“We are going to do the story properly of the Doctor having lost a friend and making a new one. We’re not taking that lightly. It’s not in one door out the other. It’s the story of how all that affects him, why he engages with somebody else and what’s going on with that – that’s all important.
What does Jenna bring to it? It’s surprising just how much the show changes with a new co-star. The Doctor is quite different with her, and the way you watch them is quite different. You watched the Eleventh Doctor and Amy arrive together. It’s like they grew up in the same sandpit, playing. They felt not quite like equals – the Doctor never feels like an equal to his companion – but you knew them equally well and they were equally important to each other. They formed around each other. And one of the interesting things about writing the Doctor is that he’s so responsive to the people around him. It’s almost like left on his own his personality would slowly disintegrate. He becomes what people want him to be, a little bit. So he’s Amy’s Raggedy Doctor.
With a different companion he becomes a slightly different man. He dresses differently. The mere fact that he’s so much taller than her suddenly reveals that Matt Smith is very tall, not, as people assume, about average height, because he was about the same height as Karen. He’s the senior man, not in the sense that he’s more important but he’s the one you know already, and he’s training up a new one, as it were. In these five episodes the Doctor is practically the adopted son of Amy and Rory. He’s gone from being the wonderful man from space – Space Gandalf, as he wants to be – to being that troublesome kid that they try and keep under control. They even talked about getting babysitters for him in one unfortunately cut scene. They love him, but they know he’s a big kid, they know they have to look out for him, check he eats and all that. Whereas with the new companion he’s back to being the mysterious spacefarer.
And this never goes away, this thrill – you want to see the reaction when you see it’s bigger on the inside, you want to see the count the hearts moment, you want the story to begin again. And that’s what it gives you. It gives you Doctor Who at its most iconic, because a new person is having to learn the rules – and you’ve seen that story how many times now? I don’t think you ever get tired of it.”
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Steven Moffat Talks New Doctor Who Companion
The Doctor has been dropping in on the Ponds for some years now, and he’s barely even noticed that his little Amelia Pond is now wearing reading glasses. Surely nothing has to change now? Surely this can go on forever? Has the wandering Time Lord at last found a family and the nearest thing to a home he could imagine? But out there in New York the Weeping Angels are waiting for them all, and a very different destiny is falling into place. Not even River Song can save them from the terrible events to come. Heartbreak is always a terrible thing. But imagine if you had two of them…
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| — | Steven Moffat on ‘The Angels Take Manhattan’. (via waiting-for-the-tardis) |
Because I’ve never been a 17 year old girl, it’s rather interesting to think like one, or rather to force yourself to consider the world from that perspective. And it actually started to make me angry. I’d never really thought about it before, but you know, when I’d consider the world from the viewpoint of this dynamic, highly intelligent, highly talented 17 year old girl, and think what’s going to happen to her, think about how much harder it’s going to be for her than it would be if she’d been a boy, it made me so angry.
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-Steven Moffat. (via stfu-moffathaters) Can I just hug you right now? Really, Moff, I just adore you, your respect for women, and your BAMF Fictional Feminists! (via mewiet) This is why I defend Steven Moffat. While he definitely does have problems with feminism, it is quotes like this that make me believe that it is not malicious, and merely a byproduct of the social system we all live in. He doesn’t always do the right thing, but his heart is in the right place. |
Why do you trust me? What have I ever done to deserve that?
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| — | Steven Moffat (joking) when Chris Hardwick reminds him that we fans trust him with our hearts. (via doctorwho) |
MOFFAT HEADCANON
Steven Moffat is a supernatural creature that survives on the tears and broken hearts of fangirls. “Feels” are actually Steven Moffat stealing your soul little by little, and after he’s reduced the entire fangirl population to dust, he slowly moves on to the next civilization, working his way through time and space. He’s so good at writing Doctor Who aliens because HE IS ONE.
