Moffat & Gatiss Dismiss Jo Martin Canon Concerns
Moffat told the Radio Times: “I don’t know what [Chris’s] plan with the Jo Doctor is – but the first time you see William Hartnell, he’s very confused… you know? Who knows?”
He adds: “I think there’s two things about canon. You don’t want to break really important rules. Really important rules include the Doctor picking up a gun and shooting innocent people. Or forgetting that he or she is a Time Lord and deciding he or she is human. That would be wrong. That’s just blowing apart the show. But if you can make it fit – and you can make anything fit in Doctor Who – that’s exciting.”
Mark Gatiss said: “Oh, I don’t give a flying monkey’s about [canon]. For me it’s all part of the joy of it, and it’s sort of deadly to restrict it like that. I remember watching the Brain of Morbius and just going, ‘Uhhh… what?!’.”
“I hated the fact that the next year they said the Doctor could only regenerate 12 times,” Moffat continued. “I thought, I had subtracted from me all the joy of imagining those other Doctors. By this bloody rule that came in, that for some reason we all decided was true! Despite the fact that there are many contradictions.”
“Some rules have to be obeyed, others can be flatly ignored,” Gatiss said. [“The Doctor’s] half human, it’s definitely there, it’s not a joke. And there’s not a single thing in Doctor Who to contradict the fact that he’s half-human, not one single thing contradicts it.”
