Nah, in The Brain of Morbius they're described as former allies of the Time Lords, but it's made clear they're not the same species. Their alliance extended to sharing with the Time Lords the Elixir of Life, though, and presumably by the Time War they'd patched up their relationship enough to have struck up that…

I really liked this episode. I'm sure I'll have more to say about the story once the rest airs, but Jenna Coleman and Michelle Gomez were both wonderful, and their pair-up could have taken up the entire episode and I'd have loved it just as much. Peter Capaldi was great, too, but he took the backseat for the majority,…

Yes, exactly! I even typed out a paragraph about the parallels between Tennant/Simm and Pertwee/Delgado, but decided I was blethering on too much. Their similarities more than their differences is something that both Davies and Moffat chose to bring to the fore, and it's what makes the Doctor-Master relationship worth…

She actually mentions that's the exact reason she's gone Scottish in Deep Breath: "I do like his new accent, though. I think I might keep it."

Oh, I'm kind of fascinated by the reading of Ian as the protagonist of An Unearthly Child when the episode opens on Barbara, she's the one who chooses to investigate Susan's home life, and it's her we follow into the TARDIS, but other than that I agree with you. But the Doctor is definitely much more of a Manic Pixie…

Technically it's the Doctor who's the manic pixie dream girl, showing up out of the ether to show companions the wonders of the universe and teach them there's more to life than what they know. Companions (particularly in the new era) are the protagonists, the ones with character arcs and growth, whereas the Doctor is…

It was two episodes. And it's… okay.

Yeah, the creators said it's still a possibility they're considering, but Freddie Stroma said it was "unlikely". I'd think any appearance would be a guest role if anything, it'd be difficult to integrate him into an entire season with the focus of Everlasting on a different suitor.

My favourite H.G. Wells time travel story is the one where he's inadvertently involved in trapping an alien in 12th Century Scotland, leaving it to be mistaken for the Loch Ness monster. Well, one of the monsters, anyway. Classic Wells.

Capaldi recorded new dialogue so he's the focus, along with Jenna Coleman and Michelle Gomez, but they're using archived audio for all of the previous incarnations. I believe when you die as the Doctor you regenerate, cycling through the different faces, but I may be wrong. I do know that the environment changes with…

Ah, those are good ones! I was sure there was a DreamWorks animation I missed but stumped myself after Chicken Run and The Croods.

That's adorable! And totally true, probably. Let's hope Disney and other studios keep up the trend so she can grow up with more and more examples that fit her interpretation than not.

I don't know your daughter's taste/age so I don't know how suitable they are, but some good animated movies with a "nerdy" female protagonist off the top of my head are Inside Out, Lilo & Stitch, and Coraline. It's… not a long list, sadly. But if you're looking for some non-Ghibli animated movies about independent…

She spends 95% of her time on twitter discussing sports, politics, her charity work, and just goofing off with people and I've never seen any coverage of those tweets, it just doesn't seem like a calculated move on her part to also respond to fans when they ask about her books (and she answers questions about her non-P…

When I was younger I couldn't wrap my head around movies and TV shows that were set in the past. Like, I understood they were fiction, but the idea of the people on-screen not actually living in the time period portrayed was apparently a step too far for little me, and I rationalised my confusion by deciding…

All she does is respond to tweets asking her about things and, occasionally, release things through Pottermore, it's not really her fault every time she clarifies something that was already said in the past or was already implied in the books people act as if she's making some grand proclamation.

She's been pronouncing it this way in interviews for as long as I can remember but conceded it was likely a losing battle once the movies decided to stress the T. This really isn't a new development.

She had a few hits after Breathe Me! Although mostly in Europe and Australia. You couldn't go anywhere without hearing Clap Your Hands for a while there. But yeah, she stopped performing in 2010 to focus on song-writing for other artists and her credits are pretty extensive: Christina Aguilera, Rihanna, Katy Perry,…

Oh yeah, I agree, nothing in the show ever suggested they were anywhere but actually in the UK. Looking at it now, I'm 99% sure the only reason I wrote that reply was to point out they shot entirely in Vancouver and how seamless it was most of the time, but then I couched it in a whole lot of other rambling to make it…

If Dreamland is the international title of Utopia you might also enjoy The Hollowmen (2008), which is from the same writing/directing/production team, about a group of incompetent policy advisors to the Prime Minister who are trying to get him re-elected. I've been meaning to rewatch it since Utopia started up again,…