#and i was like 'cool thought but let's not be cringe and stan moffat in public again'

[fictionadventurer]

I can't stop thinking about the idea of a Disney fairy tale romance written by Steven Moffat.

Because if there's one thing that I learned by reading people discuss his work after his latest episode, it's that Moffat is the last true romantic in the entertainment industry.

Every criticism people have of his romances comes not from his being a misogynist or whatever--it's because he's more innocent than they are. He understands the virtues that drive courtly love. His romances are always the story of a man seeing beauty and pursuing it. Of a man meeting a woman and knowing himself unworthy. Becoming a better man for her sake. Driven to do great things out of love for her.

Our cynical age sees Ben from Hull following Kathy Nightingale and calls it "stalking", when a more innocent mind sees a man driven by love to help a woman in need. They see insecure men loving strong women from afar and denounce these weak-willed saps who put women up on pedestals--and fail to notice the humility that makes a man recognize his love as something greater than he.

There is something innocent and primal in the way he writes romances that calls back to fairy tales and medieval chivalry. Jaded modern audiences that want every on-screen romance to be a step-by-step instruction manual for how to approach real-life relationships will nitpick his stories to death, but they capture something that goes beyond mere fashion and hints at timeless truths.

And that would be perfect for a good old-fashioned Disney romance. Especially because that would require him to leave out the sex jokes that muddy his approach and objectify the people involved, and instead focus on the romance that shows two people growing to love and serve each other.

Everyone else would hate it, but I would love it to pieces.