I do miss the Britishness of the pre-Moffat years. It was nice to watch a show with different references, and a different center of the universe (so to speak), that referenced the US from the outside looking in. The loss of that isn't inherently a bad thing, and it certainly hasn't stopped me from enjoying the…

I go back and forth on both this issue and some of the gender issues (e.g., awesome mysterious River Song turning out to have every aspect of her existence somehow revolve around the Doctor)—whether I agree depends on the extent to which I'm thinking of the Doctor as a man or as an idea on that day. I think Moffat's…

I'm looking forward to the Doctor Who wrapup, but a little concerned that once that's done and we know who/what Clara is I won't have any more reason to watch. After this last season, I've basically only been hanging in to have questions answered. Really hope they reel me back in.

I've been complaining all season that Clara has gone completely undeveloped—Jenna Louise Coleman may be a brilliant actress but we'll never find out unless someone asks her to do something more than cock her head to the side, smirk and say something clever in 5 words or less. Every episode in the second half of…

I thought both this and the "wrong hands" joke could have been good, but they were so telegraphed they just came off as cheesy. The TomTom thing especially—when Strax asked for the little boy's name, I actually tensed up in anticipation of something along the lines of GPS. The wrong hands thing was cute enough to…

Yes—really hope that the rumors of Smith's departure at the end of the year turn out to be true. It will force Moffat to wrap up all these storylines, and I still hold out hope that the wrap up will be done in a way that redeems some of the saggier bits.

Yes, yes, this exactly.

Once upon a time I'd read posts like this pointing out the holes and inconsistencies and false character moments and come away thinking—yes it's all true, but I just had so much fun watching I don't care. But this season I find the weight of all the cheats to be too much to bear. Reading your future in a book carves…

So Clara feeds the infinite possibilities of one human life into the planet thought to be the source of all life via the most important leaf in human history, causing it to explode in much the way described by the Doctor in his monologue. And when she gets back home, "everything looks different" I imagine some of…

The reviews for this are so disappointing. Was hoping the film itself would be as engaging as the visuals I've seen, which are stunning.

I get the question a lot as well, and have never understood why because it seems pretty obvious to me what my background is. But I've never found the question itself offensive, unless it came loaded with the implication that I must be something *more* than what I am. But friends and I have talked at length about…

Fair point. I'll note we never see River in her cell, just see her breaking in and setting off the alarm, but own up to the fact that that's a weak save and go back to being bothered by her response to Rory.

Do you remember when? I didn't catch that part. It doesn't change things for me if it is, because we still don't know when they went and how old they were, but it does put limits on when they could have gone back to since they can't be older than upper 30s in the beginning.

For the record, as someone who grew up in NY, I have never thought twice about leaving my borough, let alone my neighborhood, for whatever service/good I needed. Back when I was straightening my hair, I remember a period when every black woman I spoke to told me to go to Washington Heights where "the Dominicans"…

I know Moffat hasn't been so popular in these parts lately, but one of the ways he's earned my trust is by picking up what looked like loose ends/discrepancies ages after you've forgotten about them. Case in point, something that's always bothered me about A Good Man Goes to War: when Rory tries to recruit River,…

I agree. Each episode just feels like they're marking time until we can have our big, sentimental goodbye to the Ponds and get started with the development of a new complex arc with the new companion. It's as if, having decided that they were for some reason not allowed to have the Ponds' story resolved by the end…

Thought this episode had a lot of potential, but the work went into setting up later storylines, rather than developing the best parts of this one. I like the idea of the Daleks coming up with a way to go undercover—part of the reason they were neither scary nor interesting to me before is that you see them coming a…

Thanks for these—as someone who came to the show in the Davies era, I appreciate the chance to dig into the crates.

We don't know where in River's time stream that is. She may have already learned The Doctor's name before going to Demon's Run. We also don't know that that's what it says on the side of his crib.

I second that. I would never have devoted this much time and energy to unraveling the details and identifying the holes during the Davies era. I enjoyed the show at that time but in a very different way, and I have trouble rewatching those episodes now.