I completely missed Survivor Amazon (and all of 3-7, plus 9, 11, and 12) and was surprised to find that some prominent fans (the Purple Rock podcast guys, I think?) voted it as one of the best seasons of all time. I had been under the mistaken impression that 3-6 were all terrible. (I already know I have to see the…

That's what I would have thought, but in her previous season I remember LOTS of comments from people who loved to hate her, rather than just straight-up hating her like I do. I don't remember if that was here, or at a different site (EW maybe?), but she had fans. There were people who thought she made an interesting,…

Vytas was creeping on the ladies way too hard. Weird and icky. And HANDSY! Get your hands off of them, dude!

Yep, that's "Blink." So you saw probably the most worthwhile thing in season 3 (though I think "Human Nature" gives it a good run for its money). Whether or not you want to actually watch the rest of season 3, or season 4, at all, depends on how much you like Tennant and whether or not you want to see Russell T.…

I believe Netflix's U.S. deal for this show is the same as for most other shows — each season premieres on Netflix about 1-2 weeks before the next season begins airing on cable. So, about 1-2 weeks before season 2 premieres on AMC in 2016 is when all of season 1 will go up onto Netflix USA.

There are several re-entry points to which you can skip ahead — I'd say season 5, where Moffat took over, is probably the best season of the revived show (but be sure to skip "Victory of the Daleks" if you want to avoid the worst one of the season). You can jump straight to the beginning of season 5 ("Eleventh Hour")…

Agreed, but I'm probably also an overly-sensitive sober person. Alcohol just doesn't agree with me. I don't like the taste and it makes me cranky and I usually don't get a buzz.

Actually, lots of moderate, law-abiding Muslims are constantly speaking out against fundamentalism, helping the police, and doing other things to try to "rectify the situation." You're just not paying any attention. It fits your narrative better if you assume they do nothing and that they secretly all want to be…

Shit, even the second episode of the Doctor Who revival in 2005 could afford some spider robots. If Doctor Who can do it, surely this crappy-looking procedural sci-fi crime show can do it! Right? No? No spider robots at all? Well, shit.

Yeah, the movie is extremely peculiar. I was really pulled into the narrative at first, because it seems like it's going somewhere, but then it just abruptly… stops. I wonder if they originally filmed an ending that test audiences hated, and then chopped it off entirely, and instead added that happy ending bit where…

That's what I was thinking too. I wonder if anybody can say for sure, because I'm very curious about this. I really think this is one of the few British shows for which a real writer's room would be a big improvement.

"I really think he goes online and reads his own criticism, or someone in the writer's room just feels like we do."

Yeah, there were huge chunks of this one that were cringe-inducing from all the winking and trying too hard. I didn't mind the parts where the plot actually moved forward, but all of the meandering bits, especially the ultra-goofy stuff with the tank and the guitar, were excruciating. (Though hey, Capaldi sure can…

Woah, was BBC America already doing this in season 7, or is this a recent development? I had BBC America during season 7 and watched it that way instead of getting it by… other means… and I hated how rushed and harried and choppy and poorly-edited so much of the season seemed to be. But that was the actual master…

Sarah Jane and Adric, fine, but don't use that awful departure of Leela as a good example. That was the bad polar opposite of the histrionic departures we're getting these days. They abruptly had a strong female character married off to some random guy. The producers seemed to be giving Leela the finger. They could…

Yeah, I'm probably just being paranoid.

Hmm, is *this* episode this year's Doctor-lite entry? I wasn't that crazy about the tone of most of this episode, and I agree that some of it felt pretty tired and would've fizzled entirely if not for Michelle Gomez, but it's ballsy to make your season premiere the Doctor-lite episode, if that's what it was.

The dialogue was murky but at least the music wasn't as schmaltzy as usual.

Strongly agreed. I'm not sure Moffat remembers how to write a two-parter. The idea that you could fit in TWICE as much PLOT as in a single-parter doesn't ever seem to occur to him anymore.

I don't think I liked that very much, except the first few minutes and last few minutes. At times it felt like Moffat doing his best impression of RTD. IMHO there are a lot of pros and cons to Moffat, but one of the biggest pros in my book is that he's *NOT RTD.* Especially that he's not as self-indulgent or operatic…