Moffat Defends In the Forest of the Night Science Criticisms
Steven Moffat has defended In the Forest of the Night from its lukewarm
Asked at the Last Christmas screening for his favourite Series 8 episode, Moffat replied: “I think I’d give a shout out to an episode that I think will grow in stature over the years because it’s so beautifully and elegantly written, In the Forest of the Night.
He added: “There were people who thought it was maybe scientifically inaccurate – they’re wrong, I checked with the scientists – and any piece of television that includes the line of dialogue ‘catastrophe is the metabolism of the universe’ as a part of popular entertainment has to be… a beautiful episode!”
Moffat praised writer Frank Cottrell Boyce as “an absolute genius and a tremendously lovely man.”
