Ace is the companion who gets things done. None of this run in terror for her.

All the Doctor on Doctor slash-fic overloaded it's logic circuits.

It's charm is that it's almost always of it's time and doesn't predict anything.
We all love the Doctors outfits, but even today they are so very much from the decade they are from.
I don't think it should ever be all Star Trekky and be predicting future technology.

It does feel odd, I suspect it feels so British because we never see it beyond being in Britain, and it seems fairly small as far as worldwide organizations would be.
That and it's led for the majority by an almost stereotypically stiff upper lip british army officer.

The whole events of the war are such poorly pieced together or certified on a timeline that it's nearly impossible to depict anything without contradicting something else I think, hells bells we don't even really know what the Skaro Degradations, Horde of Travesties and Army of Meanwhiles and Neverweres really even…

The problem was that RTD suddenly decided to change that for End Of Time so he could write a story featuring Time Lords, which meant it went from The Doctor destroyed them all to The Doctor told them to go to a corner of space and time and think about what they did.

The whole last Time Lord had been done to death and needed a break anyway I think.
It hasn't come up much in Moffat/Smith's run because really what else can you do with that angle?
Yes sure he probably regrets it, but it needn't be the lingering background element it was in RTD's run.
Nothing's rewritten or expunged…

Absolutely. The way the Time Lords were presented in End Of Time almost makes you think "well why is he so tortured here? They're a bunch of arseholes led by a mad man", which is a little iffy when they're fighting robotic space nazi's and don't look much better.

Whenever the show deliberately seems to aim at younger audiences first and foremost it usually fails.
The old show was much more a children's show, but it never usually talked down to kids, when the new show does it really almost seems they underestimate what child viewers can handle or want.

I saw this when I was 18, and thought it was a bit naff.

I don't understand…

Why do you even eat food with that attitude?
It sort of seems one of those missing the forest for the trees attitudes. Like just a flaming hot curry because it's flaming hot, not because it tastes any good or not.

It is uncomfortable, because everyone is horrible apart from Manuel-who is naught but a silent film style buffoon.
Basil is obviously a horribly bitter person, but Sybil is just as bad.

Green Wing is much, much darker. Black Books has awful yet deep down likable characters, Green Wings are just pitch black horrible.
There's a warmth to the Black Books, Green Wing is a really dark comedy to the level where it's almost not funny.

Try the second season, it's much more like the movies. The first is a lot more subtle and less off the wall.

He totally deserved it.

I can't explain it at all beyond that, except that they reminded me of every really annoying couple I'd never want to be around for more than ten minutes.

The only reaction I got from any of those films was those two characters were awful, and awful together so should never, ever get together and date, or date anyone else.

From what?

Oh I'm so glad. Not that you should have to change your opinion based on what I think, but I do think it's less wipe the slate clean than it looks.
You put that more perfectly than I could.