One more Doctor Who thing...

I nicked this from the TWOP forums, because it's so insightful and an example of how much people THINK about the Doctor.

"I posted this way back when on one of the Ten threads, after I watched "The Girl in the Fireplace" while listening to Steve Moffat's commentary. (Highly recommended, by the way.) Nobody picked up on it, so I'm repeating some of it here now that I've got an excuse.

• He said one of the tricky things about writing the Doctor is that he never expresses what he's feeling. He obviously has an inner life, but you have to reflect that in the lines of other people.
  
• He talked about the old idea that the Doctor is asexual. He said that's not the case--that the Doctor picks up on sexual tension and sexual situations and appreciates erotic beauty. But, despite "obviously being in love and fancying" Rose, he's made a very definite--and for some reason, easy--decision that he's not going anywhere near that with ANYbody right now. He (Moffat) sounded like he's not sure why, and that that's one of the intriguing things about the character.
• Finally, Moffat said there's an interesting contradiction in the way writers treat the Doctor and sex. He referred back to "The Doctor Dances," and said both he and other writers have written the Doctor as kind of shy and self-conscious and bumbling in sexual moments. On the other hand, RTD makes him an outrageous flirt, "possibly because RTD himself is such an outrageous flirt!" He said he hasn't figured out how, but it somehow works to have both versions show up in the same season."