Interesting Old Quote from Moffat
Well, I'm struggling through my first day back at work. Sometimes it's a grueling struggle just to make it across the room whereas other times I'm ready to do anything. Such is the state of recovery.
Anyway, on my lunch break, I was eating a BLT (with, oddly enough, onions, pickles, and green peppers) while reading through one of my backup issues of DWM, Special Volume 6 (In Their Own Words), and was reading this interesting quote from a Steven Moffat interview back in DWM 279 (around 1997, when they were doing a comedy sketch called "The Curse of the Fatal Death"):
Although I loved Peter Davison and Paul McGann -- probably the two best actors in the role -- I don't think young, dashing Doctors are right at all. The Doctor should always be a bit more Picard and a bit less Kirk. He should be 40-plus and weird-looking -- the kind of wacky grandfather that kids know on sight to be secretly one of them.
First of all, way to go Star Trek references! Second, awesome Doctor choices (for the time). But, third, doesn't this strike you as an odd statement considering what he's done with the series so far?
With Matt Smith and Eleven, Moffat has created one of the youngest Doctors to grace our screens, he's more of a Kirk than a Picard (not sure how Eleven could really be a Picard: way too much dashing about for calculating measures), and although Eleven has a bit of the weird-look to him, he's still got a charm that is in no way grandfatherly. Nothing like the early Doctors I believe Moffat was thinking of. This whole paragraph, albeit from an interview taken over a decade before Moffat took over from RTD, is still rather shocking. What, exactly, made him change his mind? Interesting....
And now would be an awesome time to have a beard to stroke as I ponder. *strokes invisible beard* How interesting....
I also need to find that twenty-plus minute sketch. The Thirteenth Doctor played by a woman with a female fiance (although they seemed to have started off before a regeneration)? How interesting indeed.
Ok, now I'm off to finish the last of my work day. If I can get through today in one piece, I'll have done well. :)
Anyway, on my lunch break, I was eating a BLT (with, oddly enough, onions, pickles, and green peppers) while reading through one of my backup issues of DWM, Special Volume 6 (In Their Own Words), and was reading this interesting quote from a Steven Moffat interview back in DWM 279 (around 1997, when they were doing a comedy sketch called "The Curse of the Fatal Death"):
Although I loved Peter Davison and Paul McGann -- probably the two best actors in the role -- I don't think young, dashing Doctors are right at all. The Doctor should always be a bit more Picard and a bit less Kirk. He should be 40-plus and weird-looking -- the kind of wacky grandfather that kids know on sight to be secretly one of them.
First of all, way to go Star Trek references! Second, awesome Doctor choices (for the time). But, third, doesn't this strike you as an odd statement considering what he's done with the series so far?
With Matt Smith and Eleven, Moffat has created one of the youngest Doctors to grace our screens, he's more of a Kirk than a Picard (not sure how Eleven could really be a Picard: way too much dashing about for calculating measures), and although Eleven has a bit of the weird-look to him, he's still got a charm that is in no way grandfatherly. Nothing like the early Doctors I believe Moffat was thinking of. This whole paragraph, albeit from an interview taken over a decade before Moffat took over from RTD, is still rather shocking. What, exactly, made him change his mind? Interesting....
And now would be an awesome time to have a beard to stroke as I ponder. *strokes invisible beard* How interesting....
I also need to find that twenty-plus minute sketch. The Thirteenth Doctor played by a woman with a female fiance (although they seemed to have started off before a regeneration)? How interesting indeed.
Ok, now I'm off to finish the last of my work day. If I can get through today in one piece, I'll have done well. :)