Catching up on this show in time to watch the final season in real time!

I still haven't watched The Wire. I feel like maybe I watched the pilot once. . . The Shield was awesome.

I am just watching Southland for the first time. I had never heard of it. Saw a clip on youtube and was wondering where it came from. I've just seen the first season so far. And though I can't put my finger on why, exactly, I am enjoying it. I'm someone who just watches the pilot of a show and never gives it a…

True, though it's a bummer that she truthfully doesn't have that much to remember. She didn't see all that much, compared to the other companions who only got one season (Donna, Martha). I don't know, I just really felt like 12 and Bill needed one more season together!

I agree with all you said. The one thing I didn't like about his regeneration was just his final line. . . "I don't want to go!" Too whiny for me, after Eccleston's, in which he's mostly just concerned about the impact it's going to have on Rose, and proclaiming them both, "Fantastic!" But I loved the conclusion of…

I realllly couldn't stand the last two "seasons" of Torchwood. (I don't count them as my personal head canon.) But for some reason I was ok with Owen and Tosh at the end of season two. Anyway, I guess I tend to prefer optimism, but don't mind an occasional really devastating turn of events.

Though I'll miss Bill more, I feel like Nardole's ending is the one that really didn't wrap things up at all. Pretty much, the Cybermen are still after him and the people he's protecting. Whether or not he and Bill ever make their way back to the Tardis, I certainly wouldn't mind a one-off episode with the Doctor…

I will say that with Clara, I was prepared for her death, and did think it would have fit. I truly thought Face the Raven was it, and I was the teeniest bit underwhelmed/less than satisfied, but I accepted it. In the end, I was a softy, and was glad that Clara wasn't really done for yet. But her death would have…

They did mention that water girl (Heather?) apparently does have the power to make her human again. And Bill hadn't fully agreed to the whole thing yet, though you do get the impression she would probably be happy with the continued adventuring. I just like to think that she'll keep traveling, and they may turn out…

I liked those moments when Smith and Tennant scared people by mentioning their name. Good times.

Good point in your first paragraph. It really does reduce the impact of the Doctor doing those "horrible" things, that fact that he refuses to even acknowledge the regeneration who did it.

Agreed on both points, but especially the second! I really, really want to see Capaldi with better material!

Gosh, I really wish that Eccleston would have been willing to come back. That would have been amazing. . .. errr. . . fantastic! I loved his season. I have respect for the fact that even actors have situations where they have jobs they don't like and just don't want to go back (whether or not they're…

You've cheered me up. Not only do I want the Master to return, I want Michelle Gomez to return, if at all possible.

Come on, whether or not someone is a good writer is subjective. What I can tell you is that I'm an avid reader who read The Lord of the Rings at 9, and I LOVE Harry Potter. And the writing style didn't ever pull me out of the story. Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, as an example, DID pull me out of the story, with…

Dumbledore is gay if Rowling says he's gay.

Haha, since I'm all caught up now, I felt brave enough to see what exactly you hid under the spoiler tag, which I usually avoid. Are we still considering Harry Potter stuff a spoiler? I think I don't really know how spoilers work, when it comes to long-finished books/shows.

This episode was really great for the most part, and so many feels toward the end there. I did (surprisingly) cry a bit, in Face the Raven, but this is certainly the most affected I've been since The Angels Take Manhattan. There were references to past companions, references to past Doctors, great stuff with the…

"What issues I have with this mostly go back to issues I originally had
with “The Pilot,” as Heather’s return would mean more here if her and
Bill’s love had been more fully realized in the season premiere. The
clue of Bill’s impossible tears is also a bit too flimsy to properly
bridge the two episodes and make the…

I think I would give that award to Sleep No More. I remember being a bit angry when that episode ended, I felt it was so bad. Though it improved just a teensy bit when I was sure, for once and for all, that it would NOT be sleep in her eye that eventually killed Clara, as they sort of hinted at the end of the…