I was JUST gonna say that.

As I see it, this show ended the way it wanted to end. And it landed on its feet. Sure it lost its way from time to time. It was far too weighed down with silly plots. But it found its way home, always, and with grace. I fully loved this deeply imperfect show.

It's Canada. So if summer falls on a Saturday they can't shoot.

That WOULD be satisfying. But c'mon, we both know it'd be Cersei and Rachel duking it out in a stone-cold bitch-a-thon.

Cal is in the rowboat with Gendry. They'll show up together both in next week's OB finale and ep 5 of GoT, dressed in modern and medieval costuming, respectively, having the same conversation about the hardships of tv production scheduling. On GoT, Daario cuts their throats before they make it to the shore. In OB,…

Funny, i was just thinking about that. Reading something on some Who site. I really do like the final two-parter. And you're right, Thin Ice was great. Maybe best in the season. The final eps did redeem things a bit for me, but yeah, I don't remember being this underwhelmed by a full season…my (possibly) favorite…

Hang tight. I'm booking you a flight to the Syrian-Turkish border! Though, admittedly, in some infinitesimal way, made less horrific by the absence of costumed buskers.

Thanks for all the thoughtful reflections on DW, Alasdair (and for all the fish). Your expertise will be missed.

Funny. I thought, "How is Serena gonna open the door and keep her in the car?"

The whole monk arc and then these two episodes…that's (sigh) five mildly ok episodes in a row. And I wasn't convinced about the early episodes entirely. Maybe Thin Ice. For me, this season will have to end on Blink/Midnight/Heaven Sent levels of genius to feel worthy of it being Capaldi's last run. It all feels a bit…

I'll say up front that the Beatles probably saved my life as a teenager. Maybe even as a preteen. When my 10 yr old friends were all listening to Ted Nugent, Alice Cooper, and Black Sabbath, I sought out melody like air…and the way each song on a Beatles album (after Beatles '65) was a dense, compact, lived-in…

Well, yes. But I was convinced of that before 1980.

Not science. Just basic plot logic. Displaying a basic understanding of actual human behavior. Also, the moon is an egg.

I really must have a highly fortified suspension of disbelief when it comes to Dr Who. If Star Trek or The Expanse committed the kinds of very basic, science-y, logic-y errors this episode repeatedly commits, I'd be throwing things at the TV. Here, I just shrug, "Yeah, of course the highly-trained guy scoops up the…

Alex Jones, there is already enough of the actual world collapsing into the surreal void. Why employ yogurt?

Missed the idea, initially, of the Star Trek reference as dealing with that show's post-capitalist mythology. I immediately saw it as a bit of a nod to the very Borg-like nature of the spacesuits in the way they move and sound as well as in how they attack their victims. Almost as if they wee saying, "Yeah, we see…

"couldn't QUITE get maximum mpg…"

"I feel we’re being robbed of some tragedy here, and I want all the sadness, dammit."

I know a few people who feel that way. I get that Skyfall isn't traditional, it doesn't feel entirely like a Bond movie, but I think it's a damn good film, Bond or no Bond. There's a craft to it missing from too many 007 films. But that's me.

Ah! Good catch. I fixed it…because I'm that way.