Next week he gets abducted by aliens. Should delay him a good 3 episodes more.

Damn it, *I* wanted to make a joke about this.

They managed to keep the secret of The Night of the Doctor pretty well, so it wouldn't be too crazy an idea.

And the Hartnell era is never quite the same after they depart.

Or Jonah, even. Not really clear why Ja'mie has been the character that's been brought back so frequently.

Yeah, I'm pretty confused as to *why* it takes weeks to implement the planned features. I'm not tech-minded enough to know whether that's a normal part of the process, but it seems very weird to launch a redesigned TV section that doesn't include a list of all the shows covered.

I think the issue is that Samberg is treated as a highly effective detective while he acts like a complete fool, whereas the expectations on her within the workplace as much lower, making her bizarre behaviour more plausible. The show is wacky, but not wacky enough for Samberg to work as more than a bumbling…

But given the translations up there, a lot of that stuff is pretty clear from context.

Definitely my favourite.

No.

Peter "Malcolm 'Fucking' Tucker" Capaldi *seems* like he could pull off being mean to people?

This being the first episode I saw of either incarnation of the series, it was something I hated enough it almost quite right then. Aaaaaaannnd now I'm writing an MA thesis involving Doctor Who, so I probably should've cut my losses here.

Yeah, he's also my favourite. Most of that is in his performance, since the scripts during his era were frequently pretty weak. The Slitheen are just unfathomably bad and eat up three episodes of the entire season.

Having just seen it for the first time today, I heartily agree. Walken puts in solid work, but the rest is a disaster.

The issue is that he's taken Ed Weeks' spot but the show hasn't cut Weeks loose to compensate.

Wally Miltzer it is.

I guess I don't need to ask why you're sad then.

After that I don't think anyone - Wolf Blitzer included - takes Wolf Blitzer seriously.

Not really frightening in the sense of sudden scares, more just a series of extremely unsettling concepts realized very very well. One episode in the second series uses a semi-horror setup, but outside of that episode it isn't really horror.

The Waldo Moment is just such an obvious angle for the satire to take, and the character is too annoying and cheaply animated to be as plausible as some of the other concepts. We've already got cases in reality like Stephen Colbert's forays into the electoral system/PACs, so a blatantly moronic cartoon character that…