So people are taking Moffat's words out of context yet again in his tag, accusing him of abelism for the Forest of the Night and that he implied Osgood slept with 4. Is there anything that confirms or denies this? I want to submit the link to the post but I don't want to burden you.
I mean, In the Forest of the Night is an old debate, really. Personally, as someone who regularly has to take medication for minor neurological stuff (ADHD, far more minor than anything Maebh had), I didn’t mind it at all. If anything, I kind of identified with it. I hate my medication, a lot of the time. What I take now is better than I used to and it does help me function within the expectations of society, but it does also stifle my mood and creativity a bit. It’s a trade-off. But it is irresponsible, certainly, to tell people who genuinely need medication to survive from mood-influencing or halucination-inducing conditions that medication is a bad thing, because people who are prescribed medication for mental health genuinely do really need it. Personally, I adore that episode, though I can see why the vast majority of people don’t. Either way, it’s not something to do with Moffat, particularly. It’s Frank Cottrell-Boyce who wrote all of that.
The other point, that was Moffat, yeah. It was a bawdy joke in Doctor Who Magazine for how Osgood got the scarf and such, suggesting she knew the Curator intimately. I never got the impression anyone took it seriously, least of all Moffat. And her character certainly was never written as though that were the case.