RTD's writing style always reminds me of Wagner - huge, sweeping, emotionally charged pieces which when they work are heartrending tours de force, but which always run the risk of tipping over into uncontrolled pompous schmaltz (I love lots of Wagner, just as I love a lot of RTD, but there are times with both when I find myself snorting with cynical laughter when I think I was meant to be in tears.)

Whereas Steven Moffat writes like Bach - structurally flawless, economical, elegant, never a word (note) wasted, far less showy but with a tendency to get right under one's skin. And I've never heard a piece of Bach I didn't like.

(Tempted now to start assigning RTD episodes to Wagner operas but I think this analogy can only be stretched so far...)

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