I wouldn’t be opposed to them skipping the TARDIS entirely this season if possible, it’s what I liked about the early Pertwee stories and it builds the anticipation up for when it shows up.

(red ants crawl through white chest hair) 

That must’ve been some contest.

“Movie critic” might be one of the most horrifying google image searches that is still SFW.

He was the best-looking film critic of them all.

Agreed about the TARDIS. I am worried that we may not see the TARDIS for some time, and that worries me as I love me some TARDIS.

Hear hear — had the TARDIS come back at the end, it would have been a much more tantalizing and optimistic denouement. Having everyone accidentally end up stuck in space so soon after a memorial service for a character who didn’t need to die was way too dour for a Doctor debut story. While I appreciated that this…

I liked fish fingers and custard and the whole conversation with Amelia and 11. I didn’t like 11 defeating the threat by monologuing at it though. The show needs to stay away from that particular well for a while.......

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.