A lot of the EDAs are pretty insubstantial, storywise. This is probably due to the story length, because the two-parters tend to be better. But Lucie Miller as a character is really great and the series as a whole builds to a rather remarkable conclusion.

I did feel the word "non-violent" wasn't quite right when I typed it, but I couldn't think of a better one. Maybe I should have specified physical violence. I definitely agree that Seven is the most interesting incarnation (and quite possibly my favorite as well).

One of the many reasons that the very pointedly non-violent Seventh Doctor and the explosion-happy Ace are probably my favorite Doctor/Companion pair.

I love that scene with the yo-yo. It's pretty indicative of everything that was great about that season of the show, down the the wood panelled TARDIS control room, which is one of my all-time favorites. Season 14 is probably the front-to-back greatest single stretch of Doctor Who in the history of the show.

I also especially love the sheer juxtaposition of these serious and very recognizably human characters and their outrageous outfits. It's almost a metaphor for the show as a whole.

Or maybe every once in a while we get a double-team review.

Whether or not it's socially acceptable, can we agree it's lame and unfunny?

I feel like the writers didn't know what to do with the Ponds in series 7 and it led to a really disjointed, lackluster group of episodes. It seemed liked the show was just running out the clock until their exit so that they could get on with moving the story forward.

I feel like I never gave Miles Davis proper shrift.

This story would allow them to part on better terms than they did in "Death in Heaven", finally telling each other the truth. But I see your point, and I'm definitely warming to the idea of her staying around. I guess I'm just wary of keeping Clara longer than her story requires. The Ponds stayed half a series too…

One of my favorite things about the Twelfth Doctor is all the hints at his face blindness. The fact that Time Lords change their faces coupled with their telepathic abilities means that they wouldn't really have to rely on faces to distinguish people the way that humans do.

If and when you get to the New Eighth Doctor Adventures, you'll eventually hit "Relative Dimensions". I like it as a Christmas story for no other reason than it tells the sort of Christmas story that Doctor Who gets to tell: the domestic drama.

Hell, I'd say Chimes is tied with "A Christmas Carol". I listened to it again last night, and it never ceases to amaze me. Flip-Flop is also great, but I had honestly forgotten it had anything to do with Christmas.

I feel like there are some people who locked themselves into disliking Clara back during her time with Eleven (for very good reasons) and then carried those feelings into series 8 even as she blossomed into an actual character.

As much as I love Jenna Coleman and Clara, I felt like this episode would have worked so much better as a coda for the character than as a new beginning. In fact, the abruptness of the reveal at the end combined with the way Shona seemed to be clearly set up as a new companion makes me think the rumors about Coleman's…

Shona was basically a TV version of Lucie Miller from the Big Finish audios and I loved her for that.

I don't think so. The way that the episode stressed that time travel was possible in dreams seemed to be setting up the "this is Clara at the end of her life" ending.

Star Trek Into Utero

Unlike that Andrew WK fella. He seems to be a great booster of the fete.

Same here. I knew the character and thought it was going to be pretty diverting. But totally exceeded my expectations and wound up being the funniest movie I've seen in a long time.