I wish Eccleston had agreed to do the special and been in the Hurt role, but I don't begrudge him. He had his issues with his run, did a series but he got the ship righted. He was my first Doctor and I'm forever grateful to him.

Also, congrats to Moffat for not using River Song at all in this anniversary. I'm sure it took some restraint, but we were all better off for it.

The Master's return in RTD era was fine, but the 'oh hey, there's a whole Dalek fleet oh wait they got destroyed, no there's still a few left and one of them wait and got Davros and he brought back even more' run was kind of cheap, so Gallifrey being out there is A-OK by me. Moffat may have cheapened the continuity a…

The way he regenerated into 9 without dying makes me believe that he's not an official, full fledged incarnation. He was there after 8 to handle the business of the Time War and once his business was taken care of, onto the next Doctor. He was with everyone else at the end, but it seems he's like the Valeyard…a…

Capaldi is still the 12th Doctor. John Hurt was an incarnation between 8 and 9, not an official Doctor.

At first I thought Of COURSE Moffat will undo what Russell T Davies did with the Time War, since all his ideas are bigger than any other Who writer's ideas. But after awhile, it grew on me. If RTD brought the Daleks back despite the war, why shouldn't the Time Lords be back?
The 50th anniversary had many flaws (what…

Well tell me what heralded means then because I clearly don't know.

But she was being heralded. Big time. For a whole week, Vulture did multiple stories a day on her last year.

NBC's a disaster on Thursday, but Fox on Tuesday has been a disaster, too. New Girl, the live action comedy "hit" Fox has craved, is regularly below a 2 in the demo now. Dads was DOA. Brooklyn 99 has promise, but it's destined to be low rated like NBC Thursday night comedies.

It didn't help that Gaiman himself proclaimed he was going to make the Cybermen scary again.

You must have missed the Mindy blitz that happened last fall when her show debuted. The recapper on Vulture after the second episode said it was on its way to becoming one of the greatest sitcoms ever. Their ratings guru went out of his way to spin the numbers for that show.

Maybe this will end the absurd notion that NBC blew it when they passed on Mindy and let it go to Fox. Last month, articles on Grantland and defamer were still putting that idea forth, in spite of the show being mediocre and the ratings being terrible.

Neil Gaiman did such a great job with The Doctors Wife that it was maddening and sad to see him whiff so poorly with the Cybermen in Nightmare in Silver. The Cybermen have had to endure some poor episodes, but that one was the worst. No interest at all in seeing them move so rapidly. That made them less frightening.

He's counted as a companion by Russell T Davies.

Seeds of Doom may not be representative of what the show was, but it's one of Baker's best performances, alternating deftly between deadly serious and joking, even as he's being beaten up by one of the better henchmen the show's cast. The shot while the shadow from his hat is covering his eyes and he says "I haven't…

I'm aware, what bothered me was the Doctor escaping death in two consecutive series finales in a manner like that. He made his plots too intricate and devised the hackiest escape hatch possible. In all of RTD's big season finales, possibly excepting season 3, there was at least some consequence (Doctor regenerates,…

I don't think it's fair to say RTD had it easier. He had to both reintroduce the show to a new audience and placate the worries of the fans of the classic show. That was no easy task. By the time the keys were handed off to Moffat, the show was in very good shape.

"We still don't even know what took control of the TARDIS in "The Pandorica Opens"
Moffat is so convoluted at times, I'm not even sure if he explained it or not. I guess we don't know, but I'm not even sure that we don't know.

In Jack's first return to the show after dying then coming back, they did spend some time on what Jack's revival meant and why the Doctor was so eager to get out of Cardiff before Jack could catch up with them. In the series 4 finale, Jack, Martha, and Sarah Jane had already had moments where the Doctor met up with…

I didn't mind it the first time in The Big Bang, but the conclusion to the Wedding of River Song was just too easy after they spent a whole season on the mystery of the Doctor's death.