"The Unquiet Dead" is pretty good, I think. It was enough to keep me going, anyway, seeing as how it was the first episode of Doctor Who I ever watched.

I dunno. A major part of series 6 is about how the Doctor pretty much hates himself. That's pretty dark.

Capaldi's just not the right type of Doctor for the spoon thing. The thing is, I think there's two kinds of Doctors: the less obviously impressive kind that use deception and clownishness to put their enemies off-guard (like 2, 7, 11), and the more imposing kind that put their enemies off-guard through sheer force of…

I think he carries himself a lot like Pertwee did. He's ditched a lot of the goofiness of some other Doctors and replaced it with more gravitas. They both seem very aristocratic Doctors. Capaldi's definitely much angrier, though. That gives him a tinge of Colin Baker.

That's very true. His scripts definitely do have an Old Who feel to them. Plus, there's something very Old Who just seeing the TARDIS in the middle of some random woods.

This was enjoyable fluff. I don't think Gatiss is ever gonna have a Great Episode in him ("Cold War" is the closest) but he's finally gotten to the point of consistency. Although this one actually reminded me much more of "The Shakespeare Code" than any of his previous efforts.

Yeah, and there's few things darker than the ending to "The Girl Who Waited".

I don't understand how anyone could hate "The Lodger". It's so delightful. I'm on the opposite end with Roberts, though. I think he's one of the few regular writers who writes comedy on Doctor Who well.

Twelve seems to me to be a mix of Pertwee, early Tom Baker, and Colin Baker.

Yeah, this episode felt a LOT like "The Shakespeare Code" to me, down to the portrayals of Robin and William being pretty similar.

Yeah, the Kandy Man is ridiculous, but actually kind of makes sense given the world that the episode establishes.

Neil Cross was the only writer who consistently seemed to get Clara back during series 7. Both "Rings" and "Hide" wrote her well (and I think are both massively underrated).

Does this mean that Hollywood is finally over being scared of the word "Mars"? Or are they gonna pull a John Carter and drop the Mars reference so the movie is just called "The"?

If his attorneys can't help him, Deadmau5 could just summon a horde of angels to take care of it.

Ah, that makes a lot of sense. That ending DOES sound much more effective and actually in line with the story.

I do think they lost track of him a bit in the seventh series. (They lost track of everything in the seventh series) but I feel like that characterization was true for series five and six (hell it's the whole POINT of six), and they got it back for the "of the Doctor" trilogy. Plus, I think Matt's performance just…

Yeah, a lot of Smith's tenure of the show was about the Doctor's reputation and questioning his ability to live up to the legacy he had made for himself (quite by accident).

I think it depends more on BBC giving Big Finish the license to do new series characters, because right now they can't. I'm sure Matt would be up for it though. He seems to miss it already.

Yeah, in "The Day of the Doctor", Eleven is "the man who forgets". If moral hypocrisy is Ten's defining character flaw, then Eleven's is a stubborn refusal to deal with unpleasantness.

Yeah, but the speech just felt like an afterthought, a failed attempt to tie everything together. Not to mention it wasn't really backed up by the story. Their combined power didn't save the day as much as the power of the Doctor's sonic. It's classic telling instead of showing. Meanwhile, "The Lodger" (which I love…