Post by Babu Baboon on May 17, 2015 9:10:29 GMT -6
Speaking at the recent Bafta Wales presentation in New York to celebrate 10 years of Doctor Who’s return to TV, showrunner Steven Moffat made a rather odd assertion, one that will cause puzzled looks on the faces of many fans, young and old.
It boils down to this: the Doctor is not a role model.
Despite potentially alienating a large portion of fans from his own age group, Moffat seems to be blissfully unaware of just how important the Doctor is. Or is he just taking the piss?
In a discussion about that old chestnut of gener switching, the man who has apparently gained another year in charge of the show (it was mentioned at the event that Moffat is running Series 10) reasoned that as the Doctor is mad, he’s not a role model. We suggest respectfully that it isn’t for Moffat to decide who is and who is not a role model…
“There’s an aspect to it where you could say that if you made the Doctor female you’d lose a fairly unique rare role model, I’m not sure if I’m completely persuaded by that argument purely because I don’t think the Doctor is the role model of Doctor Who. He isn’t. Because you can’t really base yourself on the Doctor.”
Sorry cosplayers. You can’t base yourself on the Doctor.
“He’s off the spectrum, barking mad, from space and has lots of mysterious abilities that we do not. How do you base yourself on that?”
The Doctor, the alien time traveller whose humanity outshines us all. How do we base ourslves on that. Hmm, let me think…
“The role model is actually the other character, his best friend, the person who deals with this out of control, overgrown schoolboy racing around the universe being rather too imperious and too interfering for his own good.”
So, robot dog K9 is the role model. Or Rose Tyler, the selfish teenager with “daddy issues”? Perhaps Amy Pond, the oversexed kissogram, or Clara Oswald, the control freak.
These are your role models, Steven Moffat?
This explains a lot.
“Some relief will come from the end statement, however: namely that Peter Capaldi isn’t going anywhere, so the conversation is moot.”
It’s a long and complicated argument and there’s no vacancy in Doctor Who and given the way Peter is talking about it I don’t think there will be for a very long while.
www.kasterborous.com/2015/05/the-doctor-is-not-your-role-model-says-showrunner-moffat/
It boils down to this: the Doctor is not a role model.
Despite potentially alienating a large portion of fans from his own age group, Moffat seems to be blissfully unaware of just how important the Doctor is. Or is he just taking the piss?
In a discussion about that old chestnut of gener switching, the man who has apparently gained another year in charge of the show (it was mentioned at the event that Moffat is running Series 10) reasoned that as the Doctor is mad, he’s not a role model. We suggest respectfully that it isn’t for Moffat to decide who is and who is not a role model…
“There’s an aspect to it where you could say that if you made the Doctor female you’d lose a fairly unique rare role model, I’m not sure if I’m completely persuaded by that argument purely because I don’t think the Doctor is the role model of Doctor Who. He isn’t. Because you can’t really base yourself on the Doctor.”
Sorry cosplayers. You can’t base yourself on the Doctor.
“He’s off the spectrum, barking mad, from space and has lots of mysterious abilities that we do not. How do you base yourself on that?”
The Doctor, the alien time traveller whose humanity outshines us all. How do we base ourslves on that. Hmm, let me think…
“The role model is actually the other character, his best friend, the person who deals with this out of control, overgrown schoolboy racing around the universe being rather too imperious and too interfering for his own good.”
So, robot dog K9 is the role model. Or Rose Tyler, the selfish teenager with “daddy issues”? Perhaps Amy Pond, the oversexed kissogram, or Clara Oswald, the control freak.
These are your role models, Steven Moffat?
This explains a lot.
“Some relief will come from the end statement, however: namely that Peter Capaldi isn’t going anywhere, so the conversation is moot.”
It’s a long and complicated argument and there’s no vacancy in Doctor Who and given the way Peter is talking about it I don’t think there will be for a very long while.
www.kasterborous.com/2015/05/the-doctor-is-not-your-role-model-says-showrunner-moffat/