* Under a read more because it is rather long, and a touch spoilery - but completely worth the full read. :)

“Moff!” said the voice on the phone. “Stop writing and get over here!”

Let’s be clear: I have never invited anyone to call me Moff. I haven’t suggested it, encouraged it, or in any way condoned it, Particularly not when it’s THE Moff: I have many delusions, but being Peter Cushing in Star Wars isn’t one of them.  For a long time, I refused to accept it was really happening. But then some newspaper said I was called that, and Karen said it when she picked up her NTA, and when I mentioned my bemusement to my wife, she looked shifty and left the room: later, I noticed on her Twitter Bio, she was ‘wife of the Moff’. Do I look like a Moff, does my smile carry any hint of Death Star, do I –

“Moff, shut up about the Death Star and get over here! You’ve got to see this!”

Okay so the voice on the phone was Matt Smith, and obviously I know better than to disobey a direct command from the Doctor himself. And where I was standing was my hotel room in New York.

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“In every adventure where the Doctor and River meet, they both sort of know they’re going to survive,” Steven continues. “Because they both know that there are other adventures. So, yes, they’ve got that - but they have to behave as if they have free will. They do have free will. But the future is already a result of what actions they take out of free will. That’s why free will and determinism are not in contradiction. The future is determined by you exercising your free will.  There’s absolutely nothing contradictory about that.”

~Steven Moffat, DWM 447 (emphasis mine)