign. And it is quite possible/likely that RTD put some of the other ep's refs in himself.
By S1 romance, do you mean Rose? I can't think of anything else in the season that would really qualify, but am truly baffled at the idea that the Rose/Doctor thing wasn't sufficiently explained in the text. I can understand not liking it, but not thinking that they didn't explain their reasoning.
It starts throwing it in there when they've known each other for mere hours, with no effort to explain anything. What explainations do exist (mostly fanonically) don't jive with the positive way in which the relationship is otherwise presented. They're in love because they are. There's no effort at rhyme or reason, which at the very least Moffat attempted in tGitF, however convincing one finds it.
This one did not pull it off for me. It felt shallow and flat.
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Off-hand Moffat's the only one writing something set before Victoria's reign. And it is quite possible/likely that RTD put some of the other ep's refs in himself.
By S1 romance, do you mean Rose? I can't think of anything else in the season that would really qualify, but am truly baffled at the idea that the Rose/Doctor thing wasn't sufficiently explained in the text. I can understand not liking it, but not thinking that they didn't explain their reasoning.
It starts throwing it in there when they've known each other for mere hours, with no effort to explain anything. What explainations do exist (mostly fanonically) don't jive with the positive way in which the relationship is otherwise presented. They're in love because they are. There's no effort at rhyme or reason, which at the very least Moffat attempted in tGitF, however convincing one finds it.
This one did not pull it off for me. It felt shallow and flat.
*shrug* Worked for me.