It has been coasting a bit. I suspect the series lost something when the real Adam stepped back from being showrunner.

The real Murray is no longer with us, but I’m not sure The Goldbergs can sustain another major character death. They managed to graciously pull off writing off Pops, which couldn’t have been easy in a show that’s more focused on exaggerated comedy and not so much on life’s tragedies.

I still enjoy it, but it has been running on fumes.

Murray is hardly a minor character. It will be hard to continue the show without him. With the recent loss of George Segal, as well, it just feel like time to wrap-up the series. It had a great run.

Adam’s about to graduate from high school. The show is at a natural endpoint, anyway. It would be nice if Garlin had filmed a scene for the final episode to give the series some closure.

It elicits a knowing but somber 1/4 smile.

Bring on Lupin the 3rd.

I’d like to see someone finally write a novel based on The Phantom of the Opera or Les Misérables.

I look forward to James Bond films being fun again.

Love & Monsters wasn’t GOOD but I thought there was at least something creatively interesting and different there. It’s an experience, anyway.

Eccleston, Tennant and Smith, you knew who their Doctors were and they rose above even middling stories. Capaldi’s characterization bounced around a bit but coalesced by the end. Whitaker is likable but is a mish-mosh of conflicting traits and flat writing. I’m praying RTD comes back refreshed with an actual vision…

He  fought a mummy on a train.

Truly a shame, that entire situation. I’d like to think they could make amends, but it seems like whatever happened was too painful for Eccleston to revisit. The best chance we had to see the 9th Doctor again was probably if Moffat had granted Eccelston’s demand to have Joe Ahearne direct the 50th.

Hey, the animated doodle WAS kinda neat.

I have to imagine this will happen. Aside from “Time Crash,” we never did get an RTD multi-Doctor episode. (Not counting the two 10th Doctors.) Of course, I go right back to hoping Paul McGann and Christopher Eccleston will appear.

I’ll admit, I sometimes look back with my nostalgia goggles and forget the dregs of the RTD era. (Fear Her, blurgh!) But overall, I think he wrote much more exciting stories and compelling characters than we have today.

I’m in!

It’s painful to imagine how good the 13th Doctor written by RTD would be. 

Totally agree. And super frustrating because Jodie was right there to give an incredible performance, if only it was on the page.

Maybe next season they go on the road together, a Natural Born Killers-type premise.