10 Things Doctor Who Fans Can Thank Steven Moffat For

9. He Wrote Those Amazing Doctor Monologues

€œOh, big, big mistake, really huge. Didn't anyone ever tell you there's one thing you never put in a trap? If you're smart, if you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there's one thing you never, ever put in a trap... Me."

The Doctor is not an action hero. He does not beat you to death or use any weapon to save the day. All he has is his silver tongue - that's what makes him different from all the rest. Witnessing the Doctor saving the day by being bigger and stronger than his enemies (*cough* - The Time of The Doctor - *cough*) is like witnessing Conan the Barbarian defeating his enemies with his computer-hacking skills. This means, whenever something comes out of the Doctor's mouth, it should be epic, and it doesn't get more so than the monologues Steven Moffat writes for him. There have been speeches by other writers, of course, and a lot of them are pretty good, too. But it was Moffat who made it a Doctor Who hallmark and it is still him that writes the best of them. There have been so many to date, but the speech that instantly comes to mind as an example is in the episode The Pandorica Opens. The skies are filled with a fleet of spaceships of the Doctor's greatest enemies and the Doctor, looking at them from the ground, says...

€œNow, the question for the hour is, "Who's got the Pandorica?" Answer: I do. Next question: "Who's coming to take it from me? Come on, look at me! No plan, no backup, no weapons worth a damn, oh, and something else I don't have: anything to lose! So, if you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceships with all your silly little guns, and you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who's standing in your way! Remember every black day I ever stopped you, and then, *and then*, do the smart thing! Let somebody else try first.€

Yup. That was pretty awesome. It instantly tells us what kind of character the Doctor is. Fear isn't what he instantly feels when he sees a monster - it's an uncontrollable rage that they would even dare to attempt to do something terrible. And in the moments of this speech he is challenging them to do it and to see for themselves what would happen. To him, they are an itch he needs to eradicate. Monsters are afraid of the guy because they know that no matter how big or strong they are, it doesn't really stand to much because he will always mange to outwit them regardless. And it's not like anyone is in the position to question the conviction of a man who has hundreds of years of defeating gods and demons under his belt. "Because I'm Batman"? How about, "Hello. I'm the Doctor".