I had night sweats. Turns out it was cancer

While I agree that there should be more focus on Midge’s career than on her family, damnit I find Tony Shalhoub and Marin Hinkle so fun to watch.

For the people who hate everything being a reboot, rehash, remake these are the types of films you have to see whether you like it or not. The more shoestring indie-as-all-hell films succeed the more likely they are to get funded and made.

Capaldi I think had a pretty natural progression. Going from being a lovable bastard, to getting in touch with his heart again. Those three Capaldi seasons really work as a complete story. Primarily that the first two were him needing Clara to be a good person and the final season being him needing to be who he was…

I think the deal with the second Flux event was that Mommy Issues was going to center it on Earth to be eeeeeeeevil to her adopted daughter, but after she got dusted by Mr. & Mrs Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, they asked the Ood to please aim it at Atropos because they had a different plan for being eeeeeevil to the…

I also loved how personal and contained so much of 12's run was, particularly his last season.* The Ice Fair episode in particular was a great return to form after so long away. It was basically just: “lets have fun exploring the past, and do what we can to help the people in front of us.”

Capaldi’s entire era is... kind of the exact opposite of what your impression seems to be? the threats he deals with are generally more small-scale (one ship or train or building even) or borderline abstract (if his tenure has a Big Bad it’s arguably grief and trauma than any tangible threat). even his series finales…

Didn’t the Flux destroy like the Universe?  Earth might have been saved by the Lupari but the Sun, Moon?  I was expecting some rewind (Swarm even mentioned that he planned to rewind the Universe and do it all over again).  But this is just glossed over.  I love Dr. Who and will still watch it, but between that huge…

For what it’s worth, the subtitles did specifically capitalize the word “Master”.

That feeling - that the Doctor had been lessened somehow*- is the reason I’m about a season and a half behind. I think the Doctor said some version of “I don’t know what to do” ten times as often in 13's first three episodes as in the rest of nuWho combined.

You mean that more interesting, more compelling Doctor that was onscreen a fraction of the time of the current Doctor? 

I get what you mean.  This feels like Chibnall is upset that his first season idea bombed super hard and is now throwing a bit of a temper tantrum going “you guys want returning villains? HERE! You want serialized storytelling? HERE!”.  I said it before, the only disappointing thing about Chibnall’s departure is Jodi…

So hard to know what to think about this, given that it’s the first of a six-fucking-parter. (I do have concerns about that, given that Chibnall’s yet to convince me he can write a decent one-parter.) But there’s a lot to enjoy here, the best bits being Dan and Karvanista - particularly the two of them together.

I definitely prefer the Moffat era to RTD’s. I think the ‘Moffat can’t do long-form storytelling!!’ stuff only applies to S6 (and even then, it has The Doctor’s Wife. It’s not all bad). Capaldi’s first two seasons are simply the richest and most consistently great period of the show outside of Sylvester McCoy’s final…

A weird boon of the Chibnall era is that it’s singlehandedly healed whatever rift existed between those who preferred Moffat and those who preferred Davies

I think the only consistent eras of Who are McCoy’s and Capaldi’s. Also the most character-driven.

Am I the only one who read Matt Ryan will be in season 7, but just playing a different character? The comments sound like many people think he is gone gone.

Also notable that even when the fountain went full ‘wave of killing energy’, it didn’t kill Kayla or Gary (or Sara, for that matter). So it’s clearly not a completely xenophobic ‘no non-native species on this planet!’ kind of guardian...

Or John included getting his magic back in the demon deal, which is the more on brand option.

I was really wondering if I was the only person who had thought of this. Like…he’s not actually there, you know. People use filters and avatars on phones and video chat all the time.