His sexual politics are very essentialist, which I don't have much truck with. But while that's come out strongly in a lot of his writing (
Joking Apart, Press Gang, Coupling, etc) it doesn't seem to have reared its (IMO) ugly head in his
Who work yet, so all is well.
Love his dialogue, love his vocal "It's a kid's show!" attitude to
Doctor Who, and love the refreshingly light amorality of his stories - they're never about Good versus Evil, just about broken systems that need fixing.
I've no idea how his skills as a scriptwriter will translate into actually
running the show though; filling Davies' shoes means having a sense of the Big Picture, and so far he's shown no interest in the big picture - just in small, intricate little logic games. There's no way you can extrapolate from his previous work what a Moffat 'arc' might be like.
By the way, that interview has to be understood in the context of the "Rad/Trad" debate that was happening in fandom at the time, especially around the subject of the
New Adventures. And in the context of Steven having been very, very drunk.
RogueModron
That's like Doctor Who sacrilege!
In
Doctor Who, sacrilege is almost always a good thing and the Doctor's almost always the one commiting it.
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