Evelyn is best when she's fulfilling the role that Clara's been fulfilling in series 8: taking the Doctor to task for being an ass.

I've often thought about taking some classic serials and editing them to movie length, tightening up the pacing a bit as I go. Some of them could really use it.

If I had to guess, these reviews probably aren't that popular at all. Which, honestly, is to be expected. Classic Who is definitely a niche thing and is never going to pull in the traffic that other TV reviews will.

At this point, anyone else is going to be a disappointment.

So does this mean that we finally have the technology to bring a proper Zaphod Beeblebrox to the screen?

True fact: I just turned in a paper for a television history class about the Dana Carvey show.

One of the things that I liked the most about "Robot of Sherwood" was, at the end, as it was drawing a parallel between Robin and the Doctor, the script made sure to acknowledge both characters privileged upbringings. So I'm glad this is a thread that's being expounded on.

Yeah, but she still respects and identifies with her father to the point where the Doctor's attitude could possibly offend her, or at least ring false enough to her to merit a comment.

I don't know if it's just an age thing, but the Twelfth Doctor is the only Doctor who could not only pull that off, but make it seem completely in character. Capaldi's Doctor at times does come off like a cynical baby boomer. (Shades of George Carlin, come to think of it.)

I know what you mean. "Closing Time" gets a lot of flack for its plot, but the scene with the Doctor talking to Alfie is one of the great character beats for Eleven.

Yeah, I'm really looking forward to listening to those. Roberts and Tom Baker seem like a match made in… well, I prefer to call it the Nethersphere.

The one thing that I feel like series 7 did better than this current series is music. Murray Gold had finally gotten to a place where he was knocking it out of the park and now the music feels so anonymous.

I feel like the show is consciously pulling back on the scale after the bigness of the Eleventh Doctor years. Also, I'm pretty sure they had to cut some budget stuff in order to get twelve episodes in a row without splitting the series again.

While the Hinchcliffe-Holmes era is definitely the most consistent era of Who, I have to admit that the last two seasons are probably my favorite. I love Seven and Ace and just really appreciate all the weird shit that they were trying to do with the show at that time.

"Silver Nemesis" is much more watchable than its reputation suggests. It actually reminds me a lot of Eleventh Doctor-era Who, what with its clever dialogue, time travel plotting, and focus on the mysteries of the Doctor. Hell, it even has a "Doctor who?".

Yeah, I thought it all worked well. It helped that the more angry bits were all directed at the interpersonal drama between him and Danny, whereas the more whimsical bits were him doing his general Doctor thing.

Proposition: While Gareth Roberts isn't necessarily the best new series writer, he is the best writer of the Doctor as a character.

In a bit of coincidence, today was the day that I realized that the new series had already begun and watched the first two episodes. I really loved Mitchell's description of the terror of growing up a timorous child. I swear to god there is no human being on the planet that I relate to as much as David Mitchell.

Oh god, the first time I saw that was one of those laugh-until-you're-physically-sick moments.

I can't think of a better love interest that Jack had than Avery. Not only was she the best fit for Jack, but she was a funny character in her own right. And Elizabeth Banks was definitely the funniest actress to play Jack's love interest.