Doctor Who Series 8: Everything We Know So Far
11. Back Behind The Sofa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwhWDnff1sk
Terrifying children is something that comes with the territory of managing Doctor Who and, judging by his previous work and tongue-in-cheek comments, is one of the perks of the job for Steven Moffat. Although it seems impossible for Moffat to top something like Blink or create a scarier enemy than the Weeping Angels or the Silence, the fourth episode (titled Listen) seems to be one that takes him back to his Doctor Who roots. Though he personally considers it to be a complete departure for himself, describing it as "The story of a date and the Doctor having a mild nervous breakdown". Listen runs on the premise of When you talk to yourself, what if youre actually talking to somebody else?, which seems like an archetypal Moffat concept. Its the idea of taking the most mundane of things and making it terrifying. Which has been a constant theme in his writing for the past nine years. Away from Steven Moffats concentrated attempts to traumatise children, his opinion is that the real behind the sofa story will be Episode 9 (rumoured to have the title of Flatline), written by Jamie Mathieson. An episode that Moffat is calling A horror story. A proper scary one.