Totally geeky omission: Jon Culshaw played the Fourth Doctor in a Big Finish play called The Kingmaker in 2006. Otherwise, no!

Hurrah, a fellow Marillion fan! "Easter" wins, no doubt, but I'd also nominate "Neverland," because holy hell.

I have two. Frank Zappa's amazing, constantly morphing solo that makes up most of "Willie the Pimp," and Steve Rothery's soaring, note-perfect 90 seconds on Marillion's "Easter."

Man. Christian music is like anything else - 80 to 90 percent of it is terrible, but there's some phenomenal stuff in that 10 to 20 percent that shouldn't be dismissed.

I'm not saying, by the by, that this episode was difficult for even the hypothetical casual viewer to follow. I don't think it was. I just find it odd that this show, more than any other, is criticized for not kowtowing to the casual viewer, for weaving an ongoing narrative that rewards close and long-term watching.…

No…? That's what Moffat has said about how he approaches Christmas specials, but in this case (as he did for Smith's regeneration, which was also a Christmas special) he made the episode part of the ongoing narrative. It's a decision his predecessor made with The End of Time Part One as well, and it hasn't hurt the…

Why are people always so concerned with the hypothetical "casual viewer" when it comes to this show? No one ever worries about the casual viewer even with similar shows like Supernatural. People know how serialized television works. If the casual viewer is intrigued, he/she will catch up. The ratings are fine. I don't…

You should listen to Loveless, though. They got better.

More to the point, how could it release the other ghosts, if it was just a hologram?

They're the Cubs. You have to get these stories in now, before they collapse.

Love for Presto! Yay! "Available Light" is probably my favorite Rush song.

And now I see that someone has mentioned it. Apologies. Still, Cerebus.

Don't know if anyone's mentioned this, but Cerebus. It's a tremendous achievement, a 6,000-page graphic novel told over 27 years and self-published by one of the most aggressively creative individuals the field has ever seen. It's also morally reprehensible, misogynistic and ugly. Yet I am still awed by it.

This also explains why Big Finish only has the license to Doctors 1-8. They are making a UNIT series with Kate Stewart, but there are no Doctors in it, and I imagine they have convinced the BBC that it will not be part of the Who continuity.

It's about to be adapted for audio by Big Finish as well, with Sylvester McCoy.

Yeah, I don't understand this comparison at all. "Everything's a Ceiling" is the only synth-heavy song on this record.

Human Radio. The fact that their single 1990 album wasn't huge still strikes me as an injustice.

Well, yes. He's playing a character more than 2,000 years old.

I'm sure I'm not the only one, but Zack made me think of it: whenever my friends and I are bored, one of us will deadpan, "So….. Manos. The hands of fate."

It may be worth pointing out that at the time he recorded Time Crash, Peter Davison had been playing the Fifth Doctor on audio for Big Finish for about eight years. Slipping back into the part was probably a bit easier because of that.