He only saw it once and I don't think he's ever seen the Davison Guardian Trilogy, so that was just his initial impression. I never realized that people actually argued that was the intent because, yeah, it's pretty flatly contradicted by what is on screen. However, I can understand why someone would want to project…

Well, yes that is the dominant formula in the post-Buffy TV world, and the new series employs it competently. However I, for one, miss the long-form serial structure. Mainly because it provided enough time to set up this entire world and story that one could then drop the Doctor into as an X factor. This allowed him…

What if instead of stopping the classic Who reviews, we keep those rolling and stop the new Who reviews instead? Just throwing that out there.

My Dad insists that the ending of the Keys to Time arc is brilliant. He's convinced that the end did not reveal that the White Guardian was the Black Guardian in disguise, a lazy cliche. Rather, he believes that the reveal was that the Black and White Guardians are actually the same entity, and that it is a…

Agreed. I am also in the pro-"Fly" camp.

Yeah, slowness has never been nearly as much of a problem for me as it seems to be for many people. In fact, I watched hours and hours of the classic Doctor Who series and it never occurred to me to think of it as slow until I went online and saw people describing it as such. I can see what they mean now, but it still…

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I thought early Breaking Bad was great and I don't think Dexter, even at its best, even warrants a comparison.

Yeah it looks like we agree. I suppose I feel that for all that was good about Stevenson's performance and all the promise that arc showed, it was retroactively undermined when it just ended without going anywhere.

I agree that's where the show died. Season 4 was an incredibly lucky casting moment that the writers managed to not fuck up, but it was a spike in a show already in decline. In fact, I think even the first two seasons (though of course far, far superior to the later ones) are sometimes overrated. They were a fun…

Personally, I find that arc to be overrated. Stevenson brought the first spark of life that the show had seen since Trinity, but even that just turned into a dead-end.

Yeah I wasn't too impressed with AoT. It's technically tight and clearly has high aspirations, but I found it to be mainly less successful retreads of elements that worked well in past anime. In particular, the main character's pathos seemed like a limp attempt to create another Edward Elric.

Yeah, obviously. But has there ever been a time with less focus on original screenplays than now?

I have a theory that when this remake/adaptation centric era of media is over it will become a forgotten dark age. A few notable exceptions aside, once all these adaptations become dated in their own right there will be no reason to watch them instead of the vastly superior originals, which are the ones that will be…

Biggest suspension of belief issue in the whole series, right here.

We no longer have any cultural concept of "Adulthood." The hippies won.

You give him too much credit.

I was never big on Sweet Home Alabama and I'm sick of Freebird, but Gimme Back My Bullets still rules.

No, he's different. He was raised by Scientologists. Join me in assuming that he realizes how shitty they are and has chosen not to disavow them publicly only because it would disappoint his mom. It's POSSIBLE.

That's how I feel about much of the Pertwee era.

Though it obviously wouldn't hold up to real scrutiny, in The Invasion and in season 7 I feel like I'm seeing the operations of a military institution. After that point, it feels like some chaps mucking about amiably in uniforms. Do you disagree?