Anonymous said: Have you heard about Peter Capaldi refusing to act a romantic relationship with Clara? Do you think he’ll do well, or be smothered by Moffat?
From what I’ve gathered, Peter Capaldi is a huge fan of Doctor Who that pretended to be a huge Moffat stan until he’d signed an airtight contract, at which point he revealed he hates the direction Moffat was taking the show he loves, plans to systematically undo it to the best of his ability, has been openly mocking and refusing the participate in parts of the script he doesn’t think are true to the character, and insisting that they “won’t chase him off this show,” which is basically saying “this town ain’t big enough for the both of us.”
I think the new season of Doctor Who is going to be glorious.
…You do realise that what you’ve basically said here is, “Peter Capaldi is a liar, unprofessional, impolite, insincere in his compliments and difficult to work with.”
Capaldi has never said “he won’t be chased off the show.” Google it: there’s not a single source. What he has done, however, has clearly stated there was no major disagreement over the “flirting” thing (about halfway down the page: “I think that was inflated in the article into something that it never was”). He’s been nothing but gracious, generous, and complimentary about all eras of the show including Moffat’s, and the fact that fandom chooses to believe he’s lying, chooses to believe he’s not really friends with the people he says he’s friends with, has actively spread rumours about him picking fights on set (you do realise this sort of thing can actually have a real-life effect on a person’s career, right?) – well, time will tell whether Moffat’s Doctor Who deserved him, but fandom, currently, sure as hell does not.
(I do not expect this attempt to counteract the most recent spread of rumours to gain anything like the amount of notes the original post had: please prove me wrong. I’m so goddamn sick of this.)