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“I write Doctor Who for myself” – Moffat in reply to a question about his motivation behind writing for Who

Just gonna leave this here

It’s even worse than that.

“The only way to write anything is to write it for yourself,” Moffat says. “It’s witless and completely pointless to try to think of what other people would like.”

That’s kinda true for writing, tho. Unfortunately, Moffat is a tool.

Basically. I write for myself, to be honest. If other people like it, that’s cool. But Moffat is a dickwad.

Writing for yourself is fine, I do it all the time. However, you still have to be a good writer to begin with.

But who gauges what a good writer is? Different strokes for different folks, as the saying goes. What Supreme High Council is there to determine who is and isn’t a good writer?

The point is, Moffat’s writing for Doctor Who has been hit or miss, and largely missing for almost 80% of the series since he took over. I fell off after Ten because he began writing his female characters into…corners, and then had the nerve to claim he writes them this way because he believes ALL women are just out hunting for a husband. The Companions are one of the most integral parts of the entire series and we went from having new and unique Companions to these boring, one-dimensional, damsel-in-distress types with no real distinguishing characteristics to make them memorable.

Like really?

I think that writing for yourself works better with books/short stories than with Television or Movies. 

With Books you’re creating a world that only exists in your mind and the mind of the reader, you’re inviting them into a world that only existed for you for a long time. If they like it, great! You’ve essentially shared with the world a piece of you. 

With Television/Movies, you’re still doing that, but it’s a different medium, it’s a wider medium and you’ve got to account for that. If 2 million people can’t understand your vision then maybe you need to go back and revise it a bit. Not change your ultimate story, no. But figure out a way to tell that story and reach as many people as you can? I think with Moffat (and several other directors/writers) it’s easy to get caught up in your own head and not think about what other people are going to see/think because they understand it and who else matters? 

And with something like Doctor Who, I think a writer should be showing us a different interpretation of a world that already exists, and has existed for 50 years. 

Moffat shouldn’t be writing stories just for him and that he wants to see, because Doctor Who wasn’t created just for him. He should be writing for everyone because everyone can be a lifetime fan of the show. Old or young, any gender, any sex, any race can and has watched it and should want to consider watching it. 

Writing only for himself, and how he views the world is selfish and it’s easy to see it, he enjoys big flashy stories with damsels in distress because maybe that’s what he saw when he watched Who. But lol it’s not very good is it? He’s stuck inside his own head and since it’s still technically a success he’s going to keep doing it. 

I also think the difference between TV and books is that TV is an interactive medium. When you write a book it’s a finished product, done, complete, in its entirety. Maybe by your third book you’ll be huge, maybe by then you can consider other points of view, but you’re still basically creating a contained world, like the comment above pointed out.

With television you’re creating a series over a period of time whose whole point is to create a huge following (for profit, essentially). TV shows have tumblr and twitter accounts, they go to comic cons and have panels in order TO DISCUSS the show, the writing, the characters. In this kind of open forum the content is out there for all people to dig at, agree or disagree with. It is NOT a closed world in the same way that writing a book is. It’s a continually open discussion and I think the Television Shows that succeed the most, and last the longest, are the ones that acknowledge the fans, are open to the discussion and at least CONSIDER that they may or may not be pissing some one off in the process.