S5 was a bit Lost like in which clues were dropped throughout the season that led up to the finale. In fact, everything that happened in the season comes back at the end (the plot starts with Churchill unwrapping an undiscovered Van Gogh painting of the Tardis exploding and so on and so forth). Then Moffat got cocky…

I think that's the very first time I've heard Veronica Mars brought up in a Doctor Who discussion and it's a really strange comparison to be brought up. Not that it's a valid point but you have the Doctor on one side and tiny, pintsized, quippy Veronica on the other and the two can't be less alike.

I really love 42 as I think I'm a sucker for the Doctor trapped somewhere stories are my favorites (and that includes Water for Mars and the sub episode). He's always got some sort of deadline he has to deal with as well as skeptical crew members. 42 also has Martha using her brains to help out and then the scene…

I think a lot of people liked it at the time (both here and elsewhere) because a lot of stuff happened and Clara's mystery was solved in sort of a cool way but doesn't stand up to time

Hmmm…I feel like Disquis ate a whole bunch of comments lately…

you could look at it, though, that the overreaction to the Doctor led to Torchwood which led to the disaster in S2. If they had just let things be or let the Doctor alone (as a lot of leaders did), they wouldn't have totally blown everything when the Cybermen showed up. So, in short, it's not on the Doctor but on a…

and it's got what looks like an 18 year old Amy running around in weird makeup

I always hated the "they feed off people's potential" bit because it comes off as just kind of silly

I really like the idea of Martha- she's the only Nu Who companion (and maybe old) who's really brainy and smart and less reliant on the Doctor to save the day

RTD was pretty good at somewhat developing characters and giving them a background so that would have been one thing that version of Torchwood would have had other the real one

a very clever way of showing a terrifying monster without actually having to show much in the way of a terrifying monster

what makes it great, and something we can talk about next week, is the underlying current of WWI and the poignancy of how most of the kids shown were going to be sent out in less than a year to be slaughtered.

which was kind of made up by the Angels being able to talk to the Doctor over the walkie talkie

The names are so similar and the plots so dodgy, I can never remember which is which. I'm assuming Name is the stupid one where Clara jumps into the time stream, dead River shows up, and a bunch of other nonsense happens

He was all set to do Torchwood first, which he saw as sort of a Buffy with aliens, but then they gave him the keys to Doctor Who and decided to do that instead. But there's certain similarities, not least of which is a season-long plot that pays off at the end of the season

anything with flying sharks automatically makes something great

Personally, I think Blink is overrated (it's a typical Moffat too clever by a half plot) hwile somehow think Human Nature/Family of Blood is underrated in that it's as good as any Who episode but is usually forgotten in a list of great episodes. Doctor Dances/Empty Child is usually praised as the RTD high point yet…

Sounds like they just caught up in some of the things a lot of people did, that the show was supposed to much more than it was really meant and upset it wasn't the greatest TV show ever when it never really was meant to be anything but a super gothic police procedural

I grew up a couple of miles away from Villanova during the height of the Big East. It was the only time I actually made it a point to watch college basketball on a regular basis and I remember passionately hating Georgetown and being terrified of Chris Mullin (dude. never. missed). Still, I can't but help thinking…

that must have been Greenwald and he's had something up his butt about TD from the get-go, like he didn't get it and kept on pretending to criticize it because he wouldn't admit he was wrong