I momentarily thought she was going to die and regenerate—revealing that she was a regenerated Susan…… but then the Doctor said the bit about being kind with the photos…

She walked out of the Dallas Fan Expo, leaving people standing in line for photo ops they'd already paid for. Someone in a local fan club said she'd told a security guard there weren't enough people and some of them didn't even know who she was. A short time later she was chatting on twitter.

They're all buddies.

Or the rest of the story was sacrificed to make room for the Missy stuff. I remember Chibnall saying that Moffat would tell him to "make sure in this episode Rory dies" … or RTD telling him, "at the end, have Martha's mom answer the phone and say 'this'"…. So the writers knows they must include certain elements and…

Regeneration seems to be a fluid concept. The Time Lords gave the Second Doctor the option to choose his new appearance from a selection of images, but he rejected them all and they just forced his regeneration. The Sisterhood of Karn allowed the Eighth Doctor to choose the characteristics of the Ninth Doctor using a…

I think part of the problem is the writers are fettered by the overarching story. They are have to include the Missy elements and that takes away from the time allowed for the current episode's story.

Or how easily people are deluded and act out of fear or desire for revenge.

This thread is making me laugh.

The Third Doctor used that Vulcan nerve pinch, as well, if I remember right.

He failed this time, as well, after six months of planning; it was only accidental that Bill's fake memories magically saved the world.

And really that only makes sense in the Moffat version of the Doctor who is basically a superhero who only exists to save the world from monsters… unlike the more classic version who wandered around the universe stumbling into situations (except when given specific tasks by the Time Lords)

"…. Doctor Who favors big, memorable moments over the emotional realities that should underpin them."

It definitely was a slog. I kept walking away or falling asleep in the middle of episodes.

There was no indication at all that he used the sunglasses… and unless he is mentally connected to them and can instruct them on what to do in a split second it wouldn't make any sense. And he did all this without signing into the program, apparently, so they would have had to hack the system, as well. It's just…

I finished it today… I absolutely hated the final two episodes.

The ratings were steady throughout the second and broke records in the last season, so I wouldn't call the second disastrous or the third merely "okay". The second season story was terrible in comparison to the others, but it was still watchable with some good performances.

I don't think he has all Time Lord technology at his fingertips, though the increasingly advanced computerized items and omnicient magical TARDIS do take away the charm of the old series, where the Doctor mostly had to rely on an unreliable TARDIS, a purely sonic device and his wits to get out of jams most of the…

What does "do a Broadchurch" mean? I love the music in Broadchurch! It wouldn't suit Doctor Who in most instances (though some, like Impossible Planet/Satan Pit, have some pretty surreal music)

He could have gone out whining and throwing a temper tantrum, complaining about all his new body choices, like the Second Doctor did.

(From the Telegrah, May 2015)
For Doctor Who, however, he took a different tack, composing some of the music for the recent Doctors based on the actor’s personality.