That's true. Which is why the Brig never showing up in the new series is so disappointing to me. It would have created such a great continuity with the classic show.

I seriously doubt it. That story ended with Eleven.

But the fact that the ending was throw away and didn't involve the tug-of-war at all is why it sucks. The story is structured so that the bit with the Shakri is the climax, but the climax has nothing to do with what the rest of the episode is about, which, as you said, was the tug-of-war of the show's central…

Sometimes I get a hint of Tom Baker's voice in Capaldi's voice as well. It definitely helps the association.

To me, Eleven was portrayed as a guy who was purposefully running around and acting silly because he didn't want to think about all the terrible shit he's done in his life. Which is a pretty irresponsible and flawed thing to do. And yeah, there was a lot of talk about how great The Doctor was, but it was always more…

See, it's funny, because when Ten was the Doctor, I felt exactly this way about Ten. Ten got turned into a Christ figure like every other episode. It wasn't until after his run was over that I was able to look at his hypocrisy as a character trait and not a problem with the show itself.

I read that scene sort of like he's a bit scared to take her on. He needs a companion who isn't a soldier because he's too much of one himself. He's afraid that if he doesn't have a "carer" on board, he'll go too far.

It's funny, because I would say those exact things about "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship".

Yeah, I think it makes him a more interesting character. And it makes sense considering how egotistical the Tenth Doctor was. Ten was probably the most egotistical Doctor since Six (hell, he's MORE egotistical than Six at times).

"The Power of Three" frustrates me so, because it's a great episode up until the climax that decides to be about something completely different than what the rest of the episode was about. If the resolution in any way had involved the Doctor's time on Earth with the Ponds, it would have meant something. But instead it…

I've actually learned to enjoy him more once I came to that conclusion. It makes him seem like more of a flawed character than he did when I watched him the first time around.

"The End of the World" is middling, but I agree about "Tainted Love".

It's gotten to the point where I consider Ten's moral hypocrisy to be his defining character trait.

It really does look like a TARDIS, but I hope it isn't the Master. There's no way that I can see Moffat-written female Master not being a trainwreck.

And just after Ser Dontos in "Deep Breath". I kind of hope it becomes a running gag that they cast and then kill off a GoT actor once an episode.

As much as I enjoyed Capaldi in "Deep Breath", the whole opening conversation with Journey basically cemented his take as the Doctor for me. Him berating her into saying please was just wonderful, and the fact that he's holding those coffee cups while he's doing it was just the icing on the cake.

Whenever I see his name, I hear it in my mind with the same inflection as "Nicolas Fucking Refn".

I'll never forget one time when I thought to myself, "That sounds good, but I'm wary of anything that makes me feel better about myself" and then I realized how fucked up that sounded.

That bit about about the constant war with yourself about if your impulses are reasonable or not really speaks to me. The worst part of depression is that it's a sickness that affects the brain, aka the part of you that figures out if you're sick or not. So you lose the ability to trust your own self-assessment.

Nah, I'm sure they're already doing that for season six of Community.