Moo.

"Easy fix: I'll just take out all the male characters, to even things out. Star Wars could be 100% CGI explosions and spaceships zipping around. You're welcome." - GL

1) I wasn't commenting on the value of editing in itself, but on your weird argument: because language is a precious thing that defines us as human beings in some sense, it is therefore important to speak up when someone neglects to put a hyphen in the right place. That strikes me as a glaring non sequitur.

I feel the same way about Downton Abbey. Not as bad/ridiculous as Dexter, but it's been going downhill for years, to the point where I can barely remember why I liked it in the first place. But I started it, so I've gotta finish it, right?

On the one hand, I never really liked this show. On the other hand, I've seen every single episode. I need to use my time more wisely.

I look forward to taking an irritatingly contrarian view toward it, whatever it turns out to be. If everyone loves it, meh, it was merely okay. If everyone hates it, come on, it wasn't that bad.

They're more like those evil baby-faced aliens who fart a lot.

I heard a long time ago that Peter Jackson said he'd direct a Doctor Who episode in exchange for one Dalek (life-sized). Probably bullshit, but I hope it's true.

CALL FOR STREET JUSTICE
LET NO MERCY SHOW
CALL FOR STREET JUSTICE
DON'T LET HIM GO

Shakespeare couldn't even spell his own name: he was an editor's nightmare. Language defines us: sure, I suppose, but you could just as well say that making errors (in speech and writing) defines us, since we do it constantly.

As a species, we communicated without writing for hundreds of thousands of years, so isn't the opposite true, that these small errors of usage don't matter in the slightest, from a species perspective? You wouldn't be able to correct this author if you did not know precisely what he meant to say, so he must have…

This show drives me nuts, but I keep watching…because I'm bad at using my time wisely, I guess. So, count me in!

Not the one where Carl pouts and eats pudding?

Just once, I'd like to see, "I get my rocks off correcting people, so please let me seize this opportunity to be that guy…"

Who "let's" this stuff go, indeed, Mr. Perfect.

Christ. This episode seemed especially designed to irritate me. The characters I can't stand hogged the spotlight, while the characters I like were missing in action. Same basic patterns repeated. Keep an eye on that kid (and that other kid, too), he's probably gonna snap! The community is fucked, again…Group A…

He does say "I remember it all," but I'm not sure how to square that with everything else that happens in the episode. The "bird" solution for getting out of the trap assumes that he can't pass on any information to the next Doctor in the loop, except for little scraps. If he remembers it all, then why does he seem…

They're Time Lord skulls, though, which have…um….special properties…?

I had the same thought. (Though I call it, "that bit of Beethoven that's in Zardoz").

That would be true in a Groundhog Day scenario (where one subject experiences all the endless repetitions), but not here. A billion Doctors died…the one survivor shares no memories with any of the others.