I'm still convinced that the War Doctor is a method to get the regeneration count up to twelve by Christmas so that Eleven is actually the final Doctor who dies for real at Trenzalore and then gets rebooted or something with a whole new set of regenerations and the whole 12 regeneration limit can be solved for good.

The status quo isn't really restored though because he didn't really bring Gallifrey BACK. It's not like he knows where it is or that the Time Lords can start calling him up and sending him on missions again. It's just that now it's possible that he might someday be able to find it again. If anything, it's one of the…

Yeah, "The Unicorn and the Wasp" is probably the best showcase for the chemistry between David Tennant and Catherine Tate, which to me is the greatest draw of the fourth series. And it's just really funny, too.

I really like "The God Complex" AND "The Unicorn and the Wasp" (Gareth Roberts is probably the most FUN Who writer of the modern era). Where does that put me?

I wrote a comment praising "The God Complex" in the showrunner article, as it really is one of my favorite Eleven stories. I think it gets the character of the Doctor pitch-perfectly. The alien from the most invaded planet in the universe is the most Douglas Adams-y joke that Douglas Adams never wrote and Rita was a…

"Who's the better Doctor Who showrunner?" is basically the "Who's the better MST3K host?" of the 21st century

Yeah, that was poorly worded on my part. I should have clarified that. I meant to say that I really love that moment because it's about the Doctor as a character and what it's like to be as old as all that and do what he does. And then to say that I like Moffat's era of the show because it's also about those things.

It's nice to talk about this here because I can finally use this analogy: RTD's Who is like The Office (US). It works because it creates real characters and takes them on emotional journeys that you care about. It's full of these little emotional moments that feel real to us. When it doesn't however, it feels…

I'd say they do, especially in concert with "The Doctor's Wife", "Closing Time" and the opening two-parter. I mean, it's definitely not a perfect series but I'm just saying that the good outweighs the bad and not the other way around like it's usually characterized. And at least neither of those episodes are as bad as…

That's very true. I suppose I was only really comparing Ten and Eleven, baggage-wise. Nine's Time-War ptsd was one of the best, most unexpected angles to tackle the character and I loved series 1 for that. It really is a shame that we couldn't get more of that Doctor. I really think that Nine is the Doctor that works…

See, I feel this way about Ten much more than Eleven. Ten is the shining hero who's sad because he's all alone and no one can love him the way he'll love them. Eleven is the oddball who doesn't quite get people and sometimes screws up royally because of it. I can feel along with that just fine.

I put "Empty Child" second only to "Caves of Androzani" as the best Doctor Who story in the entire (off and on) fifty years of the show. It's a pure distillation of everything that the show is and does well.

Yeah, Eleven was a much more interesting take on the character and more in line with the Doctor that I have in my head than any of the previous new series Doctors. Not only is he delightful and weird and sometimes legitimately scary, but he comes with more complex and character specific emotional baggage. I much…

"The God Complex" gets bumped up a letter grade for me for that scene between the Doctor and Rita where he admits that he's insanely irresponsible for taking people travelling with him like he does and then asks Rita to come with him in the space of ten seconds. That moment explains so much about the Doctor as a…

It kind of annoys me how Series 6 gets written off as "When everything went to shit". I mean, yes, "Let's Kill Hitler" doesn't work AT ALL and "The Wedding of River Song" is less than satisfying, but the rest of the stories of that series are pretty great. I mean, it's the series that has "The Doctor's Wife" in it,…

I dunno, the one-two-three punch of the Pandorica two-parter, "A Christmas Carol" and the Silence two parter are all better than "The Girl in the Fireplace" or "Silence in the Library" for me. As for the "Moffat is a better one-off writer than showrunner" sentiment, there's definitely some truth to it. However, I…