I hope he gives him some real warmth. Hartnell, particularly later Hartnell, wasn't nearly as gruff as his reputation, not onscreen at least. He needs a twinkle in his eye.

But Missy remembers to carry a dematerialization circuit and the Tenth Doctor remembers how to stop a Belgium-sized hole from getting ripped into the universe. It's a fickle rule!

The First Doctor is clearly getting intercepted close to his own regeneration, so there will be at least that overt reason for them to argue and commiserate.

She had a memorable turn as Data's mom on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Utterly charming.

"What about Clarence Thomas?"
"Fuck his ass!"

Apparently, it was Moffat who wrote *that* speech in "The Zygon Inversion."

I agree. It doesn't help that the depiction of how Spider dies is a bit bizarre. He gets pulled through a new hole in the ice which the creature refreezes too fast and it catches his arm. It's a little odd that he's still clutching the screwdriver if he's still alive at this point, but then the helper fish go at it…

The only reason Colin Sweeney's pronunciation of "Alicia" stands out is because it's the first time he's ever pronounced her name that way. It's one of my pet peeves when that kind of continuity isn't caught on set.

This was a great episode that still holds up, worthy of a re-grade. The critic's comment about how Tina might not be the best character to center episodes around also didn't pan out - she became the glue the Belcher family needed to work together on so many occasions. Tina's also grown so much as a character, she's…

Is Nemesis really more hated than The Final Frontier?

Not in my liberal bubble. I have friends who are passionate about Sanders but will vote for Hillary in the end, and friends who favor her credentials over his. For me it is about who can get the most done. Both candidates would install liberal Supreme Court justices, both could use the same executive actions Obama has…

Whereas DS9 stopped trying hard to reel in new viewers by season 5 and doubled down on serialized storytelling (and less technobabble!). Both shows ended with similar ratings, but DS9 is the one aging better.

I was all about Scott Bakula's casting at first, but Archer wound up being the blandest captain and Bakula's performances had no idiosyncrasies or real charisma to them at all. Even when Archer had to toughen up in season 3, I found Bakula to be flailing to make it work.

…while continually having to avoid ever hearing their species names. It got ridiculous after a while.
I was happy Braga could go out on a relative high note with a focused season 3, though his season 4 contributions were… mixed to be charitable.

The Maquis issues never come to a head and all that setup feels like a waste, absolutely. Seska betrays the crew but it turns out she's a Cardassian anyway, Jonas tries to help Seska for no great reason, Paris is only being rebellious to flush out Jonas… everyone else assimilates completely in season 2 and there isn't…

Avery Brooks still enjoys making fun of that line.

It's actually worse to marathon that episode with "Voyage of the Damned" - when he gets ascended to the bridge by flying angels it's quite dire.
The problem with RTD was he had some really good ideas and really messy follow though. Tennant's Doctor is rather unsubtly going through an arc where his confidence and hubris…

God yes. Talk about wildly different ways of handling a crazy Master. I like John Simm, but Moffat wrote Missy with a proper purpose and Michelle Gomez just nailed it.

These polls are not well formatted - some are split between the episodes reviewed, many others just ask to vote on episode couplets. That's not much fun for times like this when one episode is much stronger than the other.