I liked the Redemption Island business more because it gave Candice a possible reprieve; I think that while she's not a great player, she's two degrees better than her reputation as given is. Which is a roundabout way of saying that they didn't need either twist.

This could be very, very good.

Not that this is going to be much of a credibility restorative but Vinson spent several years on Home and Away and was regularly excellent on it.

But he wasn't a fascist.

I'd be a stretch calling Franco a fascist.

I found the opening section too upsetting to continue on.

Tecumseh, you're absolutely correct about Moffat; if I were to give him one piece of advice it would be to chill out and stew in his ideas. I can't remember how the hotel farm worked in The Angels Take Manhattan but I can remember first thinking that it worked by sending the person back in time to a locked room,…

It's pretty much "If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.", then a working through of that statement's causes and implications. If I were to have offered one piece of advice to Anderson, (which…

She's also done a lot of theatre in London. I don't know: she has more money than you could spend in five lifetimes and is one of the most talented actresses around, so why not choose higher quality, more esoteric projects?

This is a really nicely written review.

*shrugs* I didn't think it was that significant.

Yeah, if you tried to fire someone who hasn't committed gross misconduct without warning by way of coerced selection by peers in the UK, you'd be hauled before the courts. And quite rightly.

I'm shocked that employee-protection laws are so lax in the US that this whole process is legal.

I liked that moment too olivececile because it was elegant, with elegance being in short supply on 'Doctor Who' recently; this episode really felt like rock-bottom for Moffat's own run of episodes and the point where my wariness turn to disaffection.

You should read the Last Battle to see what the fuss about Susan is because it's one of the greater instances of tells-you-much-more-about-the-critic out there.

I find it very hard to read her actions as being motivated by much of anything that isn't self-interest. Sacking this new city will strengthen her so she asks its leaders to do something that they're unwilling to do to justify sacking the city; she didn't want to weaken her position with the Dothraki so she wasn't…

Oh, JudgeReinhold, what's the rumour?

A large part is giving the audience what they want: a big part of the allure of the jury being made up of the losers is to see the finalists navigate them. Sue Hawk's jury speech embodies that and look at the traction that speech provided her.

hornacek said it all: Brenda wanted to humiliate Dawn and is smart enough to invent some obfuscatory premise to justify it with. Brenda really sucked for doing that.

Brenda was really, really, triple really short-changed in the editing this series, which isn't to say that she was short-changed as a person endowed with a common, shared equitability or whatever; she was shortchanged because tonight would have been a sucker punch had the season built her relationship with the rest of…