It is very very touching when people are properly, creatively engaged in the show you are making. It genuinely is. And I say this about the other one (Doctor Who) too. There is no greater flattery than people not simply consuming it, but making more of their own. To look at a show and say ‘I think I’ve got that. I think I can do better than that. I think I could make something out of that.’, that is the beginning of becoming a creator yourself. So in a genuine, proper heartfelt way, I am saying that a fandom is the cradle of the next generation of creative people. That is fantastic. That is amazing. There is no bigger compliment. … There is a weird thing where you can’t really respond to it. You can’t really interact with that, because that’s the wrong way ‘round. Because it is not like we’re there to mark your work and say: ‘No, you’ve got that all wrong.’ That would be horrible and limiting. Eventually what happens with things like that is people make up their own stories their own versions, their own pornographic versions in many cases. Well, what wrong with it? […] Genuinely, all of that response is brilliant and even that, even that thing (porn) is extraordinary, that it has that response. People become creative. […] It’s not dismissiveness or not being pleased by it, It is just… you can’t interact with it. That’s not how it works.
Steven Moffat answering the dreaded online/tumblr fandom question from the audience at #Applelock (via dudeufugly)
#applelock#steven moffat#I really liked his and Martin’s answers to this#this is why I am disinclined to believe a lot of written interviews with Moffat#because he clearly appreciates fandom#he is a fanboy himself after all#and those articles where he does come across as dismissive I feel are most likely due to poor editing
^ Willie’s tags.
The man can be a douche about a number of things, but when he says he respects fandom, I believe him. It’s where he comes from, after all. He knows how this works.