I basically just binge watched this season and I don't think that made the themes any clearer. They weren't really committed to until this two parter.

I'm okay with the "boyfriend" bit because there's not many words that really captures stuff like this:

I kinda think River's season would have worked better with Capaldi's Doctor. A more subdued Doctor would play off her better than Smith's manic one did. Of course the horrible backend of the season would still exist.

I caught them both, but being a time traveler, I knew about Missy. I was not expecting the cybermen before that point, though.

"I'm old fashioned" pretty much undoes those silly complaints. From a character perspective, "The Master" would have connotated some degree of power at some point. Now it sounds just cheesy. "The Mistress" on the other hand, retains a bit of its original impression.

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Not a lot insofar as television, but in films they're easy to find. Comic book films. Pixar. Disney. Transformers. Star Wars. Anything the "typical adult" would watch that also has a toyline, basically.

The thing about the basics is that it doesn't consider the advanced stuff.

I don't think that's true. It's not the reactionary characters or lack of agency that's the issue. It's that coupled with how the things they were reacting to were also hollow. The wolves and tiger didn't matter. The firefly things didn't matter. The guys with the flamethrowers didn't matter. It was all padding.…

Talking heads is amazing when the dialogue is good. Reservoir Dogs is all talking heads. The best parts of Silence of the Lambs are the talking heads interviews with Lecter. Every popular visual novel is basically talking heads and Phoenix Wright, Higurashi, and Clannad all manage to be awesome.

It doesn't help that constant use of global scale stories will begin to undermine themselves.

I liked you from other comment sections, but after that trollish first line here, I lost some respect.

I want to believe that thing was the space whale that saved the UK.

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It's that old Defrosting the Ice Queen trope. When tough, cold, or distant characters show vulnerability, gentleness, or compassion, it endears us. It's the same reason tsunderes are so popular.

From your remarks here, you don't strike me as a troll, but you could improve your tact a great deal.

I liked moon Lavos well enough.

The way I see, those two things are the same. You become "fundamentally a bit of a dick" by "going through so much." Nature vs nurture, I guess.

I like bears and pigs. Does that make me half man, half bear, and half pig?

It's because Pokemon can't hold more than one item at a time, so she can't steal anything.