I guess I didn't really see this as all that happy an ending for Bill. To me, it seemed like an attempt to avoid the "dead lesbian" stereotype. I am still not sure how traveling the universe with another dead lesbian is a win for her, since to me, it read like both of them were still dead. But I will take everyone…

They said in the episode - they were too close to the black hole for him to steer the TARDIS properly. That was then backed up in this episode when the Master said he got stranded because he screwed up his own TARDIS trying to navigate so close to the black hole.

Hopefully the Christmas special will be entitled: The Crankiest Doctors

Yeah, for this kind of thing, I don't count "they were huge in Britain" or "they were stars in Canada" because it is just too difficult.

No "Come On, Eileen" or "Heart and Soul"? I would have liked to see the write up on "Closing Time" because I love that song. But I will also nominate one other song - "Just Another Day" from Jon Secada. That song had a different sound and an emotional core, and Secada never did anything else as interesting.

You need personalities to have dynasties. The problem with both the Cavs and the Warriors is that they are teams filled with earnest guys.

That's a good point. He's clearly a very abstract thinker and that certainly comes through in his work. But even with his abstractions, he has grounded this particular work in some very concrete concepts - the abuse of women and the impact it has on the community; the passage of time and the impact it has on all of…

I mean, the show is about the abuse of women - sexual, physical, mental. As a woman, I find it difficult to watch but also, as a woman, I think it accurately shows the kinds of abuses, large and small, face every day. So I am not sure it's as misogynistic as it is honest.

He's not race-conscious in that he isn't particularly interested (apparently) in how people of other races live. But he is race-conscious (and gender-conscious, I guess) in that he's always been aware of how while male authority figures fail. Ben Horne was a good example of that even in 1990.

I think that Lynch tests the audience with the slowness in which he tells the story. Which was true back in the day, as well, only audiences didn't demand as much immediate satisfaction as it does now.

Yes, valid point.

That's true. He such an excellent actor that, in a different role, I could believe it. But not the Doctor.

Right, but either way, the viewer knew it wasn't really the Doctor's true point of view. I was just waiting for it to be revealed as a fake out.

The problem I had with the beginning is that I knew it would be a fake out. The Doctor isn't going to turn humanity over to some decaying monks, so you knew at some point, he'd reveal he was faking. So it meant that the emotions of the scene didn't really land.

The over the top, grotesque soap opera-y feel of Twin Peaks is supposed to be there - and I was happy to see that. The show was always a soap in its aesthetic, from the melodrama to the focus on violence towards women to showing what goes on in small town life (both a reference to the audiences who watch soaps to the…

Was there last summer, it's beautiful. I imagine it's less pretty in January, though.

I visited PEI for the first time last summer, and they pointed out that the 80s series was also filmed in Ontario. It's too bad because PEI is really lovely.

Right, which was my comment was about Bob, not about Frank Silva, who I am aware is no longer with us.

Yeah, it was because of Lara Flynn Boyle.

No way. Even as a high schooler, I recognized Sheriff Harry S. Truman's finer qualities.