JPSG—even with your sobriquet you can't bring "Day" off the bottom? I'm not seeing any love for that episode here, and while the realization of the Daleks in that story is weak (particularly their voices—someone would run away before they got through two SYL-A-BLES of EX-TER-MI-NATE…) but I like the episode. It toys…

Manhattan belongs to Leonard Cohen and he would disarm even the Daleks with his cool

"it’s a bit of a comedown to see them skulking around the sewers and
making pig-based hybrids for reasons that are at best unclear"

I'm raising a soft pretzel with mustard to his memory

re: Pirate Planet and Androids of Tara

I think Turlough has his moments. I'd say he was a great idea let down by execution. He had an arc, but it wasn't particularly well (or consistently) plotted. Now I accept people don't develop in neat, straight lines, but in Turlough's case I chalk it up not to subtlety but inelegant craftsmanship. (I guess it happens…

I think we have two different ways of assessing companions—in themselves and their suitability (or dramatic effectiveness) as a partner and foil for the Doctor. Thus, there is the essential badness of Adric, but the way that is mitigated when he is partnered with 4, exacerbated when matched with 5. Same thing with…

Isn't there a difference between

"It embodies the aspirations of the emerging upper middle class, to enjoy
all the hedonistic pleasures of life without any of the consequences."

Sorry for not being precise/specific enough, but your parenthetical expression is exactly what I meant by damnation—her imprisonment in the computer.

Farting aliens are worse than any idea classic who scrapped, let alone misguidedly produced.

Why should he have to defend himself? He was young. Those who conceived and judged the contest and those who "realized" the monster are those who must answer for it.

You cracked me up with "I might even dislike Aliens of London more" as I'm sure we'd both agree that's hardly high praise.

If we argue about it too much, we might have to form our own LINDA…

No happier than River Song's damnation in "Silence in the Library"

"The whole paving slab thing is just too horrendous to compute, and that's before it starts giving blowjobs."

Re: Android Invasion

Yeah, it was in a philosophy class ("Theory of the Novel") that we read "Death in Venice" and I was forevermore "Tadzio" rather than "Thaddeus". Nothing like a pederasty joke at a Catholic school…

I'm the rare Doctor Who fan enthusiastic about Invasion of the Dinosaurs

Build high for happiness.