@avclub-acd0ce34e1e973cc95b5a4a588b9dc8c:disqus I've hired a string quartet for my wedding next year. I'm going to try like hell to find the sheet music and convince them to play it to see if my other half recognizes it when they strike up. And to see how many of the guests start to shit themselves.

I like your idea about all the faces for the 50th - that would be great. However, if they do teak them, I think it's more likely we'll just get Ten and Eleven, which would still be pretty cool.

In some circles - basically anyone who had seen Darkplace when it aired. I had and I gravitated towards the new sitcom with Dean Learner in it.

Fans seemed to have really embraced it. It's critics who seem to have been lukewarm on it, and I guess a lot of that is having to speed through 15 episodes in one day - whilst making constant notes and critical judgement, rather than fans who did that for pleasure - in order to try and turn a review around ASAP.

All horses for courses but I found A Christmas Carol to be far superior to any of the RTD Christmas specials, which were often enjoyable enough fluff (The Christmas Invasion, The Next Doctor) but more likely to be amongst the worst episodes of his tenure (The Runaway Bride, Voyage of the Damned, The End of Time).

But Trenzalore is where we have The Fall of the Eleventh. With all of that Silence Will fall stuff. (Plus Smith mentions it in his goodbye press release).

Even outside of the Colin Baker example, I don't think it matters if they've turned up before. I've always wanted Bill Nighy (which would never happen anyway due to his age and stature and all of that) And, when he turned up in Vincent and the Doctor, it didn't kill that hope - I figured they could get around it by…

Surely they'll just change the face?

No he won't - by the time Smith is done he's have done 44 (full) episodes to Tennant's 48 (including the anniversary special). Both had three seasons of 13 episodes but Tennant had 9 specials to Smith's 5.

Ah, that makes sense. So I was right that it began as Simon Says but I've obviously always missed the part where they read it, thought "Lethal Weapon film..?", knocked it about a bit, gave up and said "Fuck it, let's Die Hard it instead".

Are you sure? I've always read that it was based on a standalone script called Simon Says which was then tweaked into a Die Hard film. Whether the writer hoped it would get franchised into a Lethal Weapon film or if it was mused over I'm not sure but I'm certain it didn't start out that way.

Risky! Risky! Risky!

It was closure in the same sense that the finale of Lost was. Great for that current segment (George-Michael's plot and character arc/season six's flash-sidewys) but hardly a capper for the whole.

I've had it stuck in my head for two days now, alternating with Sound of Silence.

I was disappointed Hale's weird screech of "Ma-ma-ma-ma-MAAAAA!" from the trailer wasn't used in the show itself.

The Da Michael gag made me more sad than anything. In a good way.

The Russos are directing the new Captain America sequel, which is a fairly big step into breaking into movies. I'd say it was worth leaving Community for (even if they were missed).

It was indeed a shepherd's staff. I thought it was fantastic.

Bringing back 'Balls in the air' was perfect for so many reasons.

Loved the way they managed to get a question mark in there as well.