I'm not keen on most of the writing for season 7 so far, so I complain a lot, but I keep hoping it'll get better. Also I really enjoy Matt Smith and I like JLC a lot so far too.

Yeah, this really bothered me too. What gives the leaf more unfulfilled possibilities than any other item? Totally ridiculous.

If you want to watch older serials with a decent pace, stick to the fourth, fifth, and seventh Doctors. 1-3 are much worse in terms of pace (and 6 was weirdly uneven since they didn't seem to know how to manage 45-minute episodes, plus most of them were horribly written). The show really sped up when Tom Baker and…

That would be fantastic. Some other British show are a full 60 minutes long, aren't they? I think The Fades was this length.

"The Valeyard will forever be lost to the dark, dank corners of fanwank,
and for a creature of corrupted potential perhaps that's appropriate."

@avclub-d8c4b9a46ef46a0b3dae8a1e1279a8d8:disqus Giving it to Fox is how we got the 1996 TV movie catastrophe. Fox would undoubtedly demand it be rebooted and turned into a Hero's Journey kind of thing.

You must be a Celine Dion fan or something. Gold's music is horrible gooey saccharine schmaltz. It's too loud, too.

If everybody says that, then they'll just set more episodes on Earth, and even fewer episodes on other planets. I'd rather that they try and fail. I appreciated the effort.

I thought of Farscape while watching this too, but not everybody can have the Jim Henson company's amazing prosthetics and puppetry at their disposal.

Hey, come on, those bubbles in "Time and the Rani" were amazingly good special effects for Doctor Who in 1987. They actually looked better than Merry's bubble in this episode.

I'm not very familiar with this show, but do they show reruns in the same timeslot when there isn't a new episode? Because it's well-known in the TV world that animated shows rerun really really well. Disney probably just figures, why bother running a bunch of new ones in a row if they can get higher ratings for…

Yup. FX has apologized and has put the episode online:

Not Vermont. It's called Mud Season.

I thought I didn't either, but this is getting such rapturous reviews that I might watch it anyway.

No, never. I went to a Doctor Who con circa 1991 and despite the fact that I loved Doctor Who, the other Whovians mostly scared the utter and complete living crap out of me and I've never gone to another one. I understand that there are a LOT more girls in fandom now, but I'm still sincerely puzzled by the idea that…

Players don't do this much anymore because of the hidden immunity idols. Those make it more prudent to blindside people. If Corinne and the Bro-lliance had realized that Corinne was being targeted than Malcolm or Reynold could have conceivably played an idol for Corinne. Not likely, but possible.

Yeah, but will they know when to play them? I sure hope so, especially if it bounces back on S.A.G. And of course also because that would make things a lot more interesting.

Strategy-wise, this season is not becoming as interesting as I'd hoped. Cochran is hugely entertaining and I wouldn't mind seeing him win, but I'd hoped he'd have to fight harder for it. He's already in a dominant alliance with Andrea, Dawn, and Special Agent Goat (and Brenda?), or so it seems. This episode makes it…

Yeah, that positive Dawn edit was WAY WAY too obvious. The editors had no real reason to do that in this episode, but they did it anyway. It's almost like throwing a big spoiler at us. Uck.

Let me offer an opposing view on "Apocalypto." It's gruesome and gory, yet at the same time, the movie is way more into the gruesomeness and gore than almost any other movie I've ever seen. (Clearly I don't watch a lot of horror movies because I know some of them are really into that too.) It's not exactly torture…