Narm!

SPOILERS AHEAD

Thanks to PBS, a lot of us Americans are very familiar with Doctors 3 through 7, though I stopped watching with five (four, actually, but that was after seeing a lot of five).

Alex Kingston is still sexy as hell—though I'd love to see more of Liz 10. This is the age of the cougar. I think she and Smith have great chemistry.

The Judoon and the Silurians are there because the BBC still had the costumes—it was no doubt cheaper to show them then to recreate Zygons or Terereleptils.

BTW, Tony B., a consummate fuck-up, had an IQ in the 150s. He was, by the standards of the test, a true genius.

136, which means he misses being a genius by 4 points. "Very superior intelligence," they call it. In other words, Tony burns at the low end of brilliant.

Tony tried very hard to keep Davy out of that game. After a certain point, you give the guy what he wants.

Tony's gambling problem doesn't go away—he is shown gambling in "Kennedy and Heidi" and he talks about how his luck has improved after the elimination of a certain element from his life in "Made in America." Indeed, I'd say Chase was making a subtle point about gambling—about life in general, really: it's onl;y a…

Notice that snippets of the lyrics to "Sympathy for the Devil" are scattered throughout that episode, equating Ralph with the sympathetic devil figure.

You young pup! You young pup!

It was just that response—that I did not want Tony to be dead, that I thought the show was setting us up for a seventh season we'd never see—that led me away from the conclusion that Tony was dead. In retrospect, it is pretty clear.

No, he

When he was a Gilmore, did he have fast-paced, reference laden conversations with his daughter and a frosty relationship with his prickly mother?

The cun—

Yes, "To save Us All from Satan's Power" established that Pussy had been a rat since Jackie was running things. The DiMeo/Soprano family was lousy with rats. That Jimmy was a rat doesn't mean Pussy wasn't, even at that time.

Note the gesture Tony makes as Gotti "rang that bell." It's a classic jerk-off move and the whole point of the story, so Tony could make that gesture to those assembled jerk-offs (jerks-off?). The story was Tony's subtle way of telling those guys he knew what they were doing and that they could kiss his ass.

Copperhead's daughter comes after The Bride.

I just want to clarify: I never said MOST women harbor rape fantasies, just that rape fantasies are very, very common. That's more like saying MANY.

And nothing precludes Tony S. from loving Tony B. more than Tony B. loved Tony S.