When I were a lad, back in the seventies, I'm pretty sure regen was at the start of the new series, not the end of the old. They could then do a real cliff-hanger of an ending to the series, where for once the perils that the Doctor has been placed in really overwhelm him. But I guess since this time we know about…

Yes, they emphasized it in "Sound of the Drums", I think, but it's always been there. I think it's actually good writing to pick up on something like that, and weave it into the story. And all it was, was a TimeLord's heart-beat.

not my favorite episode
Have to agree with a lot of what you said there, Keith, the two-part end of Tennant era special had to be big, had to be extra special, worst villains ever, worst consequence ever, but it just didn't feel paced right - we went all of episode one with the Master but knowing there is someone /…

Bad time-lord, back in the vortex with you. I do like that the sound of the drums was not resolved when it was introduced just before the Master died the last time. But this set of time-lords look like they're coming back to kick some ass. Perhaps they want to bring about the end-of-time because that was the deal…

Oh, I get it, plot progression. Thanks. I think old doctor could well have taken them somewhere else, or even made them temporary companions, and dropped them off one by one as they find worlds that they "like". But, as you said, I guess he's redefining what he is, and accepting that the Time Lords are no longer…

Hate to be uber-geek, but why couldn't the Doctor just have taken those people somewhere safe where they wouldn't affect the timelines on Earth? I was expecting him to go running back and take them to some far-flung future planet and set them up in a nice life with a little back-story - after all, quite a few…

wow
How did Fergie manage to play a prostitute? That's so far out of character for her, it would have been a real stretch. Unless it was a crack-whore, of course.

ZMF's response to rationalist about the gay bar had me laughing out loud.

Why did zmf get his own post? Because he's interesting and he turned up at avclub's offices. I'm not sure you'd get your own post if only one of these things were true, but I think that any of the frequent posters on this site (you know who you are) could show up at the office for a while and get some kind of…

whither numa numa
What's a pop-song, I guess. Perhaps we didn't learn any (Romanian?) from Numa Numa

Imma let you finish there, Dalek1000, but we all know that Osama Bin Laden had a much better firstie than Hitler.

ok, so for this week's homework, what's the most offensive part of this necrophilia joke:

Nice necrophilia joke, Robutnik. Don't hear enough of them these days. My favorite one was always "I used to be a necrophiliac until some rotten cunt split on me.". It works better in England, though:

Don't know if it's just me, but I just see a slider (unless it's because I'm in the few-hour window), so I can rate something as "all the way to the left", or "all the way to the right", or "somewhere in the middle", but I have no idea what the left and right actually are (unless I'm supposed to be judging the…

And what is world-wide and coast-to-coast? Isn't one a subset of the other? Or does the world as a whole have coasts that border it.

wouldn"t the third act be an alternate universe liar, liar?
or a four-weddings and a funeral? And what's a "modern-dress" Life Of Brian? Is that something that the hipsters say these days?

wouldn"t the third act be an alternate universe liar, liar?
or a four-weddings and a funeral? And what's a "modern-dress" Life Of Brian? Is that something that the hipsters say these days?

I was under the impression that reality TV had really screwed them up. Sure Kate's what she is, and Jon's got his issues, but without a weekly TV reality show and a PR tour, they would have slogged away at it for years like most couples do.

My less than's and greater-than's were removed from my sample conversation, I guess because they made the words contained therein look like html tags, but I have faith in you, dear reader, that you can figure it out.

The one thing I would say about the oblique reference to past tragedy, etc., is that it does somewhat mirror what people do in real-life. While I have never particularly liked it in movies either, I always thought they were trying to reach that lack of comfort we all feel when discussing a personal moment or feeling…