I feel like last season was my fave ever and this one has had a couple good episodes (this one and the first two) but I have otherwise been left cold myself.

For my money, the one with the mummy on the train. All his speeches to people about to die were essential.

Let's give a guy with no experience a shot and then shit on him and make him look stupid for not having any experience and having been given a shot.

It would be cool to see a show where they picked a guy to make a movie and worked with him rather than against him. I think it would be more on-brand for HBO as opposed to this by-the-numbers bickering-format.

I feel odd defending the Matt Smith era as there was a lot to dislike, not least of all Matt Smith. However, the ability to do "big idea" character driven sci-fi and longer arcs is really the element in my eyes that elevates Doctor Who at it's best from enjoyable, really fun show to totally amazing only show of it's…

I was simply mistaken about the episode amount. I felt like the set for Under the Lake was perhaps just as spacious, but the colors duller. Maybe it is a personal taste, the Matt Smith era was just a lot more colorful.

I have a terrible fear of sounding like one of those guys who angrily picks apart children's shows and takes no joy in life. You know, like 90 percent of people in comment sections.

Oh sure, I don't mind low stakes. I thought the Robin Hood episode last year was delightful. My favorite parts of this episodes were the jokes and I wouldn't have minded if the gallows scene would have been 20 minutes long. I guess I mean that I don't like that they try to confront big themes and pull punches. I would…

Other than the lower seeming budget, If I were going to arm-chair story deconstruct, I feel like the character-based theme stuff doesn't commit. I watched the Dreamlord episode and the monsters and the stakes were about designed to escalate the urgency of Amy choosing between Doc or Rory and when she did choose she…

I feel like it works thematically and any analysis beyond that will drive you fanboycrazy. 75 percent of Doctor Who stories could usually be over in 5 minutes if the Doctor just used the Tardis more creatively, of course.

If Doctor Who is anything, it is fan-service.

I've been re-watching Amy/Rory episodes and although I am a huge Capaldi fan and think last season was, by far, the best ever and I was never a big Matt Smith fan, I have been missing a lot about that era. The sci-fi was a bit more freaky, River Song going backwards in time playing out so cleverly or the satisfying…

So: "I dunno."

may I ask, what were your thoughts on the racial/feminist elements of the show?

Fair. Allow me to amend. I find any characters in 20 minute joke and gag filled-comedy shows, live action or animated, to be poor expressions of sentimentality. I think tossing on 5 minutes of drama after a gag-fest is just unearned and out of place, personally.

In fairness I can't say they totally never pull it off myself. I felt like the Unity episode had a little bit of the sentimental stuff and kept it funny. Rick getting heart broken to realize he was kind of a piece of shit is itself pretty funny to me and I found that to be probably my favorite episode.

I guess I in the minority. I like when the show is funny and the "emotional, heartfelt storytelling" is just not what I am turning to a 20 minute cartoon for. It's nice when it is a bonus element. but episodes the get lighter on jokes to make room for heavy montages of self-sacrifice are less satisfying then ones that…

that's a myth.

I thought last season was their most brilliant effort in a long, long time. I see they are trying something different this season and I appreciate what they are trying to do and am curious to see where the show goes, but breaking their own formula hasn't really bee working for me and I wish they focused more on fun…

Does introducing a will that can only be read after the Doctor's death in the first episode imply that he will die in the finale?