Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you led us into the desert to die?

Why doesn't Darlene know their connection?

Fargo is outstanding, and everyone knows it, but I am glad to see Lone Star get mentioned here. A wonderful American take on Oedipus. Or Oedipal take on America.

Get me something spherical! That puffy jacket over there—can I get something embroidered on it? Something the kids today will think is wicked…

Kinda seemingly tried to deal with and critique England's colonial attitudes and the way the show is implicated in that, but I always wondered whether Redvers Fenn-Cooper in Ghost Light was the show's reckoning with Pertwee's third doctor.

Liz is great

Pertwee's first season is excellent, but very distinctive even in the vast and diverse "Whoniverse'. I don't know for certain, but I imagine it lost a lot of the younger viewers at the time.

I like McGann. I think he's a good actor (I like him in Luther—I find him very humane and empathetic) and portrayed the Doctor well. I suspect his legacy would still depend on the shows as well (scripts, direction, etc.)

I'm not here as an apologist for the Twin Dilemma, but even the worst of DW has its moments. I'm thinking in TD it is Azmael's deathbed admission to the Doctor that he does remember the time by the fountain, among his fondest memories.

"Wo-ow. I didn't think he was going to do 'Moon River' but then BAM! second encore!"

I was watching on my couch, enthralled, and then I heard the voice offscreen (I think "You know I really think you might" was the line) and before the shot even shifted I yelled "Tom" and raised my fist like Bill Murray at the end of Max's play in Rushmore. I may have had some dust in my eye.

And the Doctor again in '96!

Yeah, September of '87 (Time and the Rani) through December of '89 (Survival). So 15 months?

I think that's is a good hermeneutic lens, Keith (lies, levity—Thomas Merton said a jocular lie is only a venial sin)—not to take the line so seriously or rigidly and think about the way real people talk. To cross genres, think of Goodfellas when Henry Hill meets Karen's mom. Karen hides his cross necklace a split…

As an ornery viewer, the romance thing only got worse with RTD's run. The Doctor making doe eyes at Rose? A man a century old making doe eyes at a teenager? RTD saying she's the "love of his life"? I guess if you like your Doctor an intergalactic perv, creeping on younger, inexperienced girls he can impress with his…

I get that NuWho has an arc, so it makes sense to begin with Rose, but it is such a terrible episode, I'd never recommend it. Mickey was so horribly written and then got eaten by a dumpster. 11th hour is a better episode and I prefer Smith's take on the Doctor.

What would have fixed the script? Reversing the polarity of the neutron flow.

"The series had been canceled by the BBC in 1989, putting a pin in
McCoy’s two-year stint as the seventh Doctor (who wound up reprising his
role for the movie)."

Conversely, it is not so difficult to envision Tony Soprano following his suspect into a dark basement, toting that pipe or whatever it was he grabbed. Hell, DeNiro could have dusted off his Capone "baseball!" speech and found a bat in the trash can.

Re: the ME
Sickening to think that one's honesty and integrity can be cashed in so quickly and subtly. It is a plausible interpretation of the facts, but how can anyone say it is the sole definitive one?