At the end of the day though, despite all the good things, the bad things, 'The Beast Below' and the War Doctor, Steven Moffat is one of us. An unapologetically dedicated, unbelievably studious, excitable, furious and colossal Doctor Who fan. He's a man who either makes best friends or sworn enemies with his audience, and we all stand somewhere on his take on Who. But he's a fan. A huge Doctor Who fan is running Doctor Who. And that's gloriously satisfying, even if we don't agree where his stories are any good.
"I've unplugged myself from all of that. All of the forums and all of those things. I literally can't read stuff online anymore. It's a very, very bad sample of the audience. By bad I mean it's not representative of the audience at all. Not because they're stupid, I don't think they're stupid I think their reactions are valid and interesting and I've enjoyed reading them but, if I let that voice into my head I'll start making the show for the wrong audience. Because the show is for first the children, then everybody else and then last right in the back of the queue, is the fans. I'm sorry, but it's true. I'm a fan myself and I have to stand at the back of the queue sometimes, but that's all right."
The Doctor Who Forum
"Most of the time, I'm just a fan and most of my writing is on other shows (God help them.) Now and then, I have a go of Doctor Who - which is rather good fun, for an old fan like me - but it's not my whole life."
The Doctor Who Forum
"How much more public a tragic-geek-fan could I be? I hate football, the rest of sport, cars, and almost all proper man-stuff. I can list all the Doctor Who stories in order. I've got Picked Last For Games written all over me (they held me down and got a felt tip.) I'm a member of the Doctor Who forum, posting under my own name. I've stood on the bloody Newsnight set, with David Tennant, on television, and humiliated myself with a depth of enthusiasm bordering on Speaking In Tongues. I write stories where tragic geeks get hot women. Over and over again. Till I start crying."
The Doctor Who Forum
"I'm 45, work on the show. Keep thinking "Ooh, it's Doctor Who day!"
