Before this series began you said that one of the things you were going to be guided by was this idea of a fairy tale, and that’s something we can see really clearly in “The Pandorica Opens”. This is about things that go pretty deeper, stories that we almost half remember from our childhoods…
Steven Moffat: Fairy tales are the way we warn our children of the dangers of the world, and that’s what Doctor Who is. Doctor Who more commonly than it goes into outer space takes outer space and makes it under your bed or in the back of your cupboard.
What are you trying to warn us about then?
SM: That everything is genuinely frightening and children, you’re right – there is something in the back of your cupboard!
When did you know that you’d got the new series right?
SM: I avoided the press on the day after broadcast, because I thought there was bound to be quite a lot of negatives because David was so brilliant and so popular. I didn’t realise that the press would be amazing, we got all these responses and I hear “Best Doctor ever” quite often. I didn’t expect it to be, none of us did, that instant. It was just instant, so that was brilliant.
What did you expect before you started, Matt?
Matt Smith: I guess you just hope to come out alive, really. It’s impossible to calculate before it happens, but what we have received has been overwhelming and very positive, pretty humbling and very exciting.
It wouldn’t have got this much attention in the old days…
SM: And that’s shameful, actually. It should have had that attention, there was absolutely brilliant stuff. I hate the orthodoxy that Doctor Who became good in 2005, that’s not true. I didn’t fall in love with that show because it was rubbish, it was because it was brilliant.
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