Very good Sir. We are a discreet establishment. And might I recommend the Chateau Micturation de Centurion? The AD108 is a cheeky young vintage, but very full-bodied and has just the right frisson on the palate to complement the glowing tentacles. Oh, do you wish to pick your own beast of darkness from the aquarium,…

Vortex-fried calamari in darkness slime sauce. Excellent choice Madam, and for Sir?

I agree that the 4-part format was the optimal and it's interesting that the show's most popular period coincided with adoption of 4s with a 6 to finish. Also felt that 6-parters could drag and the longer ones, oh sure. War Games was good but really didn't need four hours to tell…
But I also think it's about changing…

Oh, I hear you, and some of my favourite classic plots have more holes than a Celtic hillside - sure, you look past them and enjoy the ride. And I wish I could reverse the polarity of the neutron flow… it would have made my life so much easier…
I've always regarded the show as sci-fant, not sci-fi.
But there are…

I just don't get why everyone's drooling over this. The portal doesn't make sense, nor does the solution to the problem. Human lifespans are too brief to defend the gate for long, yet some plucky Romano-Celtic Scooby gang can do it? Won't it still need to be "vented" from time to time?
Nor does it make sense that a…

The monks do seem to have a very Mondasian way of talking - open mouth, sentence comes out, close mouth.

That reference to creating a hybrid will be back. Especially since Davros dropped in the notion of a Time Lord prophesy a couple of episodes ago. We were supposed to think (as did Davros) that would be about a Dalek/Time Lord hybrid, but now…
So far, one of the best seasons in the new run. Possibly because they aren't…

It's fascinating stuff.
Haven't seen the previews but it's fun to speculate and I could imagine something like the following:
The cliffhanger will be left to hang and the action will cut straight back to present-day Skaro.
It's pretty heavily implied that Missy's vortex thingie has been adapted to transport when the…

RE sound - agreed.
The actual mix is only part of the problem. They have had a tendency to really over-spot the music and Murray Gold has had a tendency to swamp every single cue with lush orchestration.
To be fair, this does seem to have been toned down a bit recently. Perhaps it's finally been explained to someone…