You mean, not on your ankle?

No backsies.

For the record, it wasn't me who downvoted you. I think you make your case well.

We don't HAVE an outhouse.

Or Alaska - the freak states.

Now let me ….. let me…. see…

I don't want to turn into the sort of puce-faced tabloid hack who shrieks about "political correctness gone mad!", but I'm surprised by how furious some people are over another white male being cast as the Doctor. I mean, if the character had originated as black, for instance, but been recast as white, I'd understand…

Kill the Ninth Doctor (he'll regenerate as the Tenth anyway), marry Rose (because I'm a straight male, and would find this easier in the long run) and fuck Jack (because, gay or straight, he'd know how to show me a good time).

Eccleston isn't my favourite Doctor - he just isn't comfortable enough with the goofiness and whimsy to suit the role entirely, I think - but I can see how he was exactly what was needed for the relaunch. To have so respected an actor give such a committed and charismatic performance brought serious gravitas to what…

As I recall, the Daleks appeared in the 'Next Time' teaser at the end of 'Boom Town', so there appearance wasn't really even a surprise the first time round.

We'll put you down as a "maybe".

What I remember best is the nice bit of misdirection whereby we're led to expect that it's the Doctor that the Editor is suspicious of, when actually it's Anna Maxwell Martin.

You must be thinking of 'The Langoliers', a Stephen King adaptation that Dumbledore Calrissian invokes elsewhere on this page.

Well, it's always going to be broad strokes, isn't it? I think there's some nice satire on the fringes of 'The Beast Below', and 'Gridlock', and perhaps a few others.

I find it a little unclear in the episode whether the paradox is that Rose saves Pete and so changes her past, or that she visits the same point in time twice. I mean, neither of those things is actually logically paradoxical, but one or the other of them seems to be the reason why those scythe-tailed pterodactyls…

A belated thank you for this. I'd spotted the Coal Hill sign, but I hadn't noticed that Ian was listed as Chairman.

This is one of the greatest comments ever.

Good point!

Oh, I knew the show wasn't going to end with the Doctor's actual death, but I didn't think that Moffat would defuse that threat as quickly as he is apparently going to.

I'm curious to see whether Moffat's actually going to try to tie up some of his loose ends - Trenzalore, the Silence, and all that - and so draw a line under the Eleventh Doctor era, rather than following those threads into the Twelfth Doctor's tenure. I thought Trenzalore was supposed to be the Doctor's real, final…