The siege mode thing is kind of an example of one of those little things that Moffat does that gets on some DW fans' nerves. I mean he threw away decades of history for five minutes of the TARDIS not being a police box. And honestly the siege mode wasn't really necessary to the story. Even without it he was trapped…

For me, this episode's strengths had very little to do with the monsters. The initial sequences when they were flattening people was cool, spooky Doctor Who, but for me the best parts of the episode were the Doctor's increasingly distressed reactions to Clara's behavior."Flatline" is a lot more interesting to me…

I see where you're coming from with that example too… but I can't help but wonder what the reaction would be if the announcement was something like "Once a month, Apple will be giving everyone a free album. First up: U2's Songs of Innocence!" I would be pretty damn pleased myself.

I wouldn't think I would find myself saying this but I kind of agree with Bono on this one. Sure, he's still super douchey about it (just "a dash" of self-promotion, Bono? Really?) but even if Apple hadn't given people a way to delete the songs, the answer to not liking U2 or the new album is to just not listen to it.…

If you notice the Doctor says that Gus called him on the TARDIS console phone "and you know how difficult that is." He's referenced that phone a couple times this season, asking Clara how she was able to call it in her first episode as a regular companion (she was given the number by a lady at the shop.) Throughout…

Here's something that has probably been mentioned below, but this episode takes another step in the definition of the Doctor as a commander. Pink's accusation in "The Caretaker" brought it to light explicitly for the first time, but this season has been exploring that idea. In "Listen" we see him as a Gallifreyan…

I believe I heard somewhere, on the podcast "How Did This Get Made" probably, that he was attached to a Superman movie for a while that went nowhere. The producer wanted Superman to fight a giant spider for whatever reason, and when the project went under that producer went to make "Wild Wild West" which of course has…

I remember around second through fourth grade everyone in my school either read Animorphs or Goosebumps for whatever reason, never both. Goosebumps was a bit more popular (probably because there was a television version of it, and the television Animorphs show was a disaster) but my friends and I were all Animorphs…

I'm going to have to check out this show he's in, I hadn't heard of it until now. I've never really considered myself a fan of Matthew Lillard in that I don't really follow his career or look for movies he's been in, but this interview is right in saying that he usually steals the scenes he's in, or he's the best part…

Scooby Doo is a pretty good example of Lillard being the best part of an otherwise just okay movie

I wouldn't be surprised if he keeps this one for a while. Eccleston and Tennant shared one screwdriver (and Tardis and intro sequence and supporting cast) and they didn't change until "The Eleventh Hour" when *everything* changed. The change from Smith to Capaldi seems to be pretty consistent in terms of tone,…

Crown, clown, down, noun, off the top of my head. Not to poke holes in your joke, I just can't turn down a rhyming challenge.

… "I got soul, but I'm not a soldier"
Seriously, I loved the Killers when Hot Fuss came out, it was one of the very few bands I was able to say that I listened to them before a lot of other people (which is important when you're fifteen for whatever reason.) And I actually really liked that song in particular (All…

The thing about this is that very few TV shows ever reference cell phones to begin with, much less social media. So making a show about the absence of that is already kind of redundant.

I'm always for fanwankery. One of my favorite things about Doctor Who is trying to discover in-universe explanations for real-world logic behind the show.

I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place to put this, but… I thought it was an interesting tidbit that they introduced the Doctor having some level of subconscious control over who he becomes during regeneration (although I don't know if this was from Classic Doctor Who or not.)

I agree about the padded and confused… I wouldn't agree that Tennant's debut being a slam dunk though. He was asleep for most of The Christmas Invasion if I remember correctly.

I think a B+ is a pretty perfect score for this episode. Alasdair
covered my major complaints, the aimless first 20 minutes or so (the
Doctor's a gibbering moron and there's a dinosaur on the loose!) the
tired Paternoster gang punchlines, and bad slapstick but I really
think the new Doctor and his interactions with Clara…

a shame, because it really picked up steam more in the second half

I loved that out of infinite universes, Rick only managed to resolve the crisis in "a few dozen" of them. Also "I'll grab myself, you grab yourself okay? That seems fair to me, that seems like a fair way to divvy that up."