Meanwhile, Geordi falls in love with the TARDIS, and gets shot down. Hard.

God, it's been a year since I thought about this properly, but the gist was that the Enterprise-D gets called in to rescue some Federation observers monitoring a pre-spaceflight civilization torn apart by sectarian violence. An away team goes down (fully camoflauged of course with the casual plastic surgery and…

I get where you're coming from, but at the same time, I'm not sure if I agree. There's so many Doctor Who cliffhangers that amount to "And then there was a monster!" only to open up the next episode with "And then they got away!" It seems like not having to dedicate all that screentime to cliffhangers and expository…

I'll do you one better: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

God, that sounds even worse than I imagined. It's nice that they decided to include the TOS cast, though. (Although I'm also kind of annoyed because I had that idea too. Except I was gonna have the Doctor bring the TNG cast to the TOS era in the TARDIS because it turned out the whole plot was set off by Kirk being…

When I heard about that IDW crossover I was really excited until I read the plot synopsis and realized that it was gonna be incredibly lazy ("Hey, didja ever notice that the Borg and the Cybermen are kinda the same?")

I'm not sure if it's fair to blame it on the two episode serials, considering that each episode was twice as long as a regular Doctor Who episode. It was the same amount of story time, just divided up differently. In fact, you could make the argument that the two episode structure actually gave the writers a tiny bit…

It's interesting that you mention him never getting a "Caves of Androzani" because I've seen it argued that a lot of what Seward was doing with the show during the Sixth Doctor era was chasing the high of "Caves". The problem was that he assumed that what made "Caves" work was "Darker and more violent". In comics…

I'm embarrassed to admit how long it took me to realize that the Captain was supposed to be a sci-fi version of a traditional pirate captain. Somehow the robot parrot didn't tip me off.

When the Great Intelligence mentioned him in "Name of the Doctor" I got excited, like maybe they were laying ground for the Valeyard. Incidentally, the specific wording in ToaTL is "somewhere between your 12th and final incarnation", a window that just got flung wide open now that there's a whole new set of…

This is why I really love "The Face of Evil". It's great on its own, but I think it's most interesting because of what it implies about the Doctor's other adventures. The odds that he happened upon the single time things went wrong after he left a planet are astronomically high. It's much more likely that there are a…

I think I've said this before somewhere else here, but I still think it's was an interesting idea, just terribly executed. I like it when the show actually plays with the practicalities of time travel, and the idea of flashing us forward into the show's future is an intriguing one. Ideally, we would see Mel actually…

"Reconstruction is not his job. He’s a spoiler. He’s not a builder or a maintainer, he’s a force of destruction who happens to be mostly on the side of the angels. "

"On those grounds, I can see why the RTD era tends to be considered more accessible and more emotionally rich, as it's fundamentally about humans, whereas the 11th Doctor era is fundamentally about the show and the implications of its own mythos. I find all that stuff endlessly fascinating, but I can understand why…

Yeah, I knew as I was writing that that it didn't sound quite right. "Abstract" is a much better way to phrase it.

Yeah, having the Brig interact with one of the new Doctors would have created a stronger sense of continuity with the original series than any amount of montages of previous Doctors' faces. The Brigadier has come to define Classic Who in my mind just as much as (if not more than) any of the Doctors.

I agree with this list, but I'm not sure how fair it is to compare "Night of the Doctor" to the others, seeing as how a seven minute webisode doesn't have to accomplish all the same goals that a series of television episodes does. Don't get me wrong; I love "The Night of the Doctor", but part of the reason that it's…

I have a theory that Davies had been keeping that pun in his pocket for years. And then he had gotten to the very last two episodes of his run and he realized that he was never going to get another chance to do it, so he just said "Fuck it!" and wrote the most ridiculous episode that he had ever written just to lead…

I feel the same way about Ten's regeneration. I think the thing of it is, when you're watching the show live, you tend not to think of the current Doctor as the "Tenth Doctor" or the "Eleventh Doctor". He's just the Doctor. So when he does something that doesn't fit with your idea of how the character (or the show in…

I wonder if it isn't because his stories are the least beholden to trying to tell the sort of stories that he was involved in on the show. Davison and McCoy's stories tend to take after their respective eras on the show: the Fifth Doctor is the "traditional" Doctor, while the Seventh Doctor is the "experimental"…