For a British show I (who have a tin ear for their dialects, especially if spoken fast) hardly had to rely on the closed captioning at all.

Also tonight on TNT, a new episode of Rizzoli & Isles, in which Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander solve crimes using brains, moxie, and off-the-charts girl-on-girl sexual tension!

Also Shark Week keeps rolling on Discovery. The two specials so far have pretty much sucked (too much bullshit) but tonight there is a show about actual shark attacks and one about a scientist studying the breeding habits of great whites in an attempt to help increase their population (you fool! that's just what they…

Yarp.

I would like his return to just be Shauna Malwae-Tweep slapping the shit out of him or throwing a drink in his face in the background.

They should do a spinoff with River Song and Captain Jack having sexy adventures.

….ah, you're probably right. (They should be though).

In all seriousness belief in reincarnation is a big thing for Hindu practicioners, so I would guess they would be strongly represented in the show?

I could swear that the writer of the slate article on Capaldi's casting stole this line from you, @avclub-1e84c47f0f1b5b5c836f71baa52a1464:disqus

Oh Peter Capaldi was the awkward kid who falls in love with marine biologist/ mermaid Jenny Seagrove in Local Hero. I would never have recognized him, but that was a good performance. Love that movie.

He basically goodhearted but he'd like to smash that kid against a rock

Pirate Planet is almost worth it just for the pirate parrot robot.

I can't really fault Janet Fielding for resenting being treated in a sexist, dismissive manner by the show's producers at the time, apparently. I think it is cool though that she has come back into the Who family fold in recent years, recording DVD commentaries and doing audiobooks with Davison and Sutton, et al.…

There was a pretty good Big Finish audiobook that had Tegan and the Doctor meet in Australia twenty years after she left the TARDIS ("The Gathering."). The highlight to me was her getting pissed off at the Doctor over something, taking the celery off his coat, stuffing it in his mouth, and making him eat it…classic…

One thing in Nyssa's favor: she did actually have nice chemistry with all the other TARDIS crew from her period—tight sisterly bond with her roommate Tegan, brother/ sister thing with Adric, and mutual respect and affection with the Doctor. Obviously Tegan & Adric had no real chemistry or obvious connection, and Tegan…

That it does, @Logoboros:disqus , especially when they later costume Tegan  in various tube top and miniskirt ensembles. I think she always looked  dead sexy in whatever they put her in actually, other than the atrocious purple stewardess number from her early serials like this one, which I can't think could have…

One sort of superficial thing that struck me re-watching this was that you always hear that Janet Fielding had to talk her way into the Tegan part by explaining that at 5'2'' she was tall enough to be a flight attendant for Austrialian airlines, which had lower height requirements (though this was not actually true).…

Ha, well why would Tegan like Adric, really? But there is a nice bit in The Visitation  after Adric pilots the TARDIS to rescue her, the Doctor, and Mace, which the Doctor characteristically blows off, deflating Adric a bit, where she tells Adric that she is glad to see him (even if fhe Doctor apparently isn't).

I loved that line mostly because it probably does reflect the mindset of a lovelorn teen these days.

Then I ram my overpositor down your throat and lay my eggs in your chest, but I'm not an alien!