Dr Who-Comic Relief March 18th!! (spoilers!)

[Admiral_Young]

I think Moffat was meaning that he wasn't part of the regular writing team. I don't know what you mean he wasn't independent.

 

[Starkers]

Independant's probably the wrong word, its just the way he implies he doesn't have a vested interest in the show or in saying nice things about it when clearly he does. I'm not for one second implying he doesn't mean what he says, I just balk at the notion that he's somehow completely impartial, when he clearly isn't.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I gotcha.

 

[Sparky]

I thought it was fun. A wonderfully Moff-ian vignette.

In Rory's case I would say it was a tad more "Muff-ian"

 

[Admiral_Young]

"Rory!!!!" (yes it's my favorite quote from the bit...Matt's delivery is perfect)

 

[Australis]

*Stephen Moffatt on [Fan Reaction on] Becoming the New Showrunner*:
“The fans might be big supporters now, but watch that change! Like I say, I've given myself a deadline for when I divorce myself from fandom completely, but already I've noticed changes: it's been like seeing a big ship turn. It's not in-your-face, but fan opinion is definitely shifting.”

Eh?! What?!

HOW DARE HE SAY THAT ABOUT US! AS IF WE'D TURN ON HIM! THAT UNGRATEFUL BASTARD!!

We should get him to come here. But we'd have to find a way to shut Bones up for good.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

*On the Doctor's Age*:
“In my head, the Doctor doesn't have a bloody clue what age he is (how could he, unless he's keeping count on a big chart somewhere) and only picks on 900 ‘cause it sounds good.”

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Moffat! This is what I have been saying for years now.

*On the Doctor's name*:
“We must never know the Doctor's name, what happened to his wife and family, and the real reason he left Gallifrey. These are secrets too tremendous for the mortal mind. And he's only allowed to tell hot French chicks.”

While I completely agree on the name part, I do want to know more about his family and why he left. Granted the novels, comics, and audio plays have already done versions on this (Big Finish's Master is the first thing that comes to mind).

*On "Doctor Who" vs "The Doctor"*:
“My point only: it is beyond dispute that we know who we mean by saying 'Doctor Who' - the fact that the Doctor himself would wonder who you were talking to is beside the point.It is perfectly correct to the refer to the character as Doctor Who, even though that is NOT his name, nor the name that he, or anyone else, uses. He also doesn't call himself 'television's favourite Time Lord" either but I feel entitled to call him that too.This is all about defintions. "Doctor Who" IS NOT his name - if, by name, you mean what he calls himself and what others call him. "Doctor Who" IS his name, if by name you mean what people in general call this popular fictional character. English being lovely, vague and elastic allows both uses of the word 'name'. See? Sorted. Everybody's right. Dear God, I must be anxious not to start work this morning.”

All very true but it still bugs me to hear people call him Doctor Who.

*On Time Travel stories*:
“There are three ways of dealing with time travel in Doctor Who (you might want to print this out for future use);
1. Look, it's just a story, time travel is completely impossible, the whole thing's a farrago of lies, ooh, look at those monsters.
2. Time can only sometimes be rewritten, and the Doctor has a vast and terrible Time Brain that allows him to see when events can be altered and when they are fixed, but for us mere mortals, such insight would turn our brains to soup, ooh, look at those monsters.
3. Ooh, look at those monsters! I like 3. It's quicker.”

Pure brilliance. I have to keep this on hand for the next time someone says "Moffat doesn't understand time travel" as a reason to criticize his writing (which I've seen multiple times in this forum).

*On Continuity*:
“In the end, a television series which embraces both the ideas of parallel universes and the concept of changing time can't *have* a continuity error. It's impossible.”

Quote For The Truth.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I love the Moff.

 

[Starkers]

Pure brilliance. I have to keep this on hand for the next time someone says "Moffat doesn't understand time travel" as a reason to criticize his writing (which I've seen multiple times in this forum).

Well you can do that, it isn't going to stop me picking up on things that make no sense however. I hold Moffat to the same level of account I held RTD to, if he done good I'll say so, if he's done bad I'll say so too. He doesn't get a free pass because I happen to be (on the whole) a big fan of his writing.

 

[ITL]

I'm a big fan of The Moff, but he does love his bootstrap paradoxes....and they niggle my brainpan a wee bit. MST3K Mantra helps, I find.

 

[Sci]

Interesting quotes from Moffat...not sure I buy the "I'm completely independant and not one of the production team" given that he was writing episodes from the off mind you...

He was a freelancer, though, not a staffer.

er so he's not completely independant then is he? I mean not if he wants to keep getting the chance to write Dr Who? He might not be on the official payroll, but clearly he wasn't independant...

He certainly seemed to regard himself as independent. As he notes several times, he had a very successful TV career of his own and didn't really need the work. Anything he did for Doctor Who was done for love of the program and the character, not out of need.

So if he says he was speaking his mind and was independent, and that he did not so desperately want to work on the show again that he'd say something he didn't mean, I'm willing to take him at his word.

 

[DAK]

And more. Some of these are from other sources.

*Matt Smith*:
[From ‘Doctor Who Magazine: 405] “It's the first day of the auditions, we've only been at it an hour - and sitting in front of us, fully formed and unmistakeable, is the Eleventh Doctor. I'm watching the tape of the audition right now, I can hear myself laughing at my own jokes - I usually only do that when I'm talking. Every detail is absolutely right - boffin and action hero, schoolboy and professor, hot young guy and ancient wizard. He's like Patrick Moore trapped in the body of an underwear model.

Mmmm, underwear model

The rest of the description is spot on as well.

And I hope Mr. Moffat gives us three Doctors next year as well! Be still my overactive imagination.

 

[Bones2]

We should get him to come here. But we'd have to find a way to shut Bones up for good.

Why?

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

You could very well turn him off writing for Who

 

[Bones2]

Why?

 

[captcalhoun]

cuz y's ain't zeds.

 

[Bones2]

En anglais?

 

[Psion]

Welcome back, Bones!

 

[Bones2]

Cheers Psi. I feel like Ronnie Barker in Porridge, the amount of stretches I've done.

Only I'm much funnier.

 

[Cutter John]

If he can survive GB, he can handle Bones.