Meh. I'd give it a B at best; so I can't argue with a B- grade.

TMI. Far TMI.

I know. Originally, the album was entitled "1.Outside" to signify that it was to be the first part of a series leading up to the turn of the millennium. Of course, when it comes to music, as great as he is, Bowie has the attention span of a squirrel with ADHD and he quickly jumped to another style and forgot about…

Ian Hunter. He's pushing 77 years old but has been putting out fantastic music, some of his best ever even including his 1970s output, ever since his album "Rant" in 2001.

I have to disagree. I consider 1.Outside to be one of Bowie's best later career works.

"Lodger" is a bit hard to take because it's so bizarre in places. I enjoy it, but don't consider it to be one of Bowie's best. Still, even Bowie's more "average" albums are head and shoulders above what virtually anyone else ever puts out. It's still a great album, just not one of Bowie's greatest.

"Brick by Brick" is criminally underrated because it's one of the most pop albums Iggy ever did. It's still one of my favorite Iggy albums of all time.

Just streamed this while doing some work in my office. It's the best Bowie has come up with at least since the 1990s, perhaps even since "Scary Monsters."

I think BBC America had a lot to do with Who breaking internationally, at least here in the US.

Also, "Doctor Who" wasn't even recorded in HD until after series 4. (IIRC, the four "special" Tenant episodes were the first ones to be broadcast in HD.)

Oh, geez. "Last of the Time Lords." Why did you have to remind me of that one? :-)

Why did you have to remind me of that episode? :-)

Yeah, as an American, I can't figure out why the ratings are down this season, even with time-shifting. Of course, on BBC America, "Doctor Who" is basically the flagship show and arguably more popular in the States than ever.

Agree. Matt Smith could have done the madcap first two thirds of the story as well or even better than Capaldi, but I'm not sure he would have been able to play the last 10 or 15 minutes with the same gravitas or understatedness.

Yeah, I'd really like to see Peter Capaldi stay on as the Doctor for at least a couple of more series. Given Capaldi's age and the physical demands of playing the Doctor, I'd be surprised if he stuck around too many more series, but I'm still hoping for two or three more.

Yes, I'm aware of Dr. Kane. However, the operations he did on himself were way less invasive than what Thack did. Before the advent of laparoscopic hernia repair (which requires general anesthesia), the vast majority of hernia repairs were done with local anesthesia and sedation. Even though an appendectomy was a…

Yeah, that's a good point too. Thack was obviously impaired, whether drunk or coked up the observers probably wouldn't know or be able to tell for sure, but they sure as hell could tell that he was in no condition to operate on anyone, much less himself.

Yup. She chopped the hand up quite well.

I don't know. Almost anything but what happened.

That's the way I interpreted it too, that it was a cliffhanger that didn't resolve whether Thack had died on the table or not.