Terrific review of a good not great episode. I pretty much agree 100% on all of the high and low lights. One additional concern is that there was something about the staging and pacing that at times made it feel prosaic and earthbound, more like NCIS than Doctor Who. But, as you say, everybody is finding their feet…

Bucky put himself in ‘prison’ in Wakanda. It was voluntary and it was for deprogramming.

Maybe if he were able to kick his murder habit...

I’ve seen it multiple times and I still can’t sympathize with Cap in Civil War. “Just trust us, we’re good and always will be” is a bullshit argument even if it wasn’t a world where we know mind control is possible.

Ah! OK - got it! Thanks!

Yeah, that line stuck out to me. Compared to stuff like Knightfall, Death of Superman gave us lots of lasting and popular characters at the very least and the seismic impact the article directly references to Green Lantern mythos is more than enough to invalidate that sentence.

DC should just buy the Luke Cage scripts and sub in Irons.

All this, plus, he died in January and returned in September, so I wouldn’t say it was walked back “immediately” (even if, as with Batman’s back, we all knew it was going to get walked back eventually). 

I had watched it from the end of Tennant’s era through Smith’s (of course starting with Eccleston) , but didn’t find the Doctor that I define firmly as MY Doctor until Capaldi settled into his Last Christmas/Season 9 punk rock Doctor persona. I love him so much, and his final speech before his regeneration, the “hang…

“I will be back with a warrant . . . for your underwear!”

He’s not the worst. Just... not the worst.

I agree with almost everything in this article too. I particularly think that Matt Smith’s first season was the high point of the new series, but he never entirely recaptured that magic again for the rest of his run, though I had never exactly thought of it that way before reading Caroline saying it.

He was obviously a dork in his younger days and probably felt he’d arrived when he ended up married to and having a child with a pretty woman like Carol.  Having all that yanked away had to be brutal.

TV 6 was the worst, but blame the writing. Listen to his Big Finish stories and you’ll see he was just poorly served.

12's Zygon two-parter is absolutely terrific... until he reveals that it’s happened before and he has a fail-safe in place for it all. It’s meant to make him look like a super genius who can plan in advance, but it not only undermines his passionate diatribe, it actually makes him look like a callous bastard complicit…

That Zygon two-parter is so xenophobic for a show that’s normally rather progressive.  Not even “The Speech” redeems it in my mind.

My husband feels the same. He thinks the 11th is the best Doctor but the 4th Doctor is HIS. Me, I’m ride or die for the 10th Doctor. We actually argue about this a lot.

I’m glad so many people are learning about Zip Recruiter.

Seriously, even moving my fingers the first few days was painful.

I feel your pain. I’m recovering from surgery after having torn my distal bicep tendon, in my good arm no less. Typing with one hand is not fun...or anything else with one hand.