I mean, that's fine. The behind-the-scenes stuff doesn't really change the on-screen issue: Somewhere along the line, somebody wasn't clear on what JBL was supposed to do there, and uncertain, low-energy floundering is worse than just picking a direction — even a not great one! — and just rolling with it.

The subsequent "I know, I know, I’m out of my damn mind, but hear me out," was meant as a tipoff that my tongue was firmly in my cheek, but I suppose there's still enough residual Cena dislike out there for that to not necessarily be as obvious as it is to me.

I suppose all I would say is that I give a bit more latitude when the GM or the commissioner books a special match type, because I take it as a given that they also want matches to be as big and cool as possible. So when Bryan set a ladder match as the official blow-off to the Miz/Dolph feud, that felt fine because I…

I kind of like that there is a core consistency to WWE officiating: What's legal/illegal in a match is whatever the in-ring ref actually sees. End of story. And even if that seems ludicrous, I'm reasonably confident I could find 10 calls/results from, say, college football that are infinitely more…

Finisher, that's damn near his only offense!

Also, that more reserved demeanor gives Shane a certain gravitas. When he makes a point of emphasizing the dangers of the cage and wishing Becky and Alexa luck for their match, or when he points out how great Dolph's matches are, it has a certain air of, well, authority to it in a way that Daniel Bryan's indie…

On the first point, oh, for sure. I'll take weird and shapeless over actively bad any day of the week, especially because it's a lot easier to course-correct out of the former than the latter.

JBL sounded so low-energy in that segment, which makes me think *he* didn't know what he was going for and was struggling to commit, which just made everything even more awkward. A far cry from the all-time brilliance that was the Byron iphone comment, where JBL was in full control of his instrument.

Yeah, I won't argue that Shane was dry as a host, but the dryness made sense and served to put over the in-ring talent. I wouldn't want him on every week or even every couple months, but for a show where you specifically know you want the hosts to serve as sympathetic ear to the wrestlers, Shane is good at that.

Nah, my weird disinterest in Sasha/Charlotte is honestly my own (and even I don't totally get why that feud did so little for me).

What Shakes_McQueen said. The justification for the HiaC match was shaky in-universe, as the show explicitly emphasized the bout as historic and part of a larger validation of women's wrestling as opposed to selling it in the build-up as the only way to contain their heated rivalry. You can certainly argue that…

When in doubt, the answer is, "because the BBC has no money, just zero money whatsoever."

I'll always ride hard for "Army Of Ghosts"/"Doomsday" and "Parting Of The Ways," and honestly that Master two-parter is demented in an eminently logical way, so I'm always weirdly fascinated by it. Can't say much of anything positive about "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End" and the pre-epilogue bits of "The End Of…

Between the Zygon two-parter and "Kill The Moon," I've made peace with the fact that some people (me included) love Peter Harness's writing for the show, and some people absolutely hate it. Even by Who standards, that dude is divisive.

Christmas 2016 Me and Christmas 2015 Me are barely the same person anyway.

Eh, I *guess*, but Jacobi/Simm got three full episodes as heavily featured players *and* lots of previous seasons' lore to fall back on. Same with the Daleks, more or less. Anyway, I've talked elsewhere about how Name of the Doctor doesn't really seem to fit with the rest of 7B, whereas a lot of those Davies finales…

New Orleans and Miami definitely exist, but they're also maybe the two least conventionally southern cities, so I suppose you can "one true Scotsman" that counter pretty effectively.

Well, there's also the bit where it feels like he's trying to set up the Great Intelligence as a recurring nemesis throughout all of 7B but then forgot to book Richard E. Grant for additional dates. I don't know, there's just a lot of weird disconnects between 7B and Name, and then Name and Day, and *then* Day and…

If we're applying the Tennessee Williams standard, New Orleans and San Francisco are America's other two cities along with New York, with everywhere else being Cleveland.

Sad thing is that there are quite a few episodes worth going to bat for there, particularly "Hide" and "Cold War." But there was just no sense of a creative through-line or serialized storytelling with any real plan behind it. Which *may* have had something to do with the fact that Moffat was heading into the 50th…