I haven't read the article yet. I just never warmed to grown-up Amy, is my problem, but I adore Rory, and I like Eleven and River Song, so I'm still happy with it. I just figure that within the show, I need to believe that they love Amy, so I go with it, even though I don't really see it.

No episode in Eleven's run has come close to Empty Child/Doctor Dances or Blink for me, but overall, I am enjoying him in the role and the show. I like him equally as well as Ten, and find him kind of refreshing. Man, I still miss Nine and wish we'd gotten more of him.

Moffat's quote, I don't get. I suppose I should read the article. Whatever.

I like him equally as well as Ten, and find him kind of refreshing. Man, I still miss Nine and wish we'd gotten more of him.

Agreed on all counts. Oh, Nine. *sigh*

Here's the interview with Moffat, dating back to Eccleston times. [link]

I just never warmed to grown-up Amy, is my problem

I like Amy fine, but yeah, the wee!Amelia was so freakin' adorable that I never quite got over her growing up. I don't OMG OTP-ship Amy and Rory, but they give me warm and fuzzies. Plus, I never took the so-called love triangle seriously.

My biggest investment in the Moffat run of DW is with River, and Doctor/River. I love their twisty, complicated, funny-tragic relationship and ever-shifting power balance.

Overall, Moffat still has edge over RTD for me because he hasn't yet mangled up season endings in such godawful, self-indulgent emo-porn masturbation. The only RTD season ender that didn't make me roll my eyes until they fell out/give me rage black-out is the first season with Nine.

In reading the actual Moffat interview, he seems to be talking about household stuff, like decorating, not all of life. Which I get--many couples I know have homes where the decorating sensibility is basically the wife's.

zuisa,

excellent. you are well set up and prepared. There are a few HSQ in season 3, but since you are properly in the Fringe world, you might not be surprised too often. Around Season 3 I decided I was along just for the ride.

Scrappy, I read the interview too, but there was nothing in it that really redeemed the quote Nora posted above, which is clearly not just about household decorating:

"Well, the world is vastly counted in favour of men at every level - except if you live in a civilised country and you’re sort of educated and middle-class, because then you’re almost certainly junior in your relationship and in a state of permanent, crippled apology. Your preferences are routinely mocked. There’s a huge, unfortunate lack of respect for anything male."

I don't know whether or not to take that quote at face value, and obviously I don't know the first thing about his marriage, but it seems to reflect a pretty sad view of men, women, and relationships that I strongly disagree with.

I sorta thought it was a continuation of what we was saying in the previous paragraph with an interjection from the Interviewer in between:

But it was his first meaningful relationship in ages that inspired Coupling. When he and Susan started living together, he says he was confronted with a "completely different set of life priorities": suddenly there were cushions everywhere. Or, as his alter ego in the show puts it: "Tiny picture frames, toilet-roll holders, toilet-roll ... "

I'm not really sure how one would explain away this quote:

"I don’t know how well women come out of Coupling," says Moffat, the son of a headmaster, who taught English in Greenock before following his original writerly instincts and scoring his first success with Press Gang. "There’s this issue you’re not allowed to discuss: that women are needy. Men can go for longer, more happily, without women. That’s the truth. We don’t, as little boys, play at being married - we try to avoid it for as long as possible. Meanwhile women are out there hunting for husbands."

Jesus Christ.