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« on: January 30, 2013, 11:00:52 pm »

Speaking to Australian radio station Triple J, Gaiman commented:

I got an email from Steven Moffat and he said ‘would you like to make the Cybermen scary?’ and I just looked at it for 30 seconds and sent him a message back saying ‘yes.’ But you’re going to have to wait and see how I’ve made them more scary.

Understandably for a writer of his experience, Gaiman knows that the best way to get those scares is the element of surprise. So he’s remained tight-lipped on the details but did let slip that this episode is nothing like his previous one, The Doctor’s Wife, (which he describes as ‘very odd and weird’) and that the Cybermen were not, as we may have been lead to believe, the main focus of the episode.
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« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2013, 02:38:52 pm »

I don't mind them not being the main focus, but I hope it doesn't turn in to something like Closing Time where they are wasted.
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« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2013, 04:01:27 pm »

In Gaiman we trust! I know he will do us proud Smiley
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« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2013, 04:08:50 pm »

In Gaiman we trust! I know he will do us proud Smiley

I'm taking this approach, because The Doctor's Wife was awesome  Smiley
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« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2013, 04:54:15 pm »

In Gaiman we trust! I know he will do us proud Smiley

I'm taking this approach, because The Doctor's Wife was awesome  Smiley

I think Neil Gaiman 'gets' the show as much as any writer. And I totally agree PRG, The Doctor's Wife is certainly my favourite Matt Smith story and compares well with any story from any era!

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« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2013, 03:04:59 pm »

Neil Gaiman has been discussing his episode in even greater depth. This interview contains mild spoilers (episode title which most people know anyway)

http://themusic.com.au/interviews/all/2013/01/24/neil-gaiman-rhys-anderson/12337/
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