It's the worst episode by a long shot and turned me off the series until my wife sat me down and made me watch "The Alliance", and I haven't missed an ep. since. The biggest problem with it is that it is, of course, a pilot, and has all the problems regular pilots have: everything's too obvious, awkward introductions,…

Yes, but it allows him to make his point much better by having her written and played as a non-stereotype. The idea being that, sure, you can live your life that way, but you have to do so with blinders on, continually monitoring yourself and supporting yourself with stuff that only exists in your own world, and…

Saul of the Molemen was freaking awesome.

I thought the movie was underrated, because aside form the much-too-dirty-for-kids jokes, it worked like the show, playfully pointing out its ridiculous fallacies — Holly can suddenly speak Pakuni, the randomly changing landscape, the sudden intense knowledge of something that will save them even though they've never…

My God, Zoe clinging to that console is one the greatest ass shots in history.

A combination of Spielberg, Scorsese, Fincher, and the Hebrew God couldn't save those two stories. City of Death is the best story of that season by far, but I still have problems with its over-the-top nature. However, as Adams himself said, once you put any comedy into a script for Doctor Who, the tendency was to…

David Maloney
The seriousness of the episode comes mainly from the director, David Maloney. Maloney always knew that the show was inherently Ridiculous, and the moment you camped it up too much or drew too much attention to its fallacies (Hi, Douglas Adams and Graham Williams), you'd ruin it. (There are certainly…

Every time I watch Blood Freak, I feel the need to panel up my basement, sit and smoke cigarette after cigarette in my pajamas, and read from a prepared statement.

TCM Underground is the shit. They just showed Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One a couple of weeks ago. The Apple usually comes around twice a year, too.

Warriors Gate is some of the best sci-fi TV ever.

Absolutely. Terror of the Zygons 1 is right there, too.

Yeah. Very underrated one. I love the use of CSO in this one.

Sheesh: "Remembrance" Don't let typing errors throw off the greatness. It's the best "anniversary special" they ever made, even if it isn't an official one.

Remebrance of the Daleks
Go with this one. If you want to see late-period Doctor Who at its most competent and most enthralling, go with this one. It's a freaking blast.

Nice. You're not quite fawning enough, though.

It would most certainly cut here. Great observation, though. Maybe the idea is she's just too young for slightly more mature Tim, and they tried to get that across via her fashion sense? I assume they tried to create the most "perfect" girlfriend for Tim, to show how much he must love Dawn, as he throws Rachel to the…

"…the Stacey Roca". Yeah, gotta proofread, gotta proofread…

Rachel (are we worrying about spoilers here? 'Cause this has a couple)
Rachel has serious depth, as she's intelligent, smart, fun, hot, and willing to go along with Tim's pranks. She also makes a great impression very quickly. I wanted Tim to go with her, and not Dawn, just because she was so amazing. Certainly, she's…

It was the "Actually, when you factor in 1977's News Of The World (probably my favorite Queen record), 1978's Jazz, and 1980's The Game, Queen released eight B+ or higher albums in a row," which lost me. Are you fucking kidding? News of the World is one of the dumbest albums ever made, regardless of how often "We are…

Dancin' Fool?!!
How could you miss that? Or the BeBop Tango?