Oh man
While I loved Rory in this episode, I hated the treatment of Ambrose. It's hard to think about the first part without bringing the second half into it, but suffice it to say that this season's troubling relationship with women was on full display.

How I dream of one bay being someone's "sex tapir."

If it had really been focus grouped to sell to kids at hot topic, I doubt Ramona's hair would look as realistically terrible and frizzed out as it does when people in real life bleach their hair and dye it purple.

I like the philosophy behind Regretsy, which is about the value of "not giving everyone a trophy," and punching a hole in the "relentless positivity" that has created the idea that everything an individual does is just great, A+ for effort, and worth everyone's time to look at. Most of the stuff on that site is just…

I've always wanted to travel to England to see the Chap Olympics. And participate. I think I'd have done well in the Hop, Skip, and G&T event.

I've seen RAN twice. Once in high school (it was just baffling to most of us, although it spawned a recurring joke about RAN 2: Dr. John in Japan that ran for the rest of senior year) and once in my adaptations class. That time, I really liked it. The thing about Japanese movies (especially Kurosawa films) is that…

No, I don't have a problem with Amy being a kissogram. But it seems to me that her being a kissogram seems to be viewed by the Doctor as some kind of moral failing. The attitude this season is, "How dare this little girl grow up into a woman? I am alarmed by her sexuality, which needs to be tamed in marriage or else…

I think recontextualizing Shakespeare can work - I personally think that the "Shakespeare Retold" version of MacBeth set in a Michelin-starred kitchen worked extremely well. But most of the time, it is unnecessary, and it can even work against the story. In high school, I remember that we stopped watching a BBC…

Okay, but I love "10 Things I Hate About You."

I admit
I haven't seen In Praise of Love, but maybe the joke was about the Matrix being translated into Breton, and maybe not the Matrix itself, because in France, Brittany is considered super backwards, like the boonies or something, and the efforts Bretons make to revive their language after the French nearly had it…

It sounds so appealing in the review
But I already know I don't like this band…

"I WILL make a DAINty garland of flowers etc etc"

Chapter 8 is "Parisians/Peareezhans"

I wholeheartedly support this
I agree that this show is amazing, especially considering Ian Somerhalder who has been just totally fucking nuts the entire time, even when everyone else thought they were in a serious drama.

Oh dang
I can't wait to read this. It's at the top of my summer reading list.

Agreed. I still profess to like MTB, but actually, other than a few songs, I don't really… And I don't think I ever did. My great love for the band coincided with a huge infatuation with some douchebag I knew that really liked them, so when that wore off… so did my crush on the band. I also agree with what was said…

I know it was probably just a "wink wink" line, but when Batman got his new armor and Fox was all, "It'll definitely protect you from cats," I was convinced that the next movie would feature Catwoman. I don't have any suggestions on who should play her though.

I've been beaten into submission by the radio: at the time I hated "Yellow" and could not find enough scornful words for it, but now it's more of a "Meh." Maybe I wore myself out.

OVERALL THOUGH I really like it so far, but I expect it will be excellent and groan-inducing in equal parts, since I strongly enjoyed 3 Moffat episodes from the Davies era, and absolutely detested another 3. I have faith in our leads, though Smith's acting towards the end of Episode 2 was just phenomenal ("No one…

I hated many, many lines from the first episode and the trailer for this season. Moffat is certainly going to be guilty of foreshadowing by way of dropping in arc words, if "Silence, Doctor… There will be silence," is any indication (I rolled my eyes so hard I almost got a headache).