"Have Not Been the Same" was originally released in the early 2000s.  It was the updated version that was reprinted last year.

I was thinking something similar, but about how they snuck the TARDIS into the Doctor's cell. Surely, somebody must have bumped into while they were building the awesome cube-thing.

I think Rory's human, it's just that he remembers what happened from when he was an Auton, since the two seemed to have the same consciousness (or something like that).

Something I'm glad they addressed (spoilers):
I like that they talked about Rory remembering the 2000 years he spent waiting for Amy in "The Big Bang". I thought they were going to pass it off as if it were nothing, which kind of bugged me, since Rory would revert back to his old, meek self even though he'd lived…

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Toward the end, I'm pretty sure Rory saw them as he was keeping watch for River. That's why, when I heard the zapping sound and saw the light and River turning around, I was worried that Rory had gone and got himself killed again.

I loved Tennant the first time just because of, as Fhtagn mentioned, his running-about and yelling behaviour. The man was charming, but I felt that in some episodes he almost had to make up for the inconsistency of some of the material. Smith's lucky in that Moffatt's writing style really suits his portrayal, and…

The whole Doctor dying thing put me in shock for about half the episode, which is I think why I've not been so warm to it. It was kind of difficult for me to process the thing while trying to absorb the rest of the plot. The whole River speech as she was opening the door to that "Lodger"-control room was pretty…

I watched from Canada, and they also had it.

A family member walked into the room just in time for that narration. I swear to god, whenever someone I know sees me watching Who, it's always at a part where things are so cheesy it's cringe-worthy.

It's definitely something I want to watch again, just because I feel somewhat let down by how quick it all went by. It's not like the end of Davies' run, when he tried to jam four episodes' plot into two episodes, but it's a lot to swallow in an hour's time.

since this is being billed as "the breakthrough season" in America, I think it's just why they're tacking it on as an introduction.

@Thirstin: I think Glove Pond was released with the boxed edition of the book, but I'm not sure if it came out separately.

Saw him in a book chat…
With Adrienne Clarkson, John Ralston Saul and Mark Kingwell to promote this book back in April or May(I don't know how it's being published in America, up here it's part of a series of biographies on influential Canadians). It was really interesting to see what he's like in person. It's so…

@ Thirstin Howl. I agree on the jPod and Generation A comments. Both seemed like they were reaching too far, especially Generation A. I really liked the book he wrote in between those two, The Gum Thief, which kind of worked on a smaller level and didn't try to define something as big as a generation of people.

@Skip. I'm pretty sure it's the latter. The Stray Observations say, "Hurley's Blitzitude revolved exclusively around slightly out of date video games."

Let's kick some…ice.

something something Young Americans

Totally watched the shit out of this show when I was seven.

I agree. Deborah Curtis also paints him as a very generous person, and made him seem like someone who was always looking to please others. I think she wrote that he was always giving things away for free to friends, which is why when he began giving away some of his stuff near his death, no one took it as a sign.

I'd recommend Unknown Pleasures as a good starting point from experience. I didn't find it was as suffocatingly bleak as Closer, but it's still a pretty dark album. I almost needed to listen to UP first to prepare myself for Closer, so if you're looking into albums, that's where I'd start.