Back then the showrunner duties were not all lumped onto one person, but were split between the "producer" and the powerful script editor, who was sort of the head writer (Holmes in that case, perhaps the best head writer the show ever had). Makes much more sense than what we have today, where a total workaholic has…

As much as everybody likes "City of Death," Douglas Adams and Graham Williams will NEVER be forgiven by certain hardcore fans for THAT scene where Romana seemingly ploughs through a bunch of regenerations for no reason except to show off. A thousand different fanwank handwave excuses have been invented for that scene…

Yeah, although I know a working-class white lady still living in Queens (way out in Bayside), it's still strange nowadays to watch something set in Queens that's not super diverse. Queens is said to have more languages spoken per square mile than anywhere else in the world, and Flushing is the most interesting of all…

Yeah, I was trying (and failing) to joke about the hypothetical proofreaders who are falling down on the job. Clearly there are no proofreaders here or at most other publications these days. I'm a less-experienced proofreader (among other things) and I can't find work, so this sad truth is staring me right in the face…

Agreed, Keith was absolutely hilarious on his original season and we need to get more commentary from him.

Man, the proofreaders are really falling down on the job here. There is NO APOSTROPHE in "yipee-ki-yays," you motherfuckers! Next time you have the chance to kill an errant apostrophe, don’t hesitate!

Wait, what? How is that even possible? Maybe I just have really dry skin but (time for extra bonus oversharing) lotion is freaking essential for me — I had Traumatic Masturbation Syndrome for years and years because I couldn't figure out how to do it with my hands. I didn't realize I was supposed to use lotion. Once I…

That is a very boring approach and you invest too much in titles. One of the best Doctor Who stories ever made was "The Caves of Androzani," which gave us loads of detail on the antagonists and not all that much about the fifth Doctor and Peri, yet it was brilliant. I don't often say "classic Doctor Who did it better"…

But I'm not even talking about any expensive SHOWING of alien cultures. My suggestions above are budget-neutral: Just give us some extra dialogue providing some *exposition* about the villain's culture, or his motives, or SOMETHING.

This was so disappointing — lots of pointless fluff and the villain seemed like (even more of) an afterthought (than usual). There was no satisfying explanation for why
he'd turn his victims into ghosts. And yet there was plenty of wasted time in this episode where some discussion of the Fisher King's motivations and…

I didn't think of that because I've tried very hard to forget everything about "The End of Time, Part I." I enjoy my sanity.

Thanks but wild horses and wild boars and wild horse-boars with bees in their mouths couldn't drag me back. Quentin wasn't actually my biggest problem with the first book by a large margin. This is very subjective, so explaining it is difficult, but none of the settings seemed remotely convincing or interesting to me.…

Good call — that location looked so eerie and weird that I didn't think about how quarry-like it was for more than a moment. But yeah, I bet it was.

But we haven't really had many serious season-long arcs; most of the so-called "arcs" are just scattered scenes were hints are dropped about the season finale. Only seasons five and six had anything resembling real season arcs. And maybe season eight, but that was also mostly just a few scenes with Missy here and…

I'm genuinely shocked at the lack of quarries in new Who! Have we had ANY quarries? Even one? It's very disappointing. (I'm being sarcastic; it's not actually disappointing at all.)

Yeah, I really disliked the first book and all of its irritable, pain-in-the-ass characters and its unconvincing dark, gritty fantasy world. I'm totally baffled by all of the praise for it and the fact that it did well enough to spawn a couple of sequels. Yack! This trailer makes the TV version look potentially less…

Oh, Ignatiy has done TV work previously? That explains it, then. I thought he came across as unusually charismatic in this video — for a film critic, that is. Heh.

I believe commenter @avclub-eead9509d2e35299ba595cee2f977be4:disqus was the first to suggest Dewey, or at least the first in this particular thread, so neither of us was as clever as him.

Yes! An Ike for Sheriff!

Huge bummer. I love Forster but he's a very different presence than Ontkean, and wouldn't work as Truman IMHO. The recasting thing is too retro for me. Or maybe I should say it takes the show too literally into "local" soap opera territory, as in OUR universe's soaps, instead of staying in the awesome mystical ominous…