Loved the two parter. I'm a bit concerned about a storyline with two love interests (three, if you count the TARDIS), especially since 10 overplayed the romance, but… I have faith.

I wonder if the post-apocalyptic setting for video games might not be motivated by developer laziness (or, less cynically, an awareness of the limitations of the underlying tech). Post-apocalypse gives you a complex modern or futuristic setting full of technological gizmos, but with few hard-to-program NPCs (and those…

Yeah, didn't like the I-Leks. They looked more likely to make me a cappucino than exterminate me.

Tom Baker was my first Doctor, too, BUT - it was only when he regenerated into Davison that I became hooked. It blew my little mind, undermining everything I knew about TV by introducing the possibility that the lead might actually die.

Thirteen Clocks
Sorry if someone already got to this, but I *love* James Thurber's "Thirteen Clocks". I must have bought a dozen copies over the years, then given them away to poor Thurber-deprived childen (or adults). It's weird, romantic, creepy and great fun to read aloud.

Hey, I know where the plane sections are. One's in a scrapyardy area at Dillingham Airport on the N Shore, the other's not far from He'eia Pier in Kaneohe. Let's put on a show!

Hey, there's Mr. Friendly, right below Wallace!

108 is the sum of the numbers of our characters - maybe the whole group needs summoning, either in the sense of being brought together as a team, or of being summoned from the alternate reality?

If the island is Oahu-sized (I wonder where I got that idea?) it would take a very long time without roads or vehicles to explore even the coastline thoroughly. Our gang has had only limited access to boats, and even when they were integrated with the Others, I got the impression they were pretty pinned down in…

Why is everyone annoyed that Jack didn't check who 108 was before smashing the mirror? He still can - he didn't smash the wheel itself, and that's where the names were written. Yes, smashing the mirror destroyed an apparently powerful tool, but it didn't destroy that piece of information.

@ Jeff and Andy,

The Rules (referred to in the recap) say "Smokey can't kill Jacob" - and he didn't, Ben did. The blond boy says "You can't kill him" - i.e. Sawyer, a candidate. There are several people Smokey isn't allowed to kill. Why would the boy put the statement in the present tense when Jacob has already been killed?

The blond boy *is* Jacob, right? And he tells Smokey that he can't kill Sawyer? That's the way I saw it. I assumed the rule was either because a) you can't kill signed-on followers or b) you can't kill Candidates.

On what grounds?

I had my "Why not Princess Bride?" post all written in my head, but Bronsonman beat me to it. Does it matter that it's more a framing device than a voiceover as such?

3rd, you're right, of c ourse. I've never quite got the hang of this "lifestyle" thing.

Seriously. Here in Montreal* a really big snowfall just means tunneling under instead of plowing over.

See, this is exactly the reason I voted Barrowman. Makes me feel like I'm getting David Tennant tongue by proxy.

four knocks
I just noticed that the rhythm of the four knocks (as we hear it in the Master's head or as played by the Time Lord soothsayer) is the same as the da-da-da-da of the opening theme song. It's subtler in the current version of the theme, but I just watched the Paul McGann film (sadly bad) and it was really…

Yes, come to Hawaii. Between OTP and myself, I'm sure we have enough sofabeds to go around. C'mon. It's nice here!