Yeah, I'd been enjoying the show rather than hatewatching it for a while now, but this episode was a disaster.

But then he's so afraid of prison that he has ED and no one can read it.

Obviously Lana and Archer have college funds they have to prepare for their kids.

None-hundred episodes.

I wonder how she liked being in the sidecar of a sinking motorcycle.

Jewel Staite: You're hilarious, Todd.

Yeah, I hated that. Loved everything else, but they'd have been better off re-pacing the actor cards and leaving the song alone.

I really enjoy Donna's reviews (more than the show, even), but the grading for this season has been outright madness. Not that the grades are particularly important, but this season has been a dumpster fire, not a return to form.

Without giving anything away, the handling of this plotline in future episodes isn't *terrible* though it's also not great. Someone really ought to let Fellowes know he's better off ditching the large scale plot points (have *any* of them worked out well? Maybe Sybil's death?). The weird pacing where each storyline…

I'm not sure they really need any justification to keep her around on the show. She's important in providing the back-and-forth with the Dowager Countess that provides so many of the show's best moments, and it wouldn't strain credulity to keep inviting her to meals. I certainly agree it's nice to see her better used…

I would agree, but just not until Moffat's gone. He's determined not to leave any idea unused and has made a hash out of a few of them, so better it's dormant for a while longer. Carole Ann Ford just made an appearance in the TV movie about Hartnell, so it seems probable she'd be willing to come back for an episode of…

The increased scale most of the series finales have tried to work on have meant they're often some of the weaker and more contrived episodes, really.

Emotionally, yes, though I often find myself wondering why so many of those sequences are so overblown given that his time machine means he could literally visit them whenever he wanted - there's no reason Peter Capaldi's Doctor couldn't go visit Susan 20 minutes after Hartnell's Doctor left her there.

Bond faltered in quality during the 80s (though more during Moore's tenure than Dalton's), and while it wasn't as financially successful during the late 80s it's important to keep in mind that the fallow period before Goldeneye was due to the legal wrangling over the property and not because of a sort of…

It is shitty writing, but then we can't exactly call them out for not writing a farewell speech for a shitty low-budget kids show that stands the test of time for viewers of modern serial television almost 50 years later. Susan was evidently his only living relative in the universe, but at that point the Doctor…

I was actually under the impression that the Seventh Doctor's era being a creative upswing was the generally accepted viewpoint. I also certainly didn't mean to imply the new series didn't have a vastly expanded budget in comparison to the original, but by the time I started watching the new series in 2010 several of…

The special effects in the pilot and in the first two-parter are pretty awful. Neither of those two were unknowns, for sure, but I said they lacked established public personae because Eccleston wasn't famous enough to be typecast, and Piper wasn't really considered an actress yet, hence a lack of quite the same kind…

It's certainly easy to say now that it was the right move for them to take some time off, but I'd sure be interested to see the alternate universe where it just kept rolling through the 90s. It looked pretty cheap when it came back in 2005, but would the budget have been even lower? They've mostly stuck with casting…

I very much enjoy the show for what it is, but you're not wrong in seeing that the decline in quality between S1 and S2 is mostly imaginary. The series certainly failed to grow in the way it might have, but it's always been stunted in the ways it is still stunted. S3 was weaker overall, but that's largely the result…

The way they undercut the sap of the moment with the family by having Young's character comment on it directly was probably my favourite moment though. His timing and the quality of his idiocy actually meant the show earned its sappy moment and got a laugh at the same time. That's a tough needle to thread, and doing…