Watching MD or not depends on what you like.  S1 & S2 were campy, team-based, monster of the week shows, with a mix of light and dark, humor and drama, nothing too stellar, but often amusing (or stupidly amusing).  Those seasons had a thread of hope and "we can make things better" running through them, and kind of…

But RTD's been the one overseeing/rewriting the scripts all along, AND it's not like he wrote the scripts on spec and *then* tried to sell them as a 5-ep series.  As I understand it from reading Jane Espenson's tweets and Ask Jane series on AfterElton the writers were all together from the beginning, discussing the…

See my post a bit above re based on the baby's apparent age. MD should have begun around December 2010 *if* MD and COE take place in the same universe.

Can't help on the Dr. Who timeline, but *if* we assume that COE and MD take place in the same universe, COE shows a September 2009 newspaper, when Gwen's about 3 weeks pregnant.  Say she's a month by the end of the main action.  COE ends "6 months later", so she's 7 months then, in late March 2010.  Baby would be born…