You could always grade on a curve and look at Winona in the first two thirds of the first season, when she was Lady MacFrumpy.

IIRC, it was Vasquez who first suggested it. Something like, "Joyride in his car? If you really wanted to piss him off, you could've moved into his house." Then Raylan made the crack about having to sacrifice his apartment.

It's the third of four sections of the overture from the opera William Tell, "Ranz des Vaches." The Lone Ranger bit everyone thinks of as the William Tell Overture is the fourth section, "March Of The Swiss Soldiers."

There was the episode last season with the oil pipeline, which really laid out Lana's conflict between wanting to be Queen of ISIS and wanting to be a hero (actually, that probably goes back to the other oil-pipeline episode, where she dropped environmental activism instantly for a chance to have adventures and kill…

Her taunting the kidnapper who was beating the shit out of her is when I really clicked with her character.

In the season two finale, they were restrained about it, so much so that I couldn't quite tell what was different about Lee in the flash forward at first, except that something was definitely off. In the third season, he was stupid-fat. He looked like he was wearing one of those padded suits for training attack dogs.…

I don't know. It looked to me like the entire thing had been reanimated, or at least had another pass of polish done on it. It might've just been my imagination, I haven't done an A-B comparison.

A year or two back, when they did the promo shorts for one of the seasons with interviews with the various characters, Reed voiced the interviewer. I was hoping they'd do one with Ray so I could hear him talk to himself.

I heard the last line in Bashir's "I'm going to say this with microscopically less attitude than you can fire me for" voice.

"Foreshadowing" isn't exactly the right word, more that "Eleventh Hour" has the first piece of necessary foundation to the fact that River is Amy's kid (namely, the wedding dress at the end). There are definitely other dramatic reasons to introduce a companion who is getting married (and I loved having three people in…

Ever since someone pointed out that you could tell the River Song twist was built into the "The Eleventh Hour" (Amy "Pond," and a wedding dress, because what's the one thing a married main character can do that an unmarried one can't on a family show?), I've always enjoyed speculating on how early Moffat had his…

How many teenybopper fangirls can afford a quarter million DVD or whatever the fuck it was?

I can accept the process being a bit different this time, both because of the extraordinary circumstances (a regeneration of regenerations, if you will), and maybe a subtle indication that the Doctor is getting better at it, able to hold it back, or use the energy to heal himself and then diverting or delaying it…

That's unfair. The world is changing. You may as well complain that most of the episodes stink because you need to watch another episode to resolve or continue one thing or another.

At the beginning of the episode, the Doctor has a throwaway line that Handles is an empty Cyberman head (so no gross rotting brains inside, if you were wondering) that he bought at Dorium's (the fat blue headless guy's) marketplace between episodes.

The understanding I got was that the Doctor's name wasn't a mechanism, merely a password. Since they clearly heard, understood, and trusted what Clara said, if they wanted to be pricks, they could've just steamrolled over the Doctor and tried fighting their way out rather than trusting his judgment that now was a bad…

The Doctor mentioned that if the other Time Lords were around, they could do the heavy lifting so he could change history so he wouldn't die there even though he'd already seen his grave and remains. He said something similar in "Father's Day," and the Master demonstrated it in season 3 when he converted the TARDIS…

It could be as simple as that ship being how they got around. Even though it's been hand-waved in the new series that every major space-faring race can travel through time in some unspecified way, it still can't be as simple as traveling through space. Maybe the future-Church doesn't normally travel through time…

Another "unshowy" element occurred to me earlier, when I realized that this siege was what Kovarian was referring to when she talked about the "endless, bitter war" against the Doctor.

We did. The Cloister Bell was ringing. Since the cracks are a result of the TARDIS blowing up, that isn't out of place.