"leaving him only his martyrdom to cling to"

The vagina spaceblogs was my favorite portion of TTOATL. Agatha Christie in space is the epitome of the Doctor Who formula of adapting existing stories/tropes to the sci fi time travel format..

man, I sure misinterpreted that. thought it was a Wall Street reference…

I'll miss these reviews while you're gone, but I am glad that it is for a good reason (rather than lack of interest/following.) Congratulations on the children—wishing good health to mother and children. Hope you make it through, sanity in tact!

my favorite soderbergh films are "Out of Sight" and "The Limey" but this one was curiously amusing, surprisingly entertaining

One thing I noticed after a few times through this series, is the way the same bit of dialogue is delivered by different characters at different times. At first Geoffrey won't take over Hamlet after Oliver's death because he "is not mentally equipped for Hamlet at this time," and then after Geoffrey drives Darren mad,…

I enjoyed this movie. Now can someone show me where I am supposed to relinquish my credibility?

Good call on Copper Blue

All I can think of is the "too many notes" line from Amadeus.

Nice citation, Potatohead. The series has a lot of great lines (Darren in episode 3 or 4 of season 2 on how he was once a misogynist and the bit about being obvious to anyone with a passing familiarity to Roland Barthes—I mean, who has a passing familiarity with Barthes? Either you are some sort of grad student nerd…

I should add that I love the McCoy era almost without exception, the exceptions being Time and the Rani and all but a few bits of Battlefield (I do like the Brigadier's response to the Destroyer, who mocks him, asking whether the Earth could muster a better champion: "Probably, I just do the best I can.")

That'd be a bloodbath, wouldn't it?

Teagan would have killed him.

Amazing that even JNT had the restraint to get rid of the sonic screwdriver because it had become a magic wand, yet RTD recovers it and goes completely over the top with it being like some Ron Popeil infomercial device ("it slices, it dices"). It became the Swiss army knife of panaceas without a hint of irony.

That's what I was, apparently unclearly, attempting to refer to as the second wrong or the attempt to "undo" it.

Most prefer the 8th Doctor's audio adventures to the one-off TV movie. McGann's good, but the script—and Eric Roberts as the Master—are not.

Love the Enlightenment episode 1 cliffhanger.

It may be his best. It is insightful, incisive, and illuminating while still glowing with affection—for the serial in particular and the show in general.

That's what makes the moment "big."

Their partnership gets better, briefly, before the production/writing team decide to humiliate and kill her. (And then, in equally unsatisfying fashion, try to undo it. Not exactly "two wrongs don't make a right," but a writing equivalent of that moral truism: a second narrative missteps doesn't improve the first.)