To infinity and beyond

“Under Moffat’s watch the Doctor has morphed from an alien who loves humans and feels their pain and experiences love and desire and empathy to a stunted, child-like and extremely bloody irritating space-goon who flaps about like an injured moth when other people’s emotions are making him uncomfortable. And makes sexist jokes about how women are scary. And wants his married companions to sleep in bunk beds. And can save human lives but does not seem to understand human feelings. Who would travel with this man? He might be zany and charming and have nice boots, but he is fundamentally cold and unrelatable.”

“It’s one of those things that people are very enthusiastic about, everywhere I go, throughout the world. It’s got a reach unlike anything else. It’s just one of those things that people feel very possessive of, and I understand that completely. It feels like it’s yours, when you love something that much. It’s lovely to be associated with something that means that much to people. That’s why you become an actor, to touch people, in whatever way, by telling stories. When people have been so affected by something that they dedicate huge parts of their life to it, it’s lovely to be the focus of that. You feel like you can’t quite live up to it sometimes. You feel like you can’t quite be enough, when people are rather overwhelmed to meet you. It’s not because they’re overwhelmed to meet me. They’re overwhelmed to have a bit of interface with that thing that has meant so much to them. It’s actually quite humbling to be this personified presence of that, I suppose. But, I’m aware that that show is much bigger than any individual’s part in it. It’s a way of life, Doctor Who. It’s a lifestyle for some people. And what a great thing to be enthusiastic about. What a great thing to be a fan of. It’s a wonderful, inventive, creative, morally pure thing.”