Ah, good point. That somehow didn't occur to me. Things often do badly on Halloween.

Egad, BBC America can't be too happy — Showbuzz Daily reports that this episode dropped to an 0.19 rating in adults 18-49, with only 585,000 total viewers. WTF, American public? Maybe the average viewer isn't into the two-parters?

Let's be honest, towards the end of the Pertwee era, UNIT was often portrayed as a bunch of numbskulls. They were best in Pertwee's first season, when the show was briefly very adult and thoughtful, before the writers and producers started dumbing things down a bit.

Apparently those were the original titles. I liked them better that way — that makes "Inversion" funnier. For some reason they changed it to just "Zygon Invasion"/"Zygon Inversion" a few weeks ago.

Good Glob, you said it. Those RTD cliffhangers sure were repetitive. They just kept hitting the same points HARD on the head over and over again. So repetitive! Like we're a bunch of dipshits. Over and over. Repeatedly. Like we're morons. Again and again. So repetitive.

I'm guessing that was Spain again maybe? The show has filmed in Spain a lot in recent years ("A Town Called Mercy" and others). It definitely wasn't New Mexico — it was almost passable, but the solid line in the middle of the road was a dead giveaway. We Americans do NOT have solid lines in the middle of our roads.…

The issue with people 50+ is probably more that most of them watch lots of non-prime-time TV, while 18-49ers don't so much, so why bother advertising during expensive prime time original programming when you can get the older viewers during cable news, early-evening broadcast news, daytime TV, late-night TV, reruns of…

Certain states offer big tax incentives for filming. Georgia, New York, and Louisiana are probably the three most successful at this, but New Mexico, Florida, and some others have also done reasonably well. When Longmire began, New Mexico was surely the most plausible of these states when it comes to passing for…

I only watched the first few episodes of S1 on A&E and wasn't too impressed, other than appreciating the lovely New-Mexico-standing-in-for-Wyoming locations. Does the show get better after that? Does Katee Sackhoff get more to do in later seasons?

You're not the only one. When I was a kid, I read Communion and it scared the ever-living shit out of me. Being immobilized, abducted, and experimented on like a lab animal is never not terrifying.

Yeah, the show's numbers are sliding alarmingly. Methinks ABC might be trying to save face, or looking forward to a possible rejiggering of the show. "Highest-rated new series among adults 18-49" is really misleading since any calculation of an average is going to take the much-higher-rated early episodes into…

Ha ha. Actually the real reason is that people 50+ are all watching Fox News all day long, so why not advertise there cheaply instead of during expensive prime time shows?

At the time, I really liked the Teen Wolf cartoon. I wonder whether or not it was actually any good. I liked a lot of stupid crap back then. One of the weirdest cartoons (also on CBS) around then was Galaxy High School, where two Earthlings got into an exchange program to go to a high school in space with aliens.…

Nah, the basic cable channels like TNT just go ahead and flip everybody off by airing only the half that they have the rights to, and ignoring the rest, leaving it as an incomplete crossover. They've done this many times with the L&O-Homicide crossovers. You'd think somebody would've thought to make the appropriate…

+1000 upvotes ROTFL

"It’s a confident performance, but his stubble is doing roughly half the work." BWAHAHAHA. Nice one.

Eh, I don't know. He was pretty laughable as a serial-killer-of-the-week on Criminal Minds (the only episode of that dreck I've ever watched all the way through) but that could've just been the shitty script.

Opinions vary wildly, and there doesn't seem to be a serious consensus here (unlike with, say, The Flash season 1, which most people love, or Arrow season 3, which most people hate). If you liked Eccleston and not Tennant, I'd say you're somewhat less likely to enjoy Matt Smith and more likely to enjoy the pricklier…

Depends on whether or not she survived the Time War, eh?

The script was quite good, but that motherfucking piece of putrid goat shit Murray Gold really outdid himself this week with the mind-bogglingly schmaltzy and insipid musical drivel. It was INCREDIBLY distracting. It wasn't mixed quite so loud as in some previous episodes, but it was drippier than ever. I mean, Jesus,…