It’s fair cop, although honestly if you’re searching for positive things to say about the Chibnall era, “had a better hit/miss ratio on Dalek stories than his predecessors” is, surprisingly, one of the more justifiable ones. Resolution/Revolution won’t ever be remembered in the same breath as Genesis, but they were…

It wasn’t until years after reading Interview that I read about her daughter who died tragically young and realized that the character of Claudia was clearly based on that experience and for whatever good or bad you might say about that book, that character and her arc absolutely stayed with you.

And bless: despite being deeply religious and having a feminist sensibility forged in the 1970s, Rice managed to depart this vale of tears without as far as I can tell ever once going full TERF.

Yeah. Even everyone’s (including mine) choice for the unqualified classic of this era (Demons of the Punjab) could have stood at least one more draft.

We really don’t need those signposts to see the unmistakable parallels between two Red State predators.

Yeah, if you’re searching for good things to say about Flux on the whole, it’s that Chibnall finally let Jodie actually do a few things, rather than eternally standing around and having the plot explained to her by other characters. (Although it’s not like he entirely gave up on that, cf spending half of E5 having…

I recently (like, yesterday) found a site that has text transcriptions of what appears to be nearly every single episode of Doctor Who (god bless internet obsessives) and I can confirm that reading the transcription of WEaT/TDF is substantially more entertaining and a hell of a lot more emotionally involving than…

Can you really call it a reveal when they spent half of one of the first episodes recalling an adventure that the Doctor and Karvanista were on together?

What’s killing me is that there’s a version of the scene between Dan and Diane that works, because it’s not just that he was late, it’s that he was late and as a result she was kidnapped and tortured by aliens for months and had to escape from an alien prison largely on her own and she’s just not ready to pretend none…

Yeah, he’s just... a lot better at writing self-contained stories. And the presumptive structure of any Dalek story (Daleks have absurd plan to conquer the universe; Doctor stops them in some equally absurd way) plays to his strengths.

Oh, huh, for some reason I thought this was another “Only in Theaters” release.  If it’s up on HBO Max simultaneously, sure, I might go for that.  I make better popcorn anyway.

That whole speech was so poorly written that I think it’s anyone’s guess — I took it as meaning that they would make the Doctor watch on a loop and that it was going to be a loop of Flux V2 (ie: whatever v1 did was still done) but honestly lord knows.

I think the point of Tecaton’s (is that spelled correctly? not. can I be bothered to look up the correct spelling? also no.) speech to the Doctor was that she’d deliberately put the Earth in line to be destroyed last  by the Flux but the whole thing was so poorly fleshed out that honestly you can just make up whatever…

At the risk of following up to myself: Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror was, also, okay.

I think the deal with the second Flux event was that Mommy Issues was going to center it on Earth to be eeeeeeeevil to her adopted daughter, but after she got dusted by Mr. & Mrs Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, they asked the Ood to please aim it at Atropos because they had a different plan for being eeeeeevil to the…

Honestly at this point... I’d be okay with it if RTD even leans into it.  Gallifrey stories have a not-great track record; leave it dead for a while. If RTD thinks he can tell an interesting story around this plotline, he’s earned the right to try.  I’m just looking forward to someone who can actually write taking the…

The nature of a BBC production pretty much guarantees that every season will have a stinker or three. Hell, even S3, which had the insane run of Human Nature / Family of Blood / Blink / Utopia / Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords also had a front half that asked us all to sit through The Shakespeare Code, that…

God, thinking about The Vanquishers in comparison to World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls is just physically painful.  The “why can’t I be angry?” conversation between 12 and Bill was one of the most heartbreaking things I’ve ever seen on television and three years later we’re back to monologuing villains telling…

But... but... Flatline was really good? (To each their own, I know.) Yes the monsters were a one-off but they were a really good one-off monster and it still played a major part in Clara’s arc that season.

I was confused by Jodie’s eyelines a lot this season too