Treme is not as good as The Wire and Mad Men is not as good as The Sopranos (I'm thinking of the Matthew Weiner connection) but both shows are still among the best on the tube right now. Good enough for me.

Spoilers look up a seventeen-year-old girl's skirt!

Hmmm. I hadn't given it much thought but yeah, that is kinda creepy—especially given the Doctor's "I rather love you." But you know what? That the Doctor so assiduously praises a race that produced the real Dr. Mengele is scarier still.

@Eponymous: The scene after the intervention, when Chris is in the hospital, has one of my favorite Tony laugh lines: "He was wearing socks."

I believe Moffat was especially fond of Davison.

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Nice call back to Peter Davison, that.

I got the impression, though, that the dissection was not painful, just disturbing, and the scientist did stitch him back up all nice.

I was rather fond of this show as a kid and Bellisario is has a tone-perfect handle on straight guy camp. Neat to see it being exhumed.

Cookie, imaging you saying "not have same constraints" made my day. You are good enough for me any day, my friend.

She's hot!

To make my initial point clear: I'm saying that all the "she would be hot if she wasn't such a bitch" talk about Heigl is silly bloviating. Most of us would happily tolerate—at least for a time—a woman 75% as hot and 150% as bitchy because, for men and women both, personality is an afterthought. Most men are just…

Warren, you're the one who started in with the insults and baseless assumptions. I'm just setting you straight.

Smith's Doctor has one of the most terrifying lines I've ever heard a Doctor utter and the actor nailed the reading. In "The 11th Hour," when Amelia says he's lucky not even to have an aunt, he says—portentously—"I know." Granted, this was right after the events of 'The End of Time" but it was the first time we'd…

I meant to type "does NOT make me cool." Fact is, I give very little care to my coolness. I just like pussy.

As you wish.

I love how Moffatt has said he wants us to feel we never quite know what The Doctor is thinking. In his own way, Smith's Doctor is scarier even than Eccleston's.

I think the shock is when the world of the TARDIS is revealed to be just as false. We're supposed to think we know which world is fake so that it comes as a shock that both are. The episode is essentially telling us it is immune to iocaine.

Thing is, you never know when the error is the result genuine ignorance or of the writer, going on auto-pilot, calling up the wrong homophone on his memory bank as he types.

I'm enough of an old school geek to think it was The Valeyard and I guess it sorta kinda almost was, no?

Oh, and Warren, I didn't call you a loser. I called you a bitch, albeit a refined belle of one.