This is why we're friends, Steven Moffat.

[trinityvixen]

I may be the only one worried about a Doctor Who movie that cheerfully gives the series amiss in favor of its own, movie-only mythos. That's actually heartening for a change because the people who have some say about whether such a thing gets made aren't frightened of it actually getting made. To whit, Steven Moffat:

"Announcing my personal moonshot, starting from scratch. No money, no plan, no help from NASA. But I know where the moon is – I’ve seen it."

Ooh, I needed that on a Monday.

Comments

[mobiuswolf.livejournal.com]

Oh thank god!
I too am terrified by the possibility of an utterly unrelated Doctor Who movie.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I mean, could someone do something fun with a new movie? Possibly. I won't say it's impossible to reinvent Doctor Who--point of fact, that's exactly what's happened with the Russel T Davies/Steven Moffat Who. Half the fun of each Doctor is in the reinvention. But it's more fun to have it be new-old, you know? It's only fun to see it go somewhere different, not to see it start from scratch.

[ahab99.livejournal.com]

I don't think you're the only one! The internet kind of exploded when that announcement was made, as far as I could tell. So much so, in fact, that Chris Hardwick used his personal sway to call up the BBC and then post a reassuring tweet about it (http://twitter.com/#!/nerdist/status/136252860412342274).

Making a movie separate from the TV canon would just be a disaster. Ugh.