I *looooove* The Time Traveller's Wife. It's been one of my favourite books since forever and I'm incredibly excited (not least from a vidding perspective) to see it done properly on TV. The book is so emotional and fascinating and wonderful, and the film version they did a few years ago was just...not. The impact it had on Moffat though can't really be understated...I mean he mentions TGitF in that article, but it's there throughout his entire tenure, from little Amelia intrigued by the man crash-landing in her garden (which literally happens in TTTW) right up to Bill waiting at the bottom of that spaceship, and the young First Doctor confronting his older self. It's there in all the Libraries and museums and artists that crop up everywhere in his tenure, esp in S5 (The Time Traveller's Wife is an artist (a red-headed artist at that!), the Time Traveller is a librarian, there's some really key scenes involving a museum, and being locked up in a library) and in lots of other small things.
I don't think reading it would mess with Doctor Who - it's a wonderful work of art in its own right (and one of the very, very few books that reliably makes me cry) - but I think you would undoubtedly notice all the things Moffat has consciously or unconsciously taken from it. But I don't think that's a bad thing.
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Date: 3 Aug 2018 08:12 pm (UTC)I don't think reading it would mess with Doctor Who - it's a wonderful work of art in its own right (and one of the very, very few books that reliably makes me cry) - but I think you would undoubtedly notice all the things Moffat has consciously or unconsciously taken from it. But I don't think that's a bad thing.