Yet another reason why it's a tragedy that they're not going to do the Valeyard as part of Smith's arc. You've got the perfect setup for it - the most arrogant of all the doctors (Tennant) has left behind a clone, given him Rose to 'heal' him, but has made a terrible mistake. Rose will age and die, and the clone will…

Having said that - there wouldn't have been room to make a theme out of more than one of the new Doctor's aspects, and they DID end up emphasisng one that they sadly dropped after that season - i.e. contrasting Tennant's infallible Doctor with a Doctor who ISN'T infallible (very reminiscent of Davison's wonderful 5th…

Agreed. There HAVE been a few great one-episode stories in the new run - Blink being the obvious one - but most of the modern classics (or even just the 'better than average' ones) have been two-parters or even 3-parters: The Impossible Planet/Satan Pit, the Last of the Time Lords trilogy, The Human Nature/Family of…

That's my suspicion - why bring back a villain that hasn't been seen since the 2nd Doctor, and hen use it two episodes in a row, one being a prequel to the 2nd Doctor's stories (showing the Great Intelligence's origin) and one in modern times which ends with the GI very much alive and not particularly thwarted, unless…

I think Milton was actually looking for a cure using the alpha waves - pre-madness Governor asked him to start the research in the hope that he might be able to cure his zombie daughter.

Re: Greene - yes, Who's budget has been slashed, but as an Australian show Farscape was made on an utter shoestring. Its budget was closer to the Doctor Who of the original serial than the modern counterpart.

You're underrating Sutekh - not only is he portrayed as so powerful that his status as the being who made claim to ancient egyption godhood, and the question of his actual godhood, are rendered irrelevant and the Doctor doesn't even bother to dispute it - he simply acknowledges that without Osiris around anymore,…

If there's one thing that the last 3 episodes convinced me of, it was that we needed more Milton. WAAAYYY more Milton. He was a good actor, and played a similar character arc to Andrea 100 times better, both in terms of acting and in terms of logic (he's known the governor since the governor was a sane hero who pulled…

Never got the Dale hate. At least the 2nd season had a strong theme to it (largely ruined by breaking the season in 2, which ruined the Dale/Shane dichotomy). It was all about trying to keep your humanity v doing whatever needs to be done to keep the group alive, with Dale and Shane at the edges and Rick in the middle.

Poor Tyrese. By rule of T-Dawg, you're about to lose your wife and friends. We mourn for you in advance.

I loved the fact that in the final Davidson episode they finally decided to give an in-universe non-decorative explanation for that stick of celery:-)

And all they'd need is Davidson - as in late era 'just before he dies' Davidson. I.e. not the ultra-pacifist Davidson that's there most of the time, but the desperate 'I no longer care about right or wrong or saving the universe, I just want to make sure I don't let one more companion die' Davidson.

I'm less convinced, but also therefore said, because the Tennant clone being the Valeyard would not only match the lore 'not a future regeneration precisely, Doctor, but a version of a future regeneration', the psychology (given that RTD himself has said that the 'growing a new tardis for the clone is not lore even…

They really are pretty much putting EVERYONE on the 'moral/story/justice reason to kill the Governor' now, aren't they? Rick, Daryl, Andrea, Miccohne (could have been Merle if not for this week), Glenn, Maggie….fuck ANY of them would be karmic justice.

Maggie is a definite possibility though - they've been emphasising more and more as Glenn tries to run the place during Rick's crazyness that Glenn really is just a kid, and that he's at his wits end having to play 'the adult'. Killing off Maggie would be cruel, but it would at least be part of a consistent character…

That's probably the biggest difference between this and the UK original. In the original series, it's all about Francis Urquart using his skills honed from decades stuck as a back-room maneuver-man to utterly manipulate and outwit the 'bigger' contenders for the party leadership…and it's brilliant all the way. Largely…

You know what the boldest thing they could have done with Andrea was? To let her continue down the same road of 'Shane morality' that she was on in the 2nd half of last season (which was also the time when she struck me as being most interesting as a character - it was great that you had a character who actually…

I have to say, the more I think about this series' arc, the more I think AV was too harsh on the 2 episodes preceding this (yes that includes 'Clear', which got an A). The criticism of Clear, that kept it from A+ territory, was that it was completely disconnected from the rest of the plot/season. That's patently…

I actually read her hypocracy regarding murder rather differently, and quite liked it as a reflection of Oliver's own rather messed up views on killing - sure, he's no longer the guy he was when he first arrived home and would kill (often unnecessarily) just to keep his cover, but he still kills some enemies and…

It's been well-established that Andrea is not only popular amongst the townsfolk, but that they look to her as a leader - perhaps almost as much as they look to the governor (at one stage it looked like there might be a 50/50 split if Andrea and the Governor had fallen out earlier). Even if he doesn't know it's…