‘Doctor Who’ season 8: Steven Moffat waxes poetic on time with Matt Smith

Just in case you were wondering whether or not there were any hard feelings at all between Matt Smith and Steven Moffat over the end of the actor’s time as “Doctor Who,” here’s your answer: There aren’t. The two clearly still get along, and this wasn’t a “I hate you and I want off your show” sort of decision to leave following the Christmas special this year. Instead, it was a “I want to do other things” decision after steering the ship for the past few years.

Now is Moffat waxing poetic all about Smith and his time on the show, but he even thinks that the two parties are going to work together again in the future. For more evidence of this, just check out what the man had to say in a new interview with the Doctor Who Magazine (per Doctor Who TV):

“Out there in the future, Matt’s finale is to be written and made and a new Doctor is to be summoned. Soon I’ll be lying on my sofa, in an agony of indecision again. Beyond that, some day I’m sure I’ll work with Matt again, and we’ll laugh about old times. But I don’t want to think about that right now. I want to think about the best of days. About the impossibility of replacing Russell T Davies and David Tennant in the two most brilliant jobs in television and the fact we didn’t entirely screw it up. About all those episodes, all those monsters, and those stories we’re never going to tell you.

“I will never forget a moment of it – me and my mate Matt, making Doctor Who.”

Now, there is still the enviable and insane question as to who Moffat will be working with next. Is it Rory Kinnear, Rupert Grint, David Harewood, or one of the thousand other names mentioned?

For now, we just step back inside the TARDIS, reflect, and watch Smith’s epic farewell video to the fans one more time.

Photo: BBC One