Wow, perhaps Ryan needs to be a companion because of the ignorant and harmful attitudes of people who call neurological conditions “mental disorders.”  Please do your damn homework, because it’s always better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Really? The Doctor doesn’t take very kindly to mass murderers threatening to kill her and her friends. She also seems to have much easier access to her empathy than usual, so yeah... The Doctor decided this was literally NOT the time or the place to scold a black man for defending himself against a White Supremacist…

Good. Honestly, after twelve years Murray Gold’s scoring pulled off the curious double act of being migrane-inducingly bombastic and soporific.

James - this is a general comment not a pop at you, but seriously? If an awful lot of white people are uncomfortable about how “on-the-nose” Rosa is on the subject, perhaps take a step back and ask yourself why it is so damn necessary.

We really must have been watching Quantum Leap in different universes.

Uh, yeah. 1) Future White Supremacist isn’t dead - he’s displaced in time. 2) I think we’re at a point where The Doctor might just have picked up that this is literally NOT the time and place to scold a black man for defending himself against a racist mass murderer who has straight up threatened to kill him more than…

You need to know more Americans who actually know “actual Syfy” -- an awful lot of which isn’t about bug-eyed monster and phallic rocketships.

Know what I’m really not looking forward to? The epic Yank-splaining that writer Malorie Blackman, a BAME woman and award-winning author, couldn’t possibly write about the subject with any insight or sensitivity because she’s English. As we all know, England is a paradise where people of colour have no experience of…

Cool. I really don’t want to see Americans driving by to tell Malorie Blackman, a woman of colour, to shut up and go away because she couldn’t possibly treat Rose Parks with any insight or sensitivity.  As the saying goes, ‘tis better to keep quiet and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

The Internet is horribly fucking wrong.  It’s all terribly sweet until your alien tapeworm with anger management issues gets bored, eats your internal organs and decides to leave you for someone fresher.

I don’t mean to be snarky, but you think the pacing here is going to put off people who binge watch whole seasons of absurdly convoluted hyper-serialized Netflix shows the way I go through chocolate biscuits when I’m feeling glim.  Judging from my non-scientific sample of not-Whovians the less manic pace is going down…

Neither do I -- in the end, it’s not the job of a trailer to be “accurate” but to convince people to empty their wallets in your lap and come see the damn thing.  If come out thinking you’re a lying bastard who will burn in hell for your cold-blooded deceit?  Fine - you’re not getting a refund.

Honestly, as much as anything I think it’s Chibnall and Co. knowing two things :-

Sorry, I’m really scratching my head at this from a characterization point of view. It really couldn’t have been more clear that Grace loves her own grandson deeply and doesn’t consider his dyspraxia something shameful.  It’s not like she’s walking up to strangers and talking about her patients’ treatment -- which…

Has that only bugged you recently, because in Doctor Who England has been invaded by aliens with clockwork regularity for fifty years or so and nobody ever remembers.  Honestly, I think there pretty quickly came a point where writers just couldn’t evem try to explain it or there would be no logical reason why the…

Boringly practical behind the scenes explanation.

The Doctor is a member of an incredibly ancient and powerful alien race called The Time Lords that has the ability to “regenerate” into new bodies in cases of extreme injury or trauma (like fatal radiation poisoning).  And, yes, it has been established that Time Lords can change genders -- though it’s wide open to…

Yes, we are.

Honestly, I wish they’d told Matt Smith to lay off the Red Bull while shooting The Eleventh Hour.  To be fair, I know you can’t come in to a roll and nail your character down on the first take of day one, but Eleven in “oh, look at meeeee I’m the Manic Pixie Dream Doctor” mode is just exhausting.