It echoes the doctor saying Annabel was not special.
I don't mind about the show attacking the 'everyone is a special little snowflake' notion. It's insulting to kids that teachers are encouraged to lie to their face and pressure them 'why do you say you are not special, are you calling me a liar?'
It also makes for a…

To be fair it wasn't just about losing their parents, it was about losing their whole world. Those people in pompei just lost their city.
And she was going to stay behind as well, which i feel makes it totally different from 'i now decide to sacrifice your life, as you'll surely be suicidal anyway, but i'm special so i…

I'm really over disallowing mental patients the choice to interpret their disease in a way they feel most comfortable with.
For some that will be 'damn, i'm sick, give me pills pills pills', for others that means 'those voices in my head have really encouraged my creativity' or 'now that alzheimer stripped away so much…

Go be angry with Alasdair for going on a thought-train about 'evil Kobra' without bothering to spend 20 seconds googling for the actual reference.

Well, when did a companion last for more than 3 years? It's not like she'll always be traveling with the doctor. So it's not particularly unrealistic of Danny to 'be there waiting for her when she stops adventuring'.

I felt FotN succeeded where KtM failed miserably:
-it gave a sense of urgency to the crisis by making it present-day and small (a group of kids, instead of the entire human race, even if _technically_FotN also had the whole world in danger)
-it fully admits it's a fairytale in which the laws of nature are rather sketchy
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What stroke me as strange is that in KtM everything works out fine, physics be damned. Whereas in flatline the dead people stayed dead, even though the story could just as easily have them show up alive and well at the end (given how little we understand about how the 2d-beings operate).

You have a point that her strange introduction didn't do her much favors in the long run: after the mystery of her identity was solved (and it turned out she did not have special powers, she was scattered over time and space because of the doctor) she basically had to be re-established as a character.

Please no, the next spin-off should be of the paternoster-gang.
Steampunk 'alien' Sherlock > schoolteacher

Couldn't agree more on wanting less Clara. She is really getting on my nerves with her boring relationship-troubles (that are basically her own fault), and i didn't like her 'being the doctor' at all.

Missy was at the end, looking at Clara through some kind of viewscreen.

O please. I don't particularly mind that you hijack someone else's comment-thread to plug your own review, internet-etiquette notwithstanding (though the AV-staff might beg to differ). But please don't claim you 'are sorry', that is rather annoying.

This episode was in several ways the opposite of kill the moon:
-the victims are fleshed-out characters
-the doctor gets actively involved
-clara gives in to her 'addiction'

I would really like to see anything else than yet another 'cute white 21th-century english girl' for the next companion.
With a doctor who is not particularly young i fear the bbc won't dare to put 2 relatively-old people at the center of an adventure show, so Donna and River are probably out of the question. But i…

I didn't notice anything. And i find it hard to believe the beeb would cheap-out on one of their biggest hits.

…counting on a slight anti-Twelve backlash to take them comfortably into the next "boyfriend" Doctor that will most assuredly be Thirteen. ;)…

The writers seem to want to level the playing-field a bit with 'you can't buy love, not even with a lot of money or a time-machine', and thus they have stories about companions who think about leaving.
And it never quit rings true to me: who would give up space-time adventures just because your buddy is kinda an…

Or maybe you just live in a USA-bubble on the internet, where non-english non-western nations only exist at the fringes.
Just ask f.e. who made the biggest contribution to space-flight. For most americans that is pretty obvious: you put the first man on the moon, so that means you won the damn space-race. For a…

Ugh. I hate that 'if you are not with us you are against us' moral laziness and smugness.
Lots of people have a more complicated opinion, they are f.e. against abortion unless the pregnancy endangers the mother's health.

I kinda liked that she refuses to call her Clara. It means that to Courtney the often-ignored school environment is 'the real world' and not their travels with the doctor. She knows those travels are only temporary, after which normal life will resume, which in a way makes her more self-aware than most companions.