Is Steven Moffat really all that creative?

**Kane Knight** · 03-17-2013, 06:47 PM

This has been sort of on the back of my mind since reading John Dies at the End a few months back. I'd have to go back and watch Doctor Who and read JDatE again to do anything comprehensive, but there were a lot of similarities. Some were quite tangential, but if one were to pool them up, it looks less and less like coincidence. A lot of the big things Moffat is given credit for inventing also appear in a book that was first put up (in digital form) in 2001.

I'm not sure how big the overlap i between fanbases, but I'm curious as to whether or not anyone noticed this sort of thing.

03-17-2013, 06:47 PM	#1
Kane Knight Ron Paul 4 EVA Posts: 152,467	Is Steven Moffat really all that creative? This has been sort of on the back of my mind since reading John Dies at the End a few months back. I'd have to go back and watch Doctor Who and read JDatE again to do anything comprehensive, but there were a lot of similarities. Some were quite tangential, but if one were to pool them up, it looks less and less like coincidence. A lot of the big things Moffat is given credit for inventing also appear in a book that was first put up (in digital form) in 2001. I'm not sure how big the overlap i between fanbases, but I'm curious as to whether or not anyone noticed this sort of thing. �There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old�s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.� --John Rogers