Are you seriously going to contend that people who read WOT regularly are *not* going to find out about something Jeopardy-related?

Good catch. Adding him in now.

Nobody should read this. Your instincts are correct. (Though I did slip in some terrific erotic friend fiction in the middle there you're missing out on.)

I do kind of like to think I'm the Bob Belcher to all you crazy Tinas, Genes, and Louises out there, so … yes.

All right, so let's talk about that last review…

I certainly don't *worry* about it, and I'd never object to a well-told story (or even an indifferently told one) on continuity grounds. I just get an extra kick out of the 6th, 7th, and 8th Doctor audios, because the gaps in their eras are substantial enough to give BF a lot of latitude in the stories it tells, and…

I'm pretty sure you can just straight-up call Genesis a Holmes story, honestly, given how active a script editor he was. Or at the very least a very strong Nation/Holmes collaboration.

It's honestly not so much about what "counts," per se, as it is there's an extra bit of fun listening to the 6th, 7th, and 8th Doctor audios and seeing them as filling in vital gaps in the Doctor's story. The 5th Doctor stories, save maybe the Doctor/Nyssa (and Doctor/Turlough, though there's, what, two of those?)…

Right, this is the realpolitik counter to what the Doctor is saying. Which, that's fine, I guess, but the Doctor's whole point here is that tactical gains do not justify aggressive war and the deaths of innocents, especially since (a) there's no guarantee one side will get what it wants, as opposed to face total…

One is, as in the review, that this specific conversation required 15 goes, that it needed to be refined and reworked until it did achieve the goal the Doctor wanted.

My point isn't really about how the fictional character comports herself within the context of the Doctor Who universe, but rather how the writing/directing/acting present her to the audience. The "Inhaler!" running gag, for instance, very much positions her as the butt of a joke.

Yeah, I believe Brits consider my dad basically American on the exceedingly rare occasions he goes back to the UK. My mom's accent is still more English, perhaps because she hasn't spent decades in American workplaces, and her accent gets much more noticeably English whenever she goes back.

Yeah, but I feel like McCoy would at least make the *attempt*. I feel like Tom Baker would just use his normal voice and grin maniacally, daring you to point out he hadn't even tried to do an accent.

Huh, I just read that as an emotional reaction, not a plot-based thing. But then this whole "Clara's already dead!" thing is reminding me a lot of the speculation in season four that Tennant's entire run had depicted two separate Doctors, a blue-suited one and a brown-suited one, and people were going through and…

I'd probably put "The Impossible Astronaut"/"The Day of the Moon" a notch ahead, but they're certainly the best non-Eleventh Hour contenders.

"The Rebel Flesh"/"The Almost People" is underrated!

Yeah, NFET is right in saying writers' rooms are, if not an *exclusively* American thing, then certainly a rarity in British television, though a lot of U.S. Doctor Who fans assume the show has an American-style writers' room (and that includes some American journalists, if the questions I've seen asked are any…

"The Wormery" definitely pulled that trick, though I don't recall the person dying at the end of it.

I know, but what makes it tricky is something like "Tomb of the Cybermen," which is a fantastic Troughton showcase, but also has some decidedly problematic elements. Is it better to favor that story or, say, "Power of the Daleks," which by all accounts is better but also not possible to appreciate in its original…

The *one* thing that would have made "A Death in the Family" perfect would have been a one-line Colin Baker cameo at the end in the cabin, just to tell Evelyn he was there to stand by her. I'm still a little bummed they didn't do that, but it's otherwise a perfect story, and maybe the only Who thing ever that out…