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Steven Moffat interview - Radio Times, May 2005 |
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How did Steven Moffat go about writing his chilling two-parter? The man behind the catch phrase "Are you my mummy?" lets Nick Griffiths in on a few secrets …
On Doctor Who cliffhangers
"I love cliffhangers. The thing about writing Doctor Who today is that every scene ends on a cliffhanger. But it is wonderful to build it up to that screaming pitch, and the series does - this is a matter of absolute fact - have the best cliffhanger music ever in the world. It's so brilliant."
On the comedy of Doctor Who
"In Doctor Who, comedy is a consequence of the horror. You have that peculiarity of doing Hammer Horror in the Generation Game slot, which accounts for its unique tone, in that it runs the gamut from ChuckleVision
to Quatermass."
"He's not a gag merchant, the Doctor, he's just different from everybody else, quirky and with a superior brain making all sorts of connections, which gives him a funny edge."
On writing for the Ninth Doctor
"With Chris [Eccleston], you're aware that he's northern, that he's a lad, and you play to that. And because Chris is very strong, very macho, you're constantly trying to get him on the back foot, trying make him vulnerable, otherwise he overwhelms the action."
On writing an episode set during the Second World War
"I knew sod all about the Blitz. That was one of the peculiar things: that I end up writing the only series in the world I know everything about, and for the first time in my life I have to go and do research."
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Read our 2006 interview with Steven Moffat - or take a look at our full Doctor Who guide.
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