I'm not an expert, but I think Moffat was talking at one point about how under-recognized Tennant and Smith were for their work on the show, so yeah, I assume so. I think Capaldi does randomize things a bit as he's such a "serious" actor otherwise, and this episode is so obviously a tour de force…

I'm going to assume this is a positive comment about the music, because I do think this was maybe the best scored episode Murray Gold has ever done for the show. Though I don't hate Gold's work nearly as much as some do.

He's less breakable than us! He said as much last week!

I would assume everything resets when a new Doctor shows up — note that the Veil is gone once it mortally wounds the Doctor, so presumably a "new" Veil is created. Since the goal of the confessional dial is to extract that last confession about the hybrid, it makes sense that the Veil would also reset to zero, to give…

I feel like the 12th Doctor has now earned the most badass, awesome regeneration ever, just to balance this all out. The electric guitar better be involved!

Nah, I actually understood some of what was going on here.

Damn. I mean, yes, probably. But, damn.

Pretty sure that'd be the BAFTA. And I think it's fair to say that if Capaldi doesn't win it for this episode, no Doctor is ever likely to.

That sounds about right, yeah.

That's definitely a nice gesture, but this is also the episode where Hank doesn't buy Luann a plane ticket because she's "not family." And I believe this is the episode where he starts saying "Strike one," and so forth?

Hey, let's just let the Monday WOT cook…

Eh, unspoken What's on Tonight courtesy demands I give the top pick to each show in the regular rotation at least once. Now seemed as good as any for Scream Queens.

I do that some weeks, but this week wasn't great for that because so many shows are off for Thanksgiving. Basically, without getting too inside baseball, I've found it's slightly more trouble than it's worth, even allowing for this consistent screw-up.

DAMMIT. I keep doing this. I'll go add it.

You weren't watching closely enough. It's all there in the subtext.

Definitely impressed.

I think this is where we start getting into increasingly torturous parsings of character's agency and freedom of choice and so forth, all of which kind of ignores the fact that the scene only happens that way in the first place because RTD wanted the scene to proceed like that, and Donna and the Doctor's motivations…

I was thinking more of the goodbye scene between Clara and the Doctor than her death scene. That death scene was … well, I don't know if I'd exactly call it "maudlin," but it was certainly something.

When she very specifically told the Doctor that she didn't want him to wipe her memory and go back to who she was before, even if it meant her death … I'm just saying you could argue that that's a fate worse than death, almost by definition.

Eh, I've definitely written better.