eh, the internet is the internet and most people confuse what they like with who they are. Probably advertising true impact on our culture or something Tyler Durden would lecture on but who really knows. I'm actually amazed at how civil things can be on this particularly topic. (relatively speaking).

people are different, those are really the only 2 episodes I liked. All things to all people or some things to some people.

glad you dig, to each their own, wish I was more on board myself. I felt like last season was amazing and have high hopes for the new companion to spice up the next go-around.

I feel like 'best episode of the season' is almost a slam on how weak this season ended up being more than a sweet compliment.

I really have no understand of how some peoples feelings work as this is one of those things I randomly read on the internet that I will probably randomly think about on and off for the next week or so.
Not to be critical, it's really a genuinely fascinating idea to hear that someones feels work that way.
Personally I…

I feel like if she didn't die there, it severely undercuts the narrative integrity. It's hard to get invested in characters dying when it is normal for them to come back the next week. My girlfriend pointed out that Clara's whole thing used to be dying at the end of every episode.

It took a third of the episode to even get to the refugee alley, and a third of the episode for Clara to dramatically die, leaving only a third of the episode to develop a satisfying story, which just wasn't enough. To arm chair direct the show, I would say that dropping the 20 minute of looking at maps and trying to…

Kind of an interesting choice to have two episodes in a row where the central conceit was that people can genuinely and easily trick the doctor by offering him contrived mysteries. It seems to be basically his only true weakness, which I like.

Describing a character in a tv show in a review will spark some feelings?

It's good when a man knows himself.

getting snarky because you were rebutted with facts I see.

An episode of Adventure Time costs 750K and that involved teams of
the highest paid people in animation, overseas animators, extensive
writing staff and a whole specialized studio.

Dr. Horrible was not people talking into a microphone over a bad movie.
The whole concept of MST3K was that it was designed to be low budget from day one.
Using super high estimated costs:
If you rebuilt all the sets and went all out, 60k
If you had 10 writers and paid them 50k per episode 500k
License a bad movie,…

how do they need a million dollars in order to budget the talking over bad movies exactly?

Yeah, it isn't the 2 parter thing. When it doesn't work it's easy to start trying to grasp at any detail to justify it but the bottom line is they just aren't working. 2 parters could work, episodes without themes or character stakes could work, episodes with boring minor characters could work, ect.

As a big Capaldi fan who fanboy who would take very little to please, it's surprising that it isn't living up for me. I sort of feel like making every episode a two-parter means half the episodes will have unsatisfying endings and having just two mediocre stories in a row equals a months of mild disappointment.

Have you read that that is how it is done or are you speculating?
That may be the case but I find it hard to imagine Moffat having the time, especially after how ever many seasons of Doctor Who, and running Sherlock, to personally micro-manage this way for every single episode every of every single season when he is…

I hated that episode just because it didn't connect with me and felt poorly done in all categories. Maybe my least favorite, other than the one where Doctor Who met the devil.

Maybe it was ultimately since the true drama was in how various characters saw the world and her attitude was what was ultimately what was significant.

I agree that the writing credit is popularly misunderstood in how much credit fans actually give each individual writer. A whole room full of people pitch, write, re-write, punch up and discuss beat out every episode. Who actually gets the final credit has more to do more with who was involved in which drafts,…