True Unicorn Queen

Both of them were pretty happy with the books they wrote. Then RTD read Moffat's and was like, "Oh, this is how you're supposed to do it. It's chock-full of amazing ideas and has this wonderfully intricate time travel plot. Mine just takes place at a department store."

Meanwhile, Moffat read RTD's and was like, "Oh, this is how you're supposed to do it! It's got layered characters and a vivid setting, not seventeen twists per page."

To me, it's just a perfect illustration of the creative mindset. The things that you're good at are always going to seem less impressive than the things that other people are good at. The things you're good at writing seem easy. The people who are good at the parts of writing you struggle with are so much more talented. It's easy to forget that the things you're good at might seem just as difficult--and be just as impressive--to them.

tom owns that prodigal son fan made book (that I really want a copy of idk if anyone has one and wants to sell it but heyyy)

he hopes the show can get a tv movie or something like that if it does well enough on netflix

tom mentions the actor who played young malcolm is taller than him now lmao

tom's audition scene was the scene with the cicadas and malcolm in the FBI

there was a scene involving a horse and a stable that got cut from the beginning of the show

some of the show was originally shot on film!

he says the shaky hand was hard to get right

he spoke about how he didn't expect such great feedback and people resonating with malcolm taking medication and doing the affirmations

he talked about malcolm being rich and how that made martin being a serial killer even more of a scandal

the pilot scene in the morgue was shot in an actual morgue at a hospital

he spoke a bit about wondering if malcolm actually was ready to kill himself at the end or if it was all a bluff