Well, while I haven't seen a pretty large amount of these films ( 12 Years, Her, Llewyn Davis, Upstream Color and Act of Killing are all top priority) that's not going to stop me from posting a personal Top 10.

Man, how great was Hawkeye? "Kate Bishop. I'm Basically an Avenger."

We could see the Corsair!

Haha, I'm sure it's not the first reference on here, but it's a fun idea and a less immature thing to say than "fanwank." I've never encountered one in real life, (I'm only 23) but I admire Lee's cleverness in heading off fan complaints thirty years before the internet.

Ooh, definitely read JiM! It gets a bit dodgy here and there, but it's a lot of fun and has the same sort of writing to it. But yeah, ideas and characters are definitely carried over, but most of the complaints I've seen on Tumblr and the like have been annoyed that Gillen doesn't properly respect Speed's legacy as…

Timothy Dalton's whole story took place on the other side of town, somewhere the real head of Gallifrey (general dude) couldn't see. He came out of the time lock, fought the Doctor, went back in, and will eventually be very surprised to be restored to the universe with the rest of Gallifrey. At which time the General…

Taking the lives of the comatose isn't a bad idea, but it still feels… squicky, somehow. And the vortex manipulator seemed to be almost out of power.

Personally, I feel like Gillen and McKelvie laid down the gauntlet with their first title page (style>substance) and people were either going to jump aboard or sit on the sidelines and whine. I've never been much for continuity - I prefer to take the stories as their own thing, and let the backstory enrich without…

Is there any indication that she consciously remembers all these lives, though? I got the impression that they were things that occasionally popped up as skillsets or talents, not fully-recalled lives.

Yeah, there's more than a bit of handwaving to get to that idea (How did the first Doctor find out? How was he convinced to save Gallifrey? Will we see Capaldi stop by this scene in his run?) but that line about "working on this my whole life" was a fairly clear implication.

I thought that was hilarious. And then the followup with the singing…

Fair point. Still, Hurt didn't know that.

Yes, my mistake. I'll change that. (I must admit to never watching the classic series. I'll get to it someday…)

Ha! Completely forgot that. Clever.

The one thing that really bothered me about the solution, though - The Doctor still committed genocide! The Gallifreyans are safe, but the Daleks wiped themselves out. He's still a man that killed a species, but it's alright because they're the bad guys.

Yeah, this could have easily gone off the rails with a more outsize performance from either Smith or Tennant, but they pulled back and managed to show the character without shoving it in our faces. And Hurt was great - "are you capable of speaking without flapping your hands about?"

Can someone remind me of the Shakespeare Code ending? I must admit I'm drawing a blank.

Oh, I'm sure they've got a workaround; that's the essential truth of Who, that anything can be handwaved with some technobabble and a smile. But I suspect that Moffat knows about the 13-incarnations rule and wants to be the one to write the story of the Doctor thinking he's on his last life.

I did really like that moment - the one with the inhaler was the human, but she was befriending the Zygon, yes? - but that still leaves the question of what happens to the Zygons now. Are they going to live on Earth? Does UNIT have hundreds of people for them to copy and leave tied up in order to blend in with the…

I think that the thirteen doctors were meant to be doing the calculations necessary to save Gallifrey - the same idea as the screwdrivers and the door, only taken over the Doctor's entire lifespan.