Pandorica Jar

Mostly Doctor Who. This is a Moffat-friendly blog.

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The TARDIS has landed. ✨

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This is one of my favourite Steven Moffat clips ever! Apparently this is something that’s on display at Southbank London right now to promote the show.

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I love this man. Fight me.

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Rachel Talalay is Back to Direct Missy and Mondasian Cybermen

The BBC has confirmed that @racheltalalay will be back to direct the two-part Series 10 finale!

She’s being reunited with Michelle Gomez as Missy and our favorite foes, the Cybermen. This time around, she also gets the extra challenge of resurrecting the original Mondasian Cybermen from the 1966 story “The Tenth Planet.”

Now that the BBC has confirmed Rachel Talalay is returning, we have the final tally for women writers and directors for Series 10: Two women writers (Sarah Dollard and Rona Munro) and one women director. That’s slightly down from the Series 9 high of two women writers and two women directors.

Though we still need need to push for progress (and we’re terribly far from parity) there are reasons to be encouraged. It’s great to see both Rachel Talalay and Sarah Dollard returning to Doctor Who, particularly since this is now the third Series in a row that Rachel Talalay has directed the finale. It’s also encouraging to see that the first Classic Who writer recruited to return to the new series is one of the few women who ever wrote for the Classic Series.

Keep pushing, but certainly don’t be discouraged.

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# i also hope he brings in wayne yip from class there could be more diversity in terms of race too

Wayne Yip directs episodes 8 and 9 this year.

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I do think there’s a reading of [Heaven Sent] that living the same life over and over again while you smash your face against a wall of pure diamond is roughly what it’s like making Doctor Who…You kill yourself every time, and then you get up and do it again.

Steven Moffat, DWM 502, showing that he really needs a vacation and Chibnall really needs a drink. (via scriptscribbles)

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recentish doctor who mysteries:

2013: who’s clara? what’s the doctor’s secret? who gave clara the doctor’s number?

2014: who’s missy? what is the promised land? where’s gallifrey?

2015: who and what is the hybrid?

2016: WHERE IS THE SERIES 9 SOUNDTRACK?

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Yes, Moffat and Gatiss absolutely could have phrased their Johnlock-sinking-torpedo better. I understand why people are upset about that and sympathize. The thing is, they already had phrased it better. They have been saying that, while they respect the fans and their love of it, and encourage fan reclaiming of the text in whatever way empowers them, they don’t intend to ever write that relationship. They’ve been saying it for ages. There’s absolutely a trace of bitterness in that interview, but I would say that’s the bitterness of having to say the same thing over and over and not being listened to.

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Steven Moffat on twisting his words about gay representation to suit Johnlock conspiracy theorists (from With an Accent interview):

“What is irksome is what I am talking about is quite a serious thing, a serious question, seriously answered by both myself and Bryan Fuller who managed to answer much more quickly than I did.  I was talking about the representation of minorities in science fiction shows and in popular culture. Using the example of talking about gay characters and how you present them. I was actually largely talking about Doctor Who, ’cause Doctor Who addresses children. And I was talking about how do you handle gay characters in a fiction like Doctor Who when you are addressing very directly, children.  You don’t want it to be campaigning. You don’t want to be table thumping about it. You don’t want to essentially tell children that there’s something to campaign about. You want to say this is absolutely fine and normal. There is no question to answer. You want to walk right past it, in a way. You don’t want to… If you say, as sometimes other kinds of literature or movies might, we forgive you for being gay. You’re just saying you’re gay and it doesn’t matter. There’s no issue.”

“That’s what I was talking about. Was not talking, I was very much specifically not talking about…” continued Moffat, clearly passionate about the topic, and frustrated at the way his words have been twisted, “It is infuriating frankly, to be talking about a serious subject and to have Twitter run around and say oh that means Sherlock is gay.  Very explicitly it does not. We are taking a serious subject and trivializing it beyond endurance.”

[...] “I was talking about representation, as was Bryan, in quite a serious way. What they did was scale back that conversation and make it about something extremely silly. And that’s not helping anyone.  I cared a lot about what I said on that panel. I meant it. And I don’t like it being reinterpreted as something else. [We’re] not telling anyone what to think. Mark isn’t saying other people can’t write that version of John and Sherlock getting together. We’re not. We’re not engaging in a clever conspiracy to write something under the radar, we’re just writing the show we’re writing.”

I clarified, at this point in the conversation, “That’s not the story you’re telling.”

“Yeah, that’s it,” Moffat responds. “But they can. They can. Once we hand the show to them, it’s theirs and we’re finished with it. They can do what they like.”

[scriptscribbles]

He’s now gonna be Dr. Steven Moffat, OBE.

Blimey, he’s racking up titles.

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In fact, Steven Moffat already got one honorary doctorate from Glasgow University (his alma mater). It was in June 2013 and Sue Vertue nearly gave people heart attack when she announced that on twitter...

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headcanon

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The most compelling headcanon I’ve ever seen

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Some people on the Internet: Moffat ruined the RTD era of Doctor Who! Bringing back Gallifrey undermined the show!

RTD, in Moffat’s current TARDIS:

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the women directors of Doctor Who

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Whilst I'll commend Moffat for making the show more diverse, his comment about history kinda rubs me the wrong way. Diversity in historical dramas shouldn't be a "lie", Britain and most parts of the world have always been diverse. I could be wrong, and he's talking about another matter entirely, but that has got to be one thing I disagree on with him. He has made the show more diverse, and I'll give him that; just I don't agree on him with that comment.

That statement is a bit of a mixed bag, for the reason you listed, but at the same time I think it makes an important point about the practice of casting - and that becomes a lot clearer when taking the full comment into account.

Czytaj dalej

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Additionally, Steven Moffat was giving that interview at the time when there was a rather angry “debate” going on over the fact that Sophie Okonedo played queen Margaret in The Hollow Crown. So no wonder that clearly ahistorical examples were on his mind.

By the way, saying “most parts of the world have always been diverse” is simply not true. Britain have been quite diverse, but it’s rather an outlier in that regard. As usual on Tumblr, it seems to be in order to remind that USA and UK are not neceserily good representatives of the most of the world.

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Lol @ Russell's make handsome young man fall in love w/ me plan. Slightly reminds me of this gem from an piece the Moff did for bbc Asia about Sherlock: "Oh, she’s a persuasive one, Sue. Well, she must be, because all of sudden we were making a pilot and then we were making three 90-minute movies. Frankly, I’d marry the girl, if I wasn’t (a) a bit busy at the moment (b) already married (c) to her." I'm always here for Sue and Steven being adorable about each other.

Honestly, it’s really sweet. In the Writer’s Tale, it’s even mentioned that Steven considered not going on to work on running Who because he wanted to work with Sue again (I guess this is before Sherlock was in the running). They’re really quite a media power couple, and very good at what they do.

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A friend of mine who knows Steven Moffat once mentioned getting in touch with him to go for a coffee and I asked how one does that and he said 'Chain a goat to the spikes outside his citadel.' Like from what I know of our mutual friends, the whole joke is that he and his buddies totally play up the fandom's mentality of him as an evil dictator but he's just a huge harmless dweeb. I love it.

Honestly, life goals right there.

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resting-meme-face replied to your quote:Russell, seriously, it’s a huge honor even to be…

my fave part of this is that in their private conversations, steven moffat made a wry fucking joke to RTD. Like, that’s just how he rolls.

Judging by what I’ve seen, if Moffat and RTD’s interactions were a sitcom, it’d be one of the greatest ever made tbh

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I remember that when I was reading The Writer’s Tale I had that constant feeling that Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat should write a comic together about daily life of a showrunner.