I thought the episode was rather splendid. Upvoted for your larger point.

"The End of Time" is the worst episode of Doctor Who since the show's return—worse than paving stone blowjobs, worse than farting aliens, worse than kukaberra sitting in his fucking Olympic gum tree. It was bad.

"Ashildr?"
"Gesundheit!"

Ice Mrs. Butterworth knocked me out of "The Snowmen,: as did the power of crying children to melt the GI's foot soldiers. I rather liked this one.

Thirteen.

Once a psychopath, always a psychopath—Mels lives and I found it delightful.

Put me in the camp that thoroughly enjoyed not just the special but also the revelation that Mels lives on in River, that her taunting the Dalek before "it died" in "The Big Bang" was her M.O. when dealing with ANY being of sufficient evil. River was and always will be the Doctor's psychopath and I think it's…

Yeah, that was… a mistake.

Sorry about the mess…

More like high five rounds, rapid! Amirite, ladies?

I love it when somebody points out something like this and I say, "Wait, I didn't even not—yaeh, WTF?"

As 11 points out, 10 had vanity issues. And his recasting regeneration as death was an interesting take—I always saw it that way, which means the Time Lords murdered 2.

Davies was good. Moffat is better.

Hmmmm. UNIT was responsible for scraping enough of the surface tech to make the crude time machine, I thought. Really, all I see Rose doing once she crossed over from Pete's World was convincing Donna to put time back on track. Not denigrating Rose all that much—the Bad Wolf message does prod the Doctor to return to…

How old is Maisie Williams? Because a lot of fan-fic will involve the words "glistening," "swollen," "throbbing" and "twitching." If Ms. Williams is under-age, those words will have to describe a Kaled mutant or something. Otherwise, you put us a ll on FBI and Interpol watch lists.

Yes, but the third Slitheen episode is actually good. (The two-parter was shite, though.)

Rose seems quite heroic in "Turn Left" but the heroism is all Donna. Rose is just an exposition dispensing machine disguised as fan service (or is it the other way around?). Among all the assembled companions and quasi-companions in the two episodes following, Rose arguably does the LEAST to affect the story.

I think it's more that the Cardassians were preparing for the war that MIGHT result as their treaty violations grow more and more bold. The war with the Klingons was not their idea, btw—the Changelings took advantage of a new Cardassian government, a liberalized one, to prod the Klingons into invading under the excuse…

Fair enough. Good thing I wasn't trekkie douche enough to make something of it.

A GOOD Dalek, as Rusty tells us.