Doctor Who: 12 Steven Moffat Quotes You Might Not Have Heard
10. On Common Criticisms Levelled At Doctor Who...
Whilst so many level all the failings of Who at his door, Moffat has often spoken in the past of his love/hate relationship with the show. He clearly loved Who enough to get into writing and eventually turn down a job in Hollywood to head-write it, but he's also aware of Doctor Who's failings and flaws, perhaps more than most. But whilst it's easy for some to mock a show about an alien in a blue box fighting pepperpots, the Moff has had some robust retorts to the naysayers in the past. He isn't often as confrontational these days, so these are rare excerpts.
"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."
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"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."
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"Most fans are delighted with just about all of Doctor Who: really, they are. But mixed in with that are some insanely vocal ones who go on about how they hated it every single week. Which raises the question, "Why are you ****ing watching it then?" Many of those guys used to support my episodes, but they already think I'll **** it up completely now."
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"Having the Doctor be able to open his door is not a big deal. You've seen him change his face."
