OH. Kazoos. Right.

This show almost NEVER pays off its stories, they just do enough of a story to support 20 minutes of jokes, and stop when the runtime is up. It annoys me because endings can be a good a source of jokes as beginnings or middles, would it hurt to carry a story over to another episode? Especially when you have three full…

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I thought the characters in it were very strong… but the jokes were fewer and farther between than in several of the others this season. In general I think Polygraphy has had the best joke rate, a lot of the others have been regrettably very steady.

That's almost exactly mine (although I'm still not sure of this week's one yet, that may come lower). But Polygraphy was brilliant, Geothermal was great, Teaching was funny, Repilot was burdened somewhat by setting up the season, and Numismatics was kind of off. Networking… I dunno. I may have to watch it again, but…

Admittedly it seemed to be going for fewer laughs than a typical episode (the tone is set fairly early on with the whole boyfriend dying thing). Even so, I watched the first 7 and a half seasons before giving up and tuning back in only occasionally, and it's never been particularly funny, and has had some very flat…

I've never gotten that, and I don't think I'll ever get that. For me she's still the cringeworthy 90s pop singer and horribly miscast lead who sank the Sally Lockhart adaptations. (And preconceptions aren't everything; I was dreading Catherine Tate from her awful sketch show, and she's easily my favourite post-2005…

This show has always struck the emotional beats very well.

It felt very much like the writers trying to get all of these sitcom tropes into a single episode, and only halfheartedly tried to get them to work organically. How long does it usually take a TV show to do its 'drunk' episode? I think I'd have enjoyed it more here if it had felt in any way natural and part of a…

I certainly agree on Tooth and Claw (really surprised to see it get a savaging on here, it's one of my favourite s2 stories, and about my second favourite RTD story), but I've never enjoyed New Earth, I'm afraid. The comedy doesn't work at all for me, the dramatic satire is way, way too heavy handed, and I've never…

I wasn't as big a fan of Shirley during the ABED episode the first time round, but she got some great character development during seasons 3 and 4, and rewatching it I think it's a delightful episode for both of them (and their final conversation - 'You humble me.' 'You humble me too.' - warms me). I think she can be…

I prefer NTSF:SD:SUV::'s version:

I didn't hate it, although it is possibly the episode I've enjoyed the least (even less than The Blind Banker). I thought the characters were QUITE nicely developed, but not brilliantly, and the comment I made during the episode when Sherlock drops the flute was 'It's taken the writers 75 minutes to remember what…

One of the interesting things (I think) about SJA is that it is very close in structure and tone to a lot of Classic Who rather than Nu-Who. If you were to divide the elements up of a lot of Classic Who and give half to Nu-Who, what's left would go to SJA. The multi-part structure, the 'team' as opposed to a central…

The Satan Pit double is marvelous. Cheesy at its core, but played so well and with so much intensity it's one of my favourite Ten stories.

New Earth gets a higher rating than Tooth and Claw?

Honestly, I'm surprised that having seen Torchwood you didn't put The Sarah Jane Adventures above it anyway. Torchwood s3 is brilliant, and nothing in SJA quite matches that, but it frequently tops the adequacy of Torchwood s2 and far, far outstrips the shambles that were Torchwood s1 and 4. More mature, consistent…

There's a bunch of pairings this show has done really well in the past, which I would like to see some returns to (instead of always Jeff and Annie, etc). I'd like to see more Abed/Shirley and Britta/Annie (two pairings I don't think we've really seen since the second season, but insightful nonetheless). Plus,…

I see what you mean. I think in general it was a messy plot, which is why people have come down on different sides of the matter. It comes down to who you empathise more with, and I've never really enjoyed a sitcom character having a righteously indignant rant, because it very rarely seems earned as a dramatic beat…

There were at least three idiot balls being held in that subplot, and that's pretty much my gripe. The parents acted like idiots, but Haley was also pretty naive if she expected them to presume she did have a plan. I guess I wound up more against Haley because, well, her character's been pretty much consistently…