She would find the daleks so upsetting.

Okay, let's go through this:

But that doesn't make it a better story. It just makes it a shitty story with a cop out excuse.

Because this was all explained very quickly at the last minute after forty-four minutes of illogical nonsense. It wasn't like the end monologue gave us the final piece of the puzzle. It was like we were given pieces from a bunch of different puzzles and then, after an hour, were told "It's supposed to be a landscape."

This was my feeling. I couldn't actually be entertained because I had no idea what the fuck was going on, and the bits that I did understand were stupid.

The difference is that statues aren't, you know, kinda gross.

I've been listening to How Did This Get Made? nonstop recently, so the whole time I was watching this, I could hear Jason Mantzoukas shouting "This is next level bonkers!"

I've just recently began listening to HDTGM obsessively, and a big reason why is June Diane Raphael. She is just so adorable. Her and Casey Wilson are a great match.

I think it was mostly in the visual aesthetic. The iconography and the videos of Osgood definitely had the vibe.

Capaldi is KILLING it this series. That monologue was amazing. Capaldi hasn't been as good at the big, boastful "I'm the Doctor" speeches that Tennant and Smith trafficked in, but he's amazing at doing impassioned Picard speeches.

I'm slightly surprised that both episodes are inverting the classic Doctor Who episode title format and not called "The Invasion/Inversion of the Zygons"

I'd love this, because I've always considered Ten to be Six but with a better outfit and good PR.

I'm gonna need to watch this one again, because I spent the first half being underwhelmed and the second half enjoying it a lot. I do think the pacing of it was weird, though. It felt less like a story and more like a collection of things happening.

This means he probably isn't writing for Doctor Who again any time soon, which is a shame, because I really like the episodes he wrote for it.

Moffat lies all the time. You should take anything he says before an episode airs with a humongous grain of salt.

I'd argue the Doctor's whole thing is kinda midlife crisis. He's this super old guy who constantly hangs around young people and acts young to not feel so old. Hell, there was even a joke about it in "The Day of the Doctor".

It's also got "Superstar", "Pangs", "Something Blue", "A New Man" and the Faith two-parter. Plus, I don't think the show ever used Spike better than it did in season four.

Maisie sits inside your head
Maisie lives among the dead
Maisie sees you in your bed
and eats you when you're sleeping

I love it. It allows for more deliberately paced stories. (Like this one, for example, which I think was pretty perfectly paced.) Plus, it gives us cliffhangers, which are sort of a cornerstone of Doctor Who.

4 has too many great standalones to be dull, though. It's also the funniest season overall. That gives it a pass for me.