I will defend "The God Complex" with my dying breath. It's really rather great. That and "Hide". I have an irrational amount of love for "Hide".

That never bothered me. (Well, it did bother me because I never really cared for the whole "The Doctor's still pining for Rose" plotline.) But the two sides to Martha's character don't feel irreconcilable to me. Love makes otherwise smart people into idiots all the time.

Yeah, that's probably the second greatest run and you could switch them around and it wouldn't make much difference. The series three run, however, gets points off for not actually having the Doctor in them for most of the time. Meanwhile, the series four run gets bonus points for having Donna Noble.

Oh, are we doing this? *opens up carefully curated word file*

I don't think that her characterization was all that inconsistent. She was always shown to be the smart, capable no-nonsense pragmatist and that her crush on the Doctor was her weak spot. And at the end of the series, she even deals with that in a smart, pragmatic way. I think Martha's problem is just that "smart,…

Yeah, if you want to talk about the apex of Tennant's run, I think you have to go with the one-two-three-four punch of "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead"-"Midnight"-"Turn Left". It's probably as great as RTD's era ever got.

To be fair, though, this is probably the worst example possible. I think the monsters on Doctor Who work more often then not. Whereas on Supernatural, I get really tired of "Oh, it turns out this mythological beast is just a guy in a suit!"

Isn't the "every episode must have a monster" thing a BBC directive? I remember Richard Curtis saying as much in an interview somewhere.

There are some episodes of Doctor Who that I can rationally discuss what went wrong with them and how they could have been fixed. And there are some Doctor Who episodes where I just can't be bothered to care. Then there's this two-parter, where I get an irrational sense of glee from coming up with more and more…

Everything was generally stronger tonight across the board, but I laughed harder at the bunny saying "Also I AM THE ZODIAC KILLER" than anything else I saw on TV this week.

The line about "hobgoblins" being just another monster's name with "hob" stuck to it was funny as hell. As was the line about "hobguards".

Hobgoblins is such a great MST3K. "It's the Eighties! Do a lotta coke and vote for Ronald Reagan!" might be my all-time favorite riff.

I can see him playing so many things: a Man of Letters in a flashback, a crossroads demon, some retired angel like Metatron or Gabriel… I just really want him on the show now. Especially playing off Crowley.

When the first thing we saw of Magnus was that bowtie, I really wanted it to be Paul F. Tompkins. I still really want that.

I like Clara's theme a great deal, but I really love "Trenzalore" which has become my favorite thing that he's written. The Akhaten music is good too.

Series 7 was pretty uneven, writing-wise, but I actually thought it was Gold's strongest since he started writing for the show. There's some really great music in there.

I've been meaning to sample some Seventh Doctor Big Finish stories. I've only really listened to Eight's and "The Light at the End" so far, and I really love McCoy's Doctor. I might have to give these a listen.

"HARVEY WALLBANGER!"

I hadn't heard that but now I really need that to happen. He also wrote a novelization of "Shada", making that the 704th adaptation of "Shada".

I can deal with the "greatest men who ever lived" thing considering the guy who's saying it is the guy who gives the tours at the Van Gogh exhibit. Plus, I think the first trip to the museum only makes sense in the context of the second one. I'm not taking Nighy's assessment of Van Gogh as something we're definitely…