As much as I dislike Revolution, dramas can work fine at 8/7c. Lost had at least one very strong season at 8/7c. Once Upon a Time does well at 8/7c. Add those to NCIS. That's a lot of exceptions to your weird rule. 8/7c is just a good slot for comedies and reality shows, and there's more of those lately, but there's…

Moving shows works fine in many cases. Grimm's temporary move to Tuesday has worked well so far.

I'm baffled that they would put the Michael J. Fox show at 9:30 instead of 9:00 as a lead-in for a new show. I would think MJF would be a self-starter. What's that about?

Scrawler, really? You of all people? I enjoy a lot of your comments across the A.V. Club, so I'm surprised. Do you really want the entire show to lack subtext and have the more simple-minded, goofy, Saturday-morning-cartoon flavor of episodes like "The Unicorn and the Wasp" and "The Idiot's Lantern" or to be…

Have you gone back and watched any of season one of B5 or season one of DS9 lately? B5 was appallingly terrible in S1, and DS9 S1 was pretty clunky and uneven. Defiance is better than THAT so far, at least. I'm hoping Defiance will follow a similar trajectory of both, and get really amazing over time. Who knows? We'll…

This fucking show used an apostrophe incorrectly! BASTARDS! Did anybody else notice that? Something like "he love's sex" or some such incredibly aggravating half-illiterate bullshit appeared on the screen as a tag. (A tag? Is that what you call it? One of those pop-ups that introduces the people represented by the…

I actually got into a big argument with somebody over this about eight or 10 years ago. I was on your side, that it should be the other way around.

Fuck Chicago! Come back to New York RIGHT NOW, you fucking shit-eating assholes! All of you! NOW.

"…keep Moffat until he dies." Ha ha. I would agree, except that the quality of Moffat's work is deteriorating. I loved "Asylum" in execution, but the Daleks' behavior didn't make much sense. "Angels Take Manhattan" was even worse, with its gigantic plot holes which some of us have hashed over here many times — the…

I hate those kids too, and kids in general, but I'm hopeful that Gaiman's writing, at least, will handle them well next week. Unfortunately the child actors seemed really annoying here. I hope the director for the next episode is a strong one who can rein them in and get better performances out of them. I dug "The…

Counterpoint: IMHO Gatiss's Doctor Who New Adventures books from the 90s (such as "Nightshade") are incredibly dull and boring. They had their fans but they were extremely traditional and retro and completely lacking in any sort of ambition whatsoever. This works especially poorly with the seventh Doctor. And most of…

The makeup and prosthetics could be prohibitive for a Strax and Vastra spin-off. Don't they have to sit in a makeup chair for hours and hours every day while all the stuff is applied?

@avclub-b9a25e422ba96f7572089a00b838c3f8:disqus "Girl Who Waited" probably counts as a Doctor-lite episode for production purposes, because Matt Smith largely just had to record some voiceovers, which is relatively easy to do, for those scenes where you don't see him. I would assume they filmed "Closing Time" at the…

So, a lot of you liked this episode, but I hope nobody is still saying that Mark Gatiss could be the next showrunner. Or do you want all episodes to COMPLETELY lack ambition and subtext?

Malcolm's vote? No way, Malcolm voted for Denise to win the million last season even though he was annoyed that she voted him out. He respects the game and doesn't really respect Eddie.

Good point — I noticed in the past couple of weeks that he was having some really good moments again. Clearly it was because he was pissed off about shit going down in the world. So… he's like the Incredible Hulk of news satire?

I wonder if John Oliver may actually surpass Jon Stewart during this stint. I still like Jon Stewart, but not as much as I used to. Sometimes lately he gets a bit lazy and smug. Colbert is so much better lately.

Hmm, maybe that's why they haven't done it lately and probably won't do it this time — because it would expose the fact that some of these fans aren't fans, just lame-ass recruits.

@avclub-a1967e6de4ca99fb2635d94b99453928:disqus That would be awesome. OTOH assuming they vote out Reynold first, that twist could work against Eddie, because none of the other six would have time to plot to blindside each other (unless Probst drops hints about a twist of some kind and they suss it out). So they would…

That's the old-school approach to TV, and these days, we're so used to big finales that we forget it was almost ALWAYS like that in the old days. Shows didn't end with big season finales or series finales. They just petered out, like the original Star Trek. Wasn't The Fugitive was the first U.S. drama (non-soap) to…