To her it sounds Sweetie McTimeypants.

He's trying to make it serious not so much important, and also build a world.
I like RTD's run fine, but far too much seemed like he had no bloody idea what it all added up to.

That makes Withnail even more amazing.

I like it too.
Worst finale? I'm still going End Of Time there.

That makes sense. I feel we should all send our sensible ideas to Mr.Moffat and say 'look it ain't hard snookums'.

Saying it could all happen offscreen isn't an excuse. The show should be able to make itself clear much better than that and not targeted only to people (like me) who absorb anything Who.
Casual viewers should get it. All it takes is some mild retconning to make the GI responsible for more than we know.

I don't , but will now.

Me too, alas, I would guess budget played a part, and time too. As you say it bloody needed to be a two parter that way.
Part 1 is dealing with this, Part 2 deals with Clara setting things right and maybe encountering various incarnations etc.
That's how I'd have done it and as a added fun that would truly tie into the…

I suppose it could be a way of preventing the TARDIS being sorts of random and faulty back in the old series, but that's not really a problem the first incarnation had.

Amy also had a degree of bitterness , at least at the beginning, at how she felt he dicked her around. She's also much more a tough cookie.

This will no doubt change now. They can't very well keep Clara the same personality after this, and I'm anxious to see how already.

Yeppers, and I'm willing to indulge the idea of time moving at a much different pace than where she normally is, but I'd like knowing in some way what the hell that entails.

lol I saw that this afternoon.

So it goes…McGann was the first incarnation that got sucked into the Time War, somehow got killed, Hurt's was a regeneration who may have created the time lock (and regenerated doing it) and then turned up as Eccleston?

Which makes Smith the 12th Doctor then? Guess that's interesting in and of itself for when Smith leaves the role.

THIS, THIS, THIS. Thank you m'dear for articulating my problems so much better than I could.
I like Clara, but I was hoping that moment was sold as more of a sacrifice for her. Like she would give her life for this and scattering herself and giving herself to the timestream. That would have moved me to tears if they'd…

That's what I want to find out.

Agree Scrawler. Or at least more of her reacting to her knowing it at last. 
There was a lack of exploring the concept of Clara.

The Silence could be fascinating and terrifying. Could be anyway.

I love Who most of all when it nudges and winks at the audience.