No companion ever called the Doctor out on his bullshit more than Clara did in Kill The Moon. At no point last year can she be possibly be seen to worship the Doctor, really.

I love what they're going with Steven and Connie's relationship. It's not romantic (well, not yet at least), but between the handholding and "Keep your hands off my Connie!"… it's just a really sweet portrayal of two guileless kids who are the best of friends. Really sweet.
That we can have that lovely dynamic nestled…

Pretty sure someone confirmed it as faux-Delaware at some point.

Sweetest episode this side of Lion III.

He was a programming wonder. When Game Freak was developing Pokémon Gold and Silver, they were having trouble fitting the new region into the space requirements. They called Iwata in, and he reprogrammed it so successfully that they had room to fit in the previous game's region too. There will be much said about…

Fuck, this has hit me like a tonne of bricks. RIP.

You want Banana for really good lesbian stories. The second episode has a nice unrequited love story, Sue Perkins wrote a decent one early on, and Charlie Covell wrote one of the sweetest first date stories I've ever seen.

So… what Lance does in episode 1 is rape, right? That guy was clearly in no position at all to adequately give consent. I understand Lance was in a completely self-destructive mental state at the time, but he never gets pulled up on it.

I dunno, the bit where he complains about the mainstream media in his version despite the fact that he's got a deal with an enormous publishing firm in the form of Random House was pretty bloody special too.

It's absolutely astonishing how much less effective that Brand's version of this is than the one that was hacked together from a single Newsnight interview.

That cliffhanger was the worst bullshit. 13 years later, and no resolution to Ax's fate. Young me raged about that one so hard.

I think the man who turned down Star Wars may well be, yes.

Brad Bird does not need to make another Incredibles movie. It's been about a year since the man was offered Star Wars, for goodness' sakes. If he has actually decided to get the wheels turning on this, then it's because there's something he wants to do with it, and, to me, that's incredibly exciting.

I really adore the screwball vibe that The Runaway Bride gives off- all the clowning about on Segways and whatever.

The Doctor, Rose and Jack had a threesome after The Doctor Dances, and you will never be able to convince me otherwise.

I'll go more into this next week, but… that's kinda the point.

Oh shit, how could I forget The God Complex? Cast-iron genius, there.

I wonder what people would have made of the idea that they used in a draft when it looked like they weren't going to have the cash for a big CGI Satan, and had a little mute girl shackled at the bottom of the pit.

Ace is absolutely the right call. They were prepping a script to bring her into the Sarah Jane Adventures until Liz Sladen died.
Beyond that, it's trickier. I liked Jo in TSJA, and I would be far from adverse to seeing Jamie return as an elder of his clan, but there aren't many essential companion returns that would…

Doctor with the Torch absolutely does not work- it represents the very moment all of the sentiment that the episode has gradually been accumulating finally congeals into a big, glutinous mess.