Moffat on His Series 8 Worries
“Each time you make a big shift, which we did this year, then you’re properly worried. It’s like being the curator of the crown jewels or something,” he explained at the Series 8 DVD launch.
“At the same time, you have to shut that off in your mind – you’ve got to treat it like you own it, even though you don’t. You have to be bold with it – if all you’re ever doing is tending to the upkeep of the monument, then it’s not going to be a proper TV show.”
Moffat also spoke about how he has written for all episodes in a series, not just those with his name on. Something he points out that some critics miss.
“I’ve written loads of Doctor Who that my name’s nowhere near and quite right too, because what I am doing is engineering rather than authorship,” he said. “But particularly in the early days of the new Doctor, we were trying very hard to establish a new tone for the show… so I got quite heavily involved in the first few scripts.”
He adds: “I remember once reading a review of a Doctor Who episode which listed a whole lot of really funny lines, saying, ‘This is the kind of thing we haven’t had since Moffat took over!’ – I wrote every single one!”
