Moffat: Doctor Who Needed To Change

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When do you know the time is right to change something? Steven Moffat, mindful perhaps of some of Doctor Who’s recent shortcomings, has spoken at the Hay Festival last week about how he decided to revise the format, the results of which we’ll see in Series 8.

Said Moffat:

It needed to change. One of the hardest things ever to do, is to notice when your clever new idea is now your very old idea.

We haven’t made much of a change to Doctor Who since it came back in 2005. It’s been the same show. It has maybe amped some things up and lowered some things, but it is basically the same.

This much is true. Even though the Eleventh Doctor’s introduction was seen as a brand new show, looking back you can see strong similarities between the 2010 show and the one that launched in 2005: the ability to fly the TARDIS, the Doctor’s knowledge about so much of space and time.

Moffat continues:

I just feel it needs to be a bit more different now, it just needs to be surprising again. We’ve got the hang of this, we need to change it. The rhythm has to alter, which it has.

What changes do you think we’ll see in Doctor Who Series 8? Could the TARDIS be a mystery to the Doctor once more? Could the universe be completely new to a Time Lord with a new sequence of regenerations?

And do you think the show even needs to change? We invite you to share your thoughts below…

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