New Doctor The Best, According To Moffat
Written by Wayne Hall on November 2, 2009 – 10:00 am -
With David Tennant’s time on Doctor Who coming to an end, Steven Moffat, who is helming the new season, says Matt Smith is simply “the best,” according to BBC News.
“He’s all the things you’d expect, including ancient,” Moffat said, describing the new Doctor as “someone you can’t take your eyes off.”
Filming of the new season to air in 2010 began in July, with Smith, who is the 11th actor to play The Doctor on TV and only 27 years old.
Moffat, who is writing six of the episodes and overseeing another seven, promised fans “great stories” and said there would “joyous moments” as well as “heartbreak.”
The screenwriter is currently working on the script for the climax to the year, for which expectations will be huge. “My biggest challenge right now is the writing of Episode 13,” he confessed.
Change is in store for more on the show than just The Doctor, who’ll have regenerated in the new series. The Tardis, The Doctor’s time/space travel vehicle, has also undergone a significant makeover. “There is a plot reason for it,” Moffat said. “I always liked the Tardis from the Peter Cushing Doctor Who movies, and wanted to make it more like that.”
Does Moffat continue to worry how fans will accept the show now that he’s taken the reigns from Russell T. Davies?
“Yes, you do feel the pressure,” he said. “What if I broke Doctor Who? That would be a tragedy,” he told an audience at the 2009 Screenwriters’ Festival in Cheltenham.
Moffat wrote one of the most popular episodes of the show, according to Doctor Who Magazine. That was “Blink,” featuring stone gargoyles who couldn’t move if someone was looking at them.
“The Waters of Mars,” the first of the final trilogy of Tennant’s farewell run, will air in December. Although it hasn’t been scheduled yest, his final story, “The End of Time,” in which he will regenerate into Smith’s Doctor, is expected to air at the end of 2009 or very early in 2010.
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