2. Steven Moffat Has Turned Doctor Who Into A Fairytale
When setting out his stall for his new take on Doctor Who, Steven Moffat promised that the show would be a dark fairytale. It certainly lived up to that billing during the Eleventh Doctor's era. The 3D trailer for Series 5, which had Amy Pond travelling through the vortex surrounded by various foes, was reminiscent of both Alice down the rabbit hole and Dorothy being whisked away on the tornado to Oz. The Eleventh Doctor tells Amy her name sounds like a fairytale and Murray Gold's musical themes take on distinctively whimsical notes compared to the bold scores of Series 1 to 4. For Moffat, the aesthetics are more important than the science behind the fiction. And so whilst the whimsy of Series 5 to 7 has certainly been superseded by a more serious, reflective approach to the two leads, Capaldi's first series also contains magical elements, no more so than in Kill The Moon. Moffat has argues, "When Doctor Who's really, really good, there's a feeling of magic about it. It's a magical feeling show.