Oh I second that—I have no problem at all with the thought of swooning for Capaldi's Doctor. But so long as the show is good I don't need to. I never swooned for Eccleston, much as I loved him, and no amount of lust for Smith was able to make me hate season 7 any less. My complaint is 1) I resent Moffat's assumption…

I think that is a perfectly reasonable explanation, but all of the hand wringing about Capaldi's age just felt like they didn't have any confidence in their writing, his performance or the audience's imagination. Stop scolding me for being shallow enough to crush on Smith/Tennant and trying to convince me Capaldi…

As a lover of the original films I had to be forced to watch Rise and absolutely fell in love with it. But it wasn't any kind of suspense, or the brilliance of the script that did it—it was all about Caesar for me and the interactions among the apes in prison. Everything else is the background noise that I had to…

When I was little my mother used to sing a song to me and my brother called They Call the Wind Mariah. I had intended to name my daughter Mariah. Until the 90s happened…

Had the same thought. There's a certain symmetry to that as Pandorica Opens was the first inkling we got that the Silence were after the Doctor.

Is THAT what was happening on Scandal? Twitter freak-out suddenly seems incredibly subdued.

I may be in the minority on this, but I would honestly watch a show that was just Louis and Chris Rock talking about life over beers.

You go ahead and joke while I quiver with fear…

Yes—one of RTD's talents was somehow getting me to surrender to overblown, over-indulgent, music-swelling emotional moments like this one. I would slide from "this is ridiculous" to "hand me another tissue" in seconds.

Agreed with everything you wrote before and after the "caring about Clara" part (I also frequently revisit Davies era episodes). I think I may have taken all of my anger and frustration at Moffatt and dumped it on her. In any case, really hope Capaldi is great enough and Clara is at some point developed enough for…

Caroline's second section here sums up my feelings so perfectly I want to frame it. It is precisely because Moffatt was brilliant enough to make me fall in love with his characters and care about every twist and turn in the plot that I became so damn frustrated when he showed so little regard for those characters'…

I think the people you admire/worship/seek to emulate are the people with whom you can identify—it's not enough that they are awesome, they have to have show you some part of yourself as well. All of us, regardless of race, tend to see whites, particularly white men, as a default—raceless and sexless, which allows all…

I think the model is This American Life's retraction of their ipad story. They showed why they deserved their pedestal by devoting the show to fully reporting out what they got wrong, how they got it wrong and what the real story was.

Hearing such amazing these about this and the idea that Chiwetel Ejiofor is about to get his due is so exciting, but I really just don't know if I can sit through this, possibly *because* it's so damn well done—capturing the brutality of slavery is a great feat for a director but a horrific thought for a viewer.

One of many things I loved about the Walt-Hank confrontation is the way Hank's listing of Walt's crimes, seeing them through Hank's eyes, removed them from this surreal alternate universe and made them real.  Gus Fring's epic, so-cool-no-one-cares-whether-it's-plausible demise becomes "You bombed a nursing home."

Very very late to the thread—hazard of watching things online in my own time—but somewhere around half way through the first season I decided I really didn't like Ted and didn't care what happened to him, and from that point on the show in my mind was really about Barney and Robin getting together.  So there actually…

I do think there's a strong possibility that "pond" wasn't just a happy accident. But the thought that there might be a good, even brilliant explanation for her to be dull is cold comfort. I also can't decide how much to blame Coleman. She was more emotive as a dalek than as a governess. Maybe that's by design,…

I do think there's a strong possibility that "pond" wasn't just a happy accident. But the thought that there might be a good, even brilliant explanation for her to be dull is cold comfort. I also can't decide how much to blame Coleman. She was more emotive as a dalek than as a governess. Maybe that's by design,…

I agree with the Clara is too perfect line of thought.  If I were watching for the first time, I'm sure I'd love her, but after 8 years, pretty, daring young woman drops everything to follows mad man through time and space feels a little lazy.  I didn't really have much interest in Clara until it became clear that 1)…

I agree with the Clara is too perfect line of thought.  If I were watching for the first time, I'm sure I'd love her, but after 8 years, pretty, daring young woman drops everything to follows mad man through time and space feels a little lazy.  I didn't really have much interest in Clara until it became clear that 1)…