I've been firmly entrenched in the anti-"Tree Of Life" camp since I saw it, mainly because of this aesthetically loaded approach. Having watched a few cursory BBC documentaries I'd seen any of the "amazing" footage before, but my big problem was the emotional disconnect I felt.

I feel like this episode was better (despite the fact that the actors are clearly being goaded into being terrible through lingering looks by directors who can't even operate a camera) than previous ones because it did face up to something and actually let Gemma know the truth. Is it a cop-out to then kill her? Only…

I have truly never seen any trailer so perfectly encapsulate every single mistake that network television has made in the past ten years.

Well it was shooting the Tessalecter (or not) that was related to the paradox. So that was the thing she had to touch.

She's actually two midgets in a trenchcoat.

So THAT'S why my unpopular bistro has been hauled in by the IRS.

Yeah. I feel like Moffatt gets a barrage of criticism because he brought Who out of the sci-fi bubble it previously existed in. By which I mean people are now angry about hand-waving, story arcs and character decisions that don't make emotional sense.

That's 8 out of a possible 10 stars. Certainly very good, but she tried to kill me at one point and has a tendency to wear jodhpurs.

I liked it until he fell over in pain. Like, yes make him badass enough to fight off the agony, but don't make him stupid enough to think he can overcome it. I know it was a set-up for Amy saving him (and loved her invitation to get married) but could he have killed a few Silence before succumbing?

That suit annoyed me no end, mainly because she was wearing pretty much the same thing when she was kidnapped by the Silence in Day Of The Moon. So I was waiting for the other well-appointed black shoe to drop.

LOST finale > BSG finale.

I'm not sure "nailing us over the head" is a phrase.

It wasn't explicitly WHY I enjoyed last year's special, but I did thoroughly enjoy it not being on Earth. That it dove in on itself by basically becoming A Christmas Carol was just an extra layer of delicious goodness.

On why he didn't call him at an earlier time, I got the impression from the nurse that he never visited (the reference to him having a drink waiting, just in case). So if the Doctor never visited, then by calling and confirming that fact he couldn't have. Similar to Amy being stuck in time because the Doctor and Rory…

But they're still fucking, right?

Also can't imagine River being the kind of woman who'd let a lack of sex organs prevent her from having sex. He does have ten fingers, after all, and if it's good enough for Julianna Marguiles in The Good Wife season premiere, then it's good enough for Alex Kingston.

It's a straight-to-TV sequel to Step Up 3-D.

SNAKE? SNAKE?! SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!

Secondededed! Also, also thanks for the reviews. The AV Club is stockpiling a worthy filofax of TV critiques of shows that aired before TV critiques were a thing.

Not that I wouldn't have paid to watch thirty minutes of him jamming a paper clip into his retina.