I'm not so sure about the narrative necessity of 'no safe haven'. In particular, I'm thinking of the kind of innovative story that Romero did in Land of the Dead (the last of the films in his original, good, continuity). It's set an unspecified number of decades after the zombie rising - long enough for the world to…

I actually thought it was going to be Romana, when he said that. 'Left for dead' might be a slight exageration, but he did leave her trapped in an alternate dimension after travelling with her as her mentor for 3 seasons. In a way it's worse than leaving her for dead - Romana already had a regeneration at the end of…

Real pity that Delgado passed away before they could film 'Planet of the Spiders'. Originally it was planned that the Master and Doctor would BOTH be stuck out in the radiation zone, trying to retrieve the crystal that's creating the giant-psychic-spiders, both trying to keep the other alive, with the Master…

My only gripe with the Master reveal, is that it could have been so much more interesting if they went with one of the other legacy Time Lords instead…as in Romana.

Obviously we just need to make our puns more XTREME!!! That way they wouldn't attract moderation.

They should bring in a backstory where various governments set SHIELD up with private investments, so they could stay off-books. Which would then make Hydra's continuation post-WW2 a lot more plausible: by creating an intelligence organisation with the capacity to raise its own funding, they'd eliminated the…

Deliberate, I suspect. Part of their effort to de-Mary-Sue her.

Agent Spoilsport Funbreaker

I usually despise Jeph Loeb, but given what they ended up doing to Ward, and their concerted effort to de-Mary-Sue Skye, his comments during the mid-season break last year about how 'we've had a few complaints, but the audience seems to really love the characters of Ward and Skye, so we're doing more of that for sure'…

Ian Caestacker was fantastic in the Fades, but I have to say, it was Joe Dempsey playing the tragic villain, now playing Gendry on GOT, that made it an all-time classic.

Re the 'dark side / light side' doesn't leave room for nuance:

Final thoughts:

In most shows you can save a poochie by either turning them evil (eg ward in agents of shield).

Just be thankful for small mercies - at least this show is being awful from the start. Not like Heroes, with one terrific season (that was written to be self-contained before they balked and thought 'nobody is going to watch an anthology show these days - better to just let these closed plotlines drag on) and 5…

Well, if it's like the books, there's alliances to be had, and once the Latino gangs get themselves organised under Gus, they might be an unexpected thorn in the Master's side, especially if his enemies see the opportunity for a pragmatic alliance (and once society goes under, it's not as though Gus's crew are…

Ten gets called out for it in a big way, though. Ten's arc is to repeatedly make grand moral statements, which the show seems to agree with until (usually seasons later) it throws the flaws in those statements hard into his face.

And for a break from the 3 talk, there's that magnificent scene from the 7th doc's 'Curse of Fenric',
(world war 2 setting, by the way)

And recall the Doc's reaction at the end of Inferno, when he can't quite look the Brigadier in the eye after having spent the serial combating the monstrous version of him in the parallel universe fascist Britain. Especially the last few moments when the Brigadier makes a very characteristic reference to having to get…

It's there throughout the classic series, and it applies to authority figures generally. You need to remember that his relation to the other Time Lords then wasn't 'elder statesman and last of the time lords', but 'exiled young renegade' (he says his reached middle age, early in the 4th doc's run).

Again, they should have waited a while before introducing Gus, possibly until the 2nd season, and then brought him in once the street gang v vampires turf war starts up.