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How does a rabid fan write "Doctor Who"? "Very, very slowly."
COMIC-CON -- After writing "Tintin," why in the world would Steven Moffat turn down the chance to write the sequel? Because, while there's nothing but love for director Steven Spielberg and producer Peter Jackson, he may love "Doctor Who" even more.
Moffat, who was recently announced as the showrunner for the fifth season of the BBC's "Doctor Who," raved about his childhood love for the British sci-fi icon at the Thursday's noon panel, refusing to pick a least-favorite of the show's previous incarnations.
Asked which version of the series was his favorite, Moffat expressed his loyalty for the current series "because Tom Baker (the fourth actor to play the Doctor) never rang me up and said, 'oh, go on.' But I did love it all, genuinely."
"You write the kind of 'Doctor Who' that you remember and I remember being absolutely terrified," Moffat said. "So that's what I write."
Moffat will take over the series in 2010, but says he has already begun writing the first episode "very, very slowly." -- Liz Shannon Miller



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Moffat is a terrific writer. His Who episodes, particularly The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, The Girl in the Fireplace and Blink, are better than most genre movies. It will be intriguing to see how his Tintin screenplay will turn out.
Posted by: Mark | July 24, 2008 at 01:50 PM