They make a point a few times later on in the show that, under normal circumstances, there was no way on the Cylon God's Green Earth that Lee would've been Galactica's CAG, and that Starbuck (and every other pilot!) should've long-before been grounded for psychological stress.

It's a little surprising how they can make the resemblance (and lack thereof) between EJO and Bamber work for them. They don't really look alike, but, then, they almost look more alike than EJO and Bodie Olmos (who played Hotdog), and they actually are father and son.

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So, was it 2010 in Bells of St. John, or is it 2017 now?

Just for an instant, but I am going to go with the theory that it was a deliberate choice to close that finger last when he made a fist.

The three trilogies have peripheral references to what would've happened in Crusade (the Earth was saved, and the Excalibur was somehow responsible, and that's the extent of any detail), but the Technomage books (which take place between "The Gathering" and the beginning of Season 4) do reveal a good amount of…

IIRC, JMS has also said that Johnny Sekka wasn't in the best health, and they didn't want to give him the stress of a weekly series workload. My guess is, part of the reason he kept dropping in references to Dr. Kyle over the course of the show was because JMS hoped he'd become available for a guest spot at some…

It was a retailer exclusive for Best Buy. There are scans of it on-line, if you'd care to google it.

Both. Some scenes from "The Stolen Earth" appeared before the Doctor plugged into the Dalek.

More or less. The Doctor's early line, "Morality as malfunction, how could I resist?" also echoed a Smith line about Amy.

Is it? I feel like I could see that scene play out in a Romantic Comedy with the charming yet vulnerable man playing everything off lightly. The way its played is what makes the difference, not who's the man and who's the woman.

Yeah, but the description was vague enough to apply to either episode, and a big deal was made about the Daleks being "impure." Being cultured from human cells was a better fit for that than being cloned from Davros, which is essentially the same way the original Daleks would've been born.

Exactly. Try to imagine Ten apologizing to Martha's face the way Eleven talked to Amy at the end of "The God Complex." He could barely admit to how badly he screwed up with Martha as an aside to Donna. Eleven had a degree of self-loathing that kept him grounded.

I was a little surprised that after the Dalek went bad, no one thought that it had just been faking to get repaired. I suspect that there may have been a line or two trimmed out where the Doctor would've considered and rejected the idea for one reason or another.

If Skiffy hadn't aired "Rose" and "The End of the World" as a block, I probably wouldn't have stuck with the show. You can take that as either how much I dislike "Rose" or how much I like "The End of the World."

I really can't get on the "greatest episode ever" train for "Waters of Mars" because the conflict is so artificial. There are two easy ways to resolve the episode's problem, and the Doctor ignores one, and ruins the other. If he just hadn't told anyone they were supposed to die (and that it was vitally important to…

Honestly, the Doctor was admirably restrained about not saying it was the soldier's own stupid fault for not listening to the five seconds of "NO! STOP! WAIT! DON'T DO THAT!" the Doctor was screaming before he fired the grappling hook.

It also resolves a little continuity debate over whether the Daleks from "Victory" were survivors of "Journey's End" or "Parting of the Ways" (jeeze, RTD, reuse more titles why don't you).

I had the same thought watching the episode, and it makes a lot of sense. A squadron of Daleks is cocky, but a single one knows it's up to him to do-or-die, and will be more careful and considered. Maybe he'll showboat a bit, like using the fire sprinklers to one-shot an entire room in "Dalek," but he won't just…

There was a giant leap between "End of Time" and "The Eleventh Hour." As soon as Moffat took over, Doctor Who started looking as polished as an American prime-time show. Maybe even network prime-time. I understand that that actually coincided with a budget cut, so I'd imagine that it was mostly because of new…