Ace had arguably the most interesting relationship with her Doctor. The demerit for her is that most of her episodes sucked and no one was watching them.

This review got me thinking…

CBS.com finally slipped past my AdBlock. Now if I were to watch this show I would have to watch commercials like a peasant. I'm out too.

When 12 insisted that he was not Clara's boyfriend, Clara said that she didn't think he was. Then came the key line: "I didn't say the mistake was yours." 12 disavows 11's flirtiness. That doesn't mean that he doesn't share his feelings.

But how does he eat and breathe and other science facts?

Thanks all for the legal/business clarifications. I did not mean to say more than I knew.

I admit that I could be wrong — I'm certainly not a lawyer — and I hope that I am. But I read that Elisabeth Sladen lost the right to appear in Big Finish as Sarah Jane Smith after her character became part of the nu-Who universe.

Whether William Russell appears on the show as Ian Chesterton or not depends on whether he wants to keep appearing on the Big Finish audios. As I understand it, due to separate licensing a character cannot appear on both.

No offense intended, but calling Clara a MPDG is exactly the kind of thing that led Nabin to disavow the term. If Clara is a MPDG, then the term is so broad as to have no meaning, and it becomes just a way to attack any woman for not being conformist.

I caught the bow tie in his list of past self criticisms. What were some of the others?

If the Doctor only truly became "The Doctor" upon meeting the Daleks in episodes 5-11 of the 1963-64 season — an interpretation that makes a lot of sense — then the back story of 1988's "Remembrance of the Daleks" is even harder to fit in.

As I see it, Ten was Six who wanted to see himself as Five, and had enough of the quirky charm of Four to get away with it.

FWIW, "heart(s)break" isn't so bad…

"Too subtle" you write in the title? I disagree. Rusty's speech underlines the episode's thesis far too boldly. Is there no room for subtext?

Now I am supposed to confess that my pro-Hayes comments were also intentionally over-the-top? I think not. Then only Roscoe Conkling wins.

BTW, Hayes knew full well that history would not be kind to him. When he learned that John Quincy Adams went to his death feeling unfairly attacked by historians (who were mostly Jacksonians), Hayes found a role model and became a JQA scholar.

Yes, Lucy was Methodist and very religious. Yet Hayes worked throughout his career — especially when he was a state governor — to maintain the always-decaying wall of separation between church and state.

Rank? Sympathizer, sure, but I'll have you know that I bathe quite regularly. (Bathe in the glory of Rutherford Hayes, that is.)

Statesmanship is not a simple as your blanket assertion seems to assume. You either work within the parameters available or you don't take power at all. Which path allows greater accomplishment?

No he did not believe that he was excellent. He believed that he had done the best that could be done with the political tools available to him. He was correct.