Moffat: Matt Smith as Doctor Who “both clumsy and garlic”!

… At least according to YouTube’s new transcription service.

On it’s own, this is a fine interview with Steven Moffat, the new show runner for Doctor Who. The BBC will be starting a new season with a new Doctor in a couple of weeks and yadda, yadda because everybody knows THAT already.

But if you go to the YouTube page proper, click the little “CC” button at the bottom of the frame and activate the “Transcribe Audio” feature, you will find yourself privy to a whole mess of previously unknown info about the Timelord’s upcoming travels.  It’s amazing the stuff this software can dig up. YouTube should just take the Transcribe function out of Beta right now and inflict it upon the unsuspecting world!

I’ve got the whole transcript after the break, but here are a few of my favorite quotes.

As the transcript warns us, please be advised that this report does contain some touched the phone.

Matt Smith talks to a reporter about his new responsibilities:
Reporter : That, of course, means that the new man in the Taiwanese men’s expectations are high and that he’s got some pretty big shoes to fill in the series goes on there. So how does he feel about falling on from someone like and the tenants?

Matt Smith: That is very prudent thing.

So it’s apparently a new day at the BBC. They’re considering the world market and the expectations of Taiwanese men.

Moffat: I think that one of the things we haven’t seen that the on that my home of many months, but it’s at the Yale way when dust storms and absolutely nothing was a really really exciting.

This year, the program will be influenced by Ivy League colleges and will be dull as dirt. A challenging approach!

And there’s this telling nugget about Matt Smith’s unusual performance as the Doctor:

Female Anchor: On toward substance police, can you give us about what max make these gangs the night, and how do you maintain add that is the current King story lines in the wake of a fifty day that?

Moffat: Well, I wasn’t was not going to be like? Gorgeous. That’s the. I’ve seen so many at this is not on the matter what you want but I right now am not a commodity that needs to be amazing. What’s he like? These are some of the evidence shall know ID is that is the best way to describe not. Use that he’s both clumsy and garlic and at the same time. And we maintain a gripping story lines? Just you wait and see! And dying to get back down to that dumb things we could I’ve just seen, but the dollar is up to them I’m worried!

You wouldn’t have expected the Dow Jones to have much impact on a new series of Doctor Who, but you’d be wrong, apparently. Moffat is worried about the dollar and doesn’t consider himself to be an amazing commodity.

Anyway, there’s lots of gems like this buried in the transcript below.