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.

But the men are all idiots on Coupling, and only two of the women. Was that not on purpose?