Well yeah, but she did live with Ted for at least ten years. It's not like she fell in love only to get diagnosed the next.

Yeah, but the show never really follows through with that, I think. And it definitely seems to agree with the idea of them as star-crossed lovers more than anything less positive, especially considering SPOILERS the end of series 4.

It really does. I remember after watching "Day of the Doctor" wondering what RTD's fiftieth anniversary special would have looked like, and I came to the conclusion that it would look a lot like "Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End" and being really glad we got what we got instead..

I really used to hate "Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End" because of everything involving the metacrisis Doctor, the Donna flipping switches conclusion, and just the way that it's too interested in shoehorning in every single character from the past four years to tell an interesting story. I've come around a lot on it,…

It's definitely the most competent of the RTD finales. Which is probably why I forget about it and don't count it among my favorite episodes of the show. It's so workmanlike. It's definitely better than "Bad Wolf", but I don't enjoy any of it as much as "Parting of the Ways".

Agreed. Nine and Rose complimented each other really well, but Ten and Rose could be a bit grating. I'm definitely with Alasdair that they seemed to bring out the worst in each other. Which, ironically, is why I'm able to buy the idea of the Doctor being in love with Rose a lot easier than he is. It's exactly the sort…

Chris Hardwick reminds me of a nerdier Jimmy Fallon. He's not tremendously funny, but he's very enthusiastic and surrounds himself with talented people.

Since it was mentioned in the article, can I just say how surprised I am by how regularly I watch @midnight? Even with my higher tolerance for Chris Hardwick than most, I figured it was going to be incredibly forgettable and gone in a week. Yet I end up watching it whenever I watch Colbert live. Not only does he have…

I laughed at this one a lot, but I think that had a lot to do with it having a pretty great lead-in Community, as I don't remember anything particularly revelatory about it. Though I did really like Tom's iTunes analogy leading into the sudden realization that he was going to die one day.

Two-thirds of the way through and I started making "Mixology Certification" comparisons as well, though I think this episode wasn't quite as emotionally real but also was funnier. Duncan talking about "British" things will never not make me laugh. Increased John Oliver is helping to cover the loss of Donald Glover.

I'd take Down on the Upside over Superunknown any day. (Though I'd probably take Badmotofinger over both of them) Still, "Tighter and Tighter" is probably the best thing that Kim Thayill did.

Is it actually made up of members of Les Savy Fav and Girls Against Boys? Because I've been waiting for Les Savy Fav to get their shit together and record another album already and this isn't helping.

Can somebody please remove these cutleries from my knees?

God, I hadn't even THOUGHT about Jon Stewart. That one is going to break me. So much of my personal development has been tied to regular viewership of The Daily Show.

This album is putting a real dent in my "Every band that played at the Bronze was killed by vampires and that's why we never saw them again" theory.

This album is putting a real dent in my "Every band that played at the Bronze was killed by vampires and that's why we never saw them again" theory.

Yeah, I rarely listen to any Primus albums these days that aren't Frizzle Fry or Sailing the Seas of Cheese, but, damn, if I don't enjoy the shit of those two.

And it works against the idea of the Doctor as an anti-authoritarian figure, which always been something that's been pretty central to his characterization.

Yeah, I'm all for the Doctor being more mysterious, but I always thought the idea of him as a reincarnation of a founding member of Time Lord society kind of broke the character a little bit.

Yeah, he was definitely playing things close to chest a lot of the time. There's a lot of McCoy stories that end with the Doctor revealing that he had a complex plan this whole time and then giving a big speech to save the day. Which I think is something that Matt Smith's Doctor did a lot as well. The Silence…