Exactly. She's his oldest friend and he respects her life choices.

It boggles the imagination that a show can spend 50+ years casting around for new aliens to fight, half the time settling for giant prawns or wads of cling wrap with Christmas lights stuffed in the middle, and they've only used something as awesome as the Movellans once.

My first thought as to differences would be that shooting in Cardiff means you have to split your time between there and your home-home (let's say London, for instance). It's probably more like shooting a movie on location and living out of a hotel for a couple years than someone like Angela Lansbury living in LA and…

I think people are being overcritical of the Bill Theme's appearance. Every female companion since Rose has had her music play during her intro scene.

I read somewhere last year that he'd had knee surgery? Don't know when that happened relative to the filming schedule.

I am here for the disco aliens. That CANNOT be all the Movellans we get this season!

I'm not crazy about the show but more importantly, does this mean another gap for Doctor Who?

I want Fury From the Deep.

Sorry for the confusion. In my imaginary scenario, Hines would be playing the Second Doctor. He's done it before for Big Finish and his Troughton is terrifyingly good.

"The audience can only guess as to the accuracy of the story’s costumes
and sets, and there are a couple instances of wonky staging that might
be poor interpretations or faithful recreations of things that looked
just as silly a half century ago. Classic Doctor Who already tends to be talky and stagy, and the…

The dialogue in this episode is falling to pieces. The police interrogation, the bit between the colonel and his trigger man, even Amanda at the supermarket, are all really phony-sounding. This show can't afford that problem on top of all the others. I did laugh at the assassin grunting along to the Backstreet Boys.

Albert Broccoli probably isn't hearing this. He died two decades ago. Good name-check.

I saw Foy and Smith on Colbert. Is there some reason why every time he interviews a British person, his brain short-circuits?

Agreed. It's pretty clear that Landis doesn't know or care about the difference between 'holistic' and 'Jungian' and anyone who really demanded fidelity to DNA probably didn't survive first contact. I'm just watching an absurdist little eight-episode cable thing because I like some of the actors. If I don't make it…

You mean Tobey Maguire. Actually, Wood's working his ass off here and he's lifting his scenes so far.

The Todd's Sister/Rowdy 3 subplot is the only time outside of 80's horror movies I've thought "Just call the cops, moron!"

I don't hate the idea of a Rogues' Gallery for Gently. I don't hate the idea of a holistic assassin either; but it's crazy to introduce one before the audience even really has a hold of what a "holistic detective" is. You're deconstructing a joke before you've told it. Same goes for the gang of guys who presumably…

Yeah, I'd agree with that. He was rumpled and pretty obviously a fraud. But Mangan is comedy-handsome at least. That's what I mean by progressively more twee. It's like one of those drawings of evolution starting off with a caveman, proceeding to Mangan and then to Barnett. The next Gently will have to be a…

Why does every Dirk Gently become progressively more twee? In the books, I thought he was more of a fat grungy loser.

I was saddened to learn that after three years of Black Sails assiduously doing the groundwork to be able to call someone Long John Silver and not make me think of hush puppies…I still thought of hush puppies.