Really channeling her Dina there.

Not knowing the girls was fine I thought because three were basically one note annoyances and the third was a girl Louise basically didn't know that well.

FEI DEFENSOR

We've only been to Betazed once, too, waaay back in the third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation," in "Menage a Troi."

IIRC JMS just said the other Centauri just came from different parts of the planet. Some of them anyway - like Lord Refa - tried to imitate his accent.

Really the best mystery reveal is why the kid keeps asking about his mother, and who that mother is.

Oh yes, they're compatible. That's why Aeryn smiles.

Well I just realized 'wait the kid's back right?' about a minute before they revealed it.

Oh you mean the boyfriend from Six Feet Under? …in that case Doctor Who had um. That one die. Those soldiers in "Dalek."

Nobody died in season one of Buffy, well, except a certain someone who got better. I haven't seen this show's first season finale yet, but I gather the same thing is going to happen.

What Walking Dead and Breaking Bad did is different though. Walking Dead has a mid-season break, it isn't more than one or two months.

He'd know about two words about Earth in that case.

Yup. (I did like Coupling… it's just after the first season I got bored of it, the second felt a bit like a retread. Maybe I'll come back to it at one point.)

I mean at this point in time the United Kingdom, Commonwealth et al forces were in the process of driving the Italians out of Ethiopia, making it the first country liberated from fascist rule. I would have preferred if the Doctor just threw that fact out; it would have fit with the British patriotic theme but…

One of the things I like about this show is it's not really that hoofed as to whether or not an SFX shot 'works,' so long as it can get a good visual out of it. Neither the alien warship nor the dancing on-top of it next to Big Ben even remotely 'believable', but they're cool visuals and the show just rolls with that.

That the Doctor followed it up with the admission he was very glad that line worked because he didn't want those to be his last words made the scene.

It wasn't the 50th anniversary this year. That was last year.

It really worked from that build-up too. All that Harkness flash (and a bit of lacking substance.) When one's life is on the wire, a couple of centuries winging it is apparently a plus.

I am beginning to think Eccleston will be my answer to that question at some point.

Some newbie thoughts: