So if your grandfather said "Here's where I think you should live, here's the person I think you should marry," you'd just do whatever he said, because of those magic grandpa powers of observation and judgment. Right.

"A grandfather knows"…what does that even mean? Are grandfathers magic? I shudder to think what my life would be like if my grandfather were making my decisions for me. (Setting aside the question of what right my grandfather has to make decisions for anyone but himself.)

I've just been re-watching season 1, with Eccleston. It's pretty refreshing and wonderful, precisely because it's just a crazy man in a blue box having random adventures, without the "raised stakes" that you mention. For awhile anyway.

Sure, Genesis of the Daleks is brilliant, but if we compare the best of the new series to the worst of the old, we get a different picture. I've got my own issues with the new series…but let's not forget that classic Who was barely watchable for YEARS…it became a shadow of its former self in the early 80s.

Well, (a) he didn't ask her what she wanted to do with her life, just shooed her away like a stray dog; (b) he stranded her in a post-apocalyptic hell-hole, which is pretty irresponsible; and (c) traveling time and space in the TARDIS seems like a pretty cool life.

[Checks to see if you're making this up.] Blimey.

Has the Doctor ever been to New Jersey? I don't know…only if we've been told that he has, or he hasn't. We can guess about this, but these guesses are worthless, since we can't know who's right, when the text is silent on this matter. To say that he probably/definitely has/hasn't would involve making stuff up.

The clue's in the name: (g)Ran(n)i(e)

Hence the expression: does a Dalek shit in the woods?

You're just guessing about Dalek motivations here: there's no textual evidence for this (no scene where a Dalek expresses this idea). Assuming you're right, it would only explain why Daleks have never said "mercy" directly to the Doctor, and not why the Doctor believes that it's impossible for a Dalek to say "mercy."…

This seems like a "no prize" approach to the problem: instead of admitting that they might have screwed up (in a trivial way), we fill in the gaps for them. The loose end can be explained away, but still, it seems clumsy to make a big deal out of this idea that Daleks can't say "mercy," when there was another, very…

I think the Davros/Doctor stuff failed for the same reason this scene from ROTJ did…it's like they're trying to randomly push emotional buttons in the audience (feel sorry for Davros…now hate him…now he's a little boy, so feel sorry for him again), with no regard for whether any of this makes any sense, given what…

And…Missy's daughter was a Dalek/Time Lord hybrid, so Susan was part Dalek all along.

Or the other time she went into a Dalek…in "Into the Dalek."

The The is two articles.

That is indeed bullshit. No respect at all, for the stupidest game in history.

Also true of the Band, and X.

Infect me with your CancerAIDS.

I can't even remember that much. I'm pretty sure I saw Ride back in the day, but it might have been someone else (with Pale Saints). Those 90s bands with one-word names sort of blur together in my memory. (Ha, get it…Blur.)

I could watch Morrissey for about 10 seconds, and Kingpin for about 20 seconds, so you win.