I don't know if Moffat is a great showrunner (tastes vary), but I have a hard time with the idea that he's not a good showrunner. Even just beyond Doctor Who, which has had its ups and downs under his tenure, but has generally been pretty good, this guy has run like six other shows, several of which (Coupling,…

No, he really isn't. It's worth noting, though, that he's already appearing as a character in novels by the inventor of historical fiction (Sir Walter Scott), so Who is in pretty good company here.

Conceived that way, but never actually was that way. What does one learn about history from that stupid cavemen story?

"The Aztecs" which seems to get the praise as the serious, history-minded historical from the First Doctor years (along with, I guess, The Massacre, but nobody's actually seen The Massacre), is a pretty dubious reading of Aztec history. I'd kind of rather they not even bother trying to be historically accurate.

Whether the Doctor lost a regeneration will be determined 40 years from now by what the then showrunner wants to do about a new regeneration cycle. Or it will never be determined because the show will be off the air before it matters.

Well, the Max Rager CEO played him two phone conversations - one between himself and Liv, and one between Liv and Ravi, I think(? Or was it Live and Clive?) The common denominator, at any rate, was Liv, so surely the sensible conclusion is that her phone is bugged.

Major doesn't know who Liv's roommate is, does he?

It wasn't about white vs. black (this is Seattle, after all; everyone's white), but mostly about them being relatively well off. And while of course there are rich white drug dealers, I suspect they're generally much less likely to get murdered than poor black ones. I remember here in Philly a couple of years back a…

I kind of assume that Clive has a sense at this point that Liv picks up personality traits of murder victims when she's doing her thing. Because he'd have to be pretty stupid not to have a sense of that.

Before 1815 (and there really haven't been a huge number of wars *since* 1815), Italy and Germany were getting invaded by foreign armies a lot more than France was.

What in the world are you even talking about? Have you ever actually looked at the history of France?

The Kill the Moon exteriors were shot in Lanzarote, I thought.

Having a second TARDIS regular was business as usual from Vampires of Venice in early Season 5 through to Angels Take Manhattan at the end of 7A. Why does everyone always act as though Rory was not a thing?

The transition from the regular part to the middle eight is the best part of the theme song. I don't get why they mostly got rid of it so early on (the Pertwee era, maybe, with a brief revival in the early JNT years?)

I suspect that most time travel stories have been in written form rather than televisual or cinematic. The special effects budget for novels set in the distant future and novels set in the present day turns out to be the same. So, I mean, while certainly we do see the kind of thing you're describing, I'm not willing…

Because if they'd not had the Doctor's ghost, it wouldn't have been obvious he'd find a way to escape?

Two parters have often been the most memorable parts of the new show, but there have been lots and lots of mediocre two parters besides Aliens of London/World War Three. Pretty much one every season, in fact - Rise of the Cybermen/Age of Steel in Season 2, Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks in Season 3, The…

Toby Whithouse is not Steven Moffat. In fact, the extent to which Whithouse was pleased with himself about the bootstrap paradox thing is one of the clearest indications that this was not written by Moffat, whose episodes generally feature four or five bootstrap paradoxes before breakfast.

Moffat hate is a very weird thing. I don't fully understand it. I especially don't get how anyone can look at the Davies era and not think that Moffat is pretty clearly the best thing about it. If there's anything that might put the Davies era ahead of the Moffat era, it's that Davies had Moffat to reliably write a…

Well, right. I was obviously thinking of actors who held the part as a regular gig, not ones who appeared in one special with no prospect of further appearances.