It's Steven Moffat. I'm not sure this is the First Doctor. Maybe something different is going on.

I really liked Series 8 and 9.

Yeah. It's not been a bad season, but there was a moment, from about Knock, Knock to Pyramid where the episodes all had at least one thing that was excellent. It's been pretty mediocre apart from that.

How dare the monster want to allow parts of the show to reflect in some way his experience in life????

I wouldn't be surprised if it was moved later after they made the blindness a mini-arc.
But Nardole going native is something from the Christmas special, so it feels like its from a different season which followed on from that.

"Music remains even after every other thing has gone; life, memory, and most definitely war."

I got the impression they overloaded the portal. I mean, something about the idea the music plays even though the cairn has collapsed.

They were good guys in the story they previously appeared in, The Curse of Peladon. And whilst the Sontarans first appeared in The Time Warrior, that story was focused on one villainous figure. It wasn't until The Sontaran Experiment that they became established as a warrior race that would come back. Until then, they…

Might revisit at some point. I've not seen it in years.

What would your favourites for the Ainley Master? I probably would have to say that Logopolis and Survival were both good, but as far as I remember his Davison and Colin Baker stories were fairly weak.

I don't think that will happen, though Monroe was perhaps the only writer to make Anthony Ainley's Master distinct. But she goes for interesting elements. SURVIVAL was perhaps one of the best final episodes Doctor Who could have hoped for at the time.

Rona Munroe will at least be interesting. She tries to go for more than some of the other writers.

Sontarans didn't exist when the Ice Warriors did. In many ways they replaced the Ice Warriors as the other generic threat, after Cybermen, in the late Tom Baker era.

I'd still prefer last week's episode if it lets episodes like "Extremis" exist.

If it hadn't been so explicit it would have been better. After an episode of warriors just attacking each other, to end on a high-pitched alien who would rather invite everyone aboard a starship than fight was funny. Making it obvious that "This is something you should recognise" made it worse.

Cool. I will defer to your better judgement on this one

I'd forgotten about him after his disappearance. Wikipedia says his name is Corrado Invernizzi, so if he's not Italian, he's going to some crazy lengths to play it up. :D

Is that with the whole "You have disturbed the natural order line"?

Can someone actually explain why that Future-Hell-Computer is a thing? It feels like just a version of the Cthulu mythos but people act like it's a real plausible thing.

That got really bleak. Humanity is just going to go insane in the dark and kill everyone it can.