King Worm had a lot of really solid stuff: both foreshadowing and callbacks to how characters had grown over the course of the show.  And it was a dream episode, so that was basically exactly its purpose: to take the tropes the show had established and play with them.

The vista of Jake and Finn hanging off LemonJohn, with the whole land down below them was pretty cool.

Right. I don't understand the search for allegory, and then the disappointment when none can be easily found.  This isn't always a show teaching lessons.  It's sometimes just about pure creativity, and yet a continuing, intelligible character core running throughout.  The Lemongrabs are indeed profoundly weird…

Right. It was insanely weird, and yet had a lot of wondrous bits and ideas and character development: how can you like/get this show and not like this?

C?  This episode is filled with insane visuals, spastically wondrous logic, and bizarrely wonderful things like Jake's date, and… C?

I assume it's going to be resolved too.  What I don't like is that it wasn't really even _addressed_ by the characters, even when they encountered the Silence again.  They mention bits of it, but never in the context of: geez: did these guys really blow up the TARDIS? And how?  And could they do it again?

I assume it's going to be resolved too.  What I don't like is that it wasn't really even _addressed_ by the characters, even when they encountered the Silence again.  They mention bits of it, but never in the context of: geez: did these guys really blow up the TARDIS? And how?  And could they do it again?

That was one of the best Doctor Who's ever: easily a reason to get someone hooked on the show.  There are just so many great beats and ideas packed into that short running time, with a great emotional punch, and so many lines and moments that pay off.  The one thing you learn when you cry: nobody ever comes… (and then…

That was one of the best Doctor Who's ever: easily a reason to get someone hooked on the show.  There are just so many great beats and ideas packed into that short running time, with a great emotional punch, and so many lines and moments that pay off.  The one thing you learn when you cry: nobody ever comes… (and then…

The Silence, at least, may get another crack on the Fields of Trenzalore, or whatever. But it still bugs me that something as insanely bad as someone blowing up the Tardis and the entire universe along with it was just not mentioned again after it happened.  That's a BIG mystery, and if the answer is that the Silence…

The Silence, at least, may get another crack on the Fields of Trenzalore, or whatever. But it still bugs me that something as insanely bad as someone blowing up the Tardis and the entire universe along with it was just not mentioned again after it happened.  That's a BIG mystery, and if the answer is that the Silence…

Agree.  Amy and Rory were narrative dead ends, and it really, REALLY hurt the plodding, rambling, poorly written Season 7.  But they didn't set up the transition from Amy/Rory leaving/living happy lives alone to "Doctor refuses to do anything but mope about in London" anywhere near well enough.  The review here…

Agree.  Amy and Rory were narrative dead ends, and it really, REALLY hurt the plodding, rambling, poorly written Season 7.  But they didn't set up the transition from Amy/Rory leaving/living happy lives alone to "Doctor refuses to do anything but mope about in London" anywhere near well enough.  The review here…

I've never understood the River Song hate.  What's not to like?  They could have set up the Let's Kill Hitler thing better (by introducing Amy and Rory's friend earlier on), but her arc was still great fun, marred only by the fact that they seem to have dropped/muddled the whole Silence/blowing up the Tardis mystery…

I've never understood the River Song hate.  What's not to like?  They could have set up the Let's Kill Hitler thing better (by introducing Amy and Rory's friend earlier on), but her arc was still great fun, marred only by the fact that they seem to have dropped/muddled the whole Silence/blowing up the Tardis mystery…

There are a few skips in the Matt Smith era.  Victory of the Daleks is a major skip, mostly because the comic timing was still being worked out, the plot is dumb, Amy is implausibly sharp for it being so early in her tenure, and Smith is just too weird and intense.  All you really need to know out of this episode is…

There are a few skips in the Matt Smith era.  Victory of the Daleks is a major skip, mostly because the comic timing was still being worked out, the plot is dumb, Amy is implausibly sharp for it being so early in her tenure, and Smith is just too weird and intense.  All you really need to know out of this episode is…

I'd give the first installment a lot lower than that: the second installment redeemed it, but the first half was sort of dull/irritating, and the Destiny Gang were definitely a lot less interesting than your standard AT villains.

I'd give the first installment a lot lower than that: the second installment redeemed it, but the first half was sort of dull/irritating, and the Destiny Gang were definitely a lot less interesting than your standard AT villains.