Steven Moffat is My Writer

[iko]

You know how people say "X is My Doctor"?*

Well, Steven Moffat is My Writer. My New Who Writer. I recognize that his style and his characterizations don't suit everyone's tastes, but they Totally Do It for me. And I love how he thinks about Doctor Who. He's not perfect, but the more he talks about the show, the more I feel that he's looking inside

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[casey98]

Oh I love the Sound of Young America. I will have to listen to it.

And what he says about him being a serial faller is so totally spot on.

[iko]

Yes! When I heard that the trio recorded an interview with The Sound of Young America, I couldn't wait for it to pop up! One of the few interviews that I was really hoping for with the past media blitz.

[syzygy_lj]

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. The Doctor loves the TARDIS. He may love his companions (all of them, equally), but the big love of his life is that blue box.

Remember what Alice Troughton told me: Doctor/TARDIS shippers are going to be VERY happy with S5.

[iko]

Wheeeee!

And yes, I do ship Doctor/TARDIS. Come to think of it, I ship almost everything on the show. I wonder what that says about me? Hmm. *ponders*

Hee!

But yes, he does love his companions and the lengths that he goes to in order to keep them safe is incredible. And when they tell them that there are more important things (Rose in "World War Three") or are willing to suffer through incredible things (Martha in "Human Nature" and wandering the Earth) or that they are willing to share the burden with the Doctor (Donna in "The Fires of Pompeii"), that's when I understand why he does love them all too. *hugs and loves them all*

[nostalgia_lj]

Doctor/TARDIS for the mfcking win!

[iko]

ABSOLUTELY! THEIR LUV IS SO TRUE!

[808]

As a newbie watcher, I want more Tardis in my Dr. Who! So this is great news to hear...

As a kid, I just loved Star Trek. But I'd only watch the episodes that took place on the Enterprise. She was my favorite character.

Gene Roddenberry said that Kirk was "married to the Enterprise". I think Bones even says something like that in one of the early episodes.

[iko]

I am hoping that someday we'll get an adventure in the TARDIS. After all, Amy says, "There's a whole world in here, just like you said" in "The Eleventh Hour". I want that world to be explored. It's a hook writers! Moffat gives BIG FAT HOOKS in his works and I want someone to take it on!

I really should get into watching Star Trek. I watched TNG growing up and some DS9 and Voyager, but not anything else and I feel like I'm missing a huge part of my required cultural vocabulary since I call myself a geek. Hee!

[808]

The better episodes hold up well, but still need to be viewed through the lens of 1960's America. I suggest watching the remastered versions of the top 10 fan favorite episodes so as to avoid the trek drek. I'm sure there is a list somewhere. (Two of my favs are Devil in the Dark and A Taste of Armageddon.) At least that will familiarize you with the famous scenes people like to make fun of. :)

[iko]

Noted, thank you for the reccies!

I've seen clips but I've not REALLY seen an entire episode. (Do I lose my geek cred if I say that?)

[chelseagirl]

Were you ever on doctard, the Doctor/Tardis 'shipper community?

Who is something I watch with my husband, it's one of our things to do together, but he was dragging his heels on the new series; Tennant had thoroughly replaced T. Baker as "his" Doctor (I'm still partial to Eccleston, myself) and he was wary. We watched Saturday on BBCA . . . and immediately he went to the computer and we caught up on the next two the next day. Moffat is doing an amazing job so far; I found myself tearing up at the end of eps two *and* three, for various reasons, and both guest star and guest villain for next week have me squeeing.

[iko]

Oh no! *runs to join up*
New stuff to read! *dances*

My partner doesn't watch Doctor Who with my, really, but I think that there's enough in this current series of Who that he's willing to watch them (sorta) with me. I think he's mostly interested in the Moffat episodes. I need to watch them first, just so that he won't get turned off: he doesn't have much patience for not-really-science fiction science fiction. He doesn't like television much, come to think of it.

It's really nice to hear that the "fire" has been lit in your household. The Fifth Doctor is still very much My Doctor, but I have to say that the presentation of the Eleventh Doctor is giving the Fifth a run for his money. I was totally tearing up in "The Beast Below" when Liz Ten is on the monitor talking about the history of Starship UK. I have to bite my lip to not really let go when she says, "Like a miracle". *tear*

I can't wait for this Saturday! This week is going to drag on *so* slowly...