I am also fairly sure that NFET is right about how this works. Scripts are commissioned, and Moffat gives notes back, rewrites are done, the story is filmed. There's no writer's room. Davies, as I understand it, basically did full rewrites on his own to every script submitted, with the exception of Moffat's, but my…

Well, yes, but the Tumblr anti-Moffat crowd is strongly committed to taking everything out of context.

He slept with a lot more alien ladies, though.

I think this is a story that could only be for that specific actor, really. It's not that I couldn't see Ten or Eleven doing this. It's that I can't see Tennant or Smith pulling it off.

Stop thinking about tidal forces while watching Doctor Who. It will make your life much easier.

I've not heard enough Big Finish to judge absolutely (I've not heard Death in the Family, in particular), but I've listened to a pretty large number, and Shearman's "Holy Terror" still feels like the best one to me. I like Shearman's other Big Finish pieces a lot too, but that one's still the only one where I was at a…

Viewing things as "canon" always seems silly to me. If I'm watching Caves of Androzani, I'm going to treat it as pretty clearly happening immediately after Planet of Fire. If I'm listening to The Church and the Crown, I'm happy to accept that as just as "real" as any other story. Trying to figure out what "counts" is…

Genesis is really good, but I kind of refuse on principle to choose a Terry Nation story as the best Who story ever, because he's responsible for so many slogging bores. At the very least, all of his non-Genesis 70s scripts are varying degrees of terrible, with the exception of the bits of Destiny that were obviously…

Not Bonnie at the box, though; presumably the little girl Zygon leaders?

No, it did not feel like that particularly. It might be *applicable* to that, but that's not at all what an allegory is.

So you're saying that, for the purposes of TV, the slowing of time caused by higher gravity is much greater than it is in the real world, except that the TV show explicitly did not show any relativity effects caused by higher gravity? I'm not sure this makes any sense.

I don't think she was his teacher. He was just a neighbor kid.

I don't know the math, but would the relativity effects would be at all significant over such slight variations in surface gravity?

Fitz = Laszlo and Will = Rick? Or the other way around?

And, I mean, even Season 1 has "Aliens of London/World War Three."

Well, Ravi and Clive probably don't even know it's her birthday. Peyton obviously does remember. Liv's not talking to her family. So the only one who clearly neglected her is Major.

What is Clive oblivious of, though? I don't see why there'd be any reason for him to suspect Liv is a zombie. I just assume he's obviously noticed the "Liv takes on the personality of the person whose death she's investigating" thing, and assuming it's part of the psychic deal. He's pretty closed off, so it's not all…

Speaking parts for black male actors in New Who: Mickey Smith (numerous episodes); Rodrick (Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways); Major Blake (Christmas Invasion); Mr Wagner (School Reunion); The President (Rise of the Cybermen); Zachary (Impossible Planet/Satan Pit); Kel (Fear Her); Lance (Runaway Bride); Leo Jones (various…

Next week, she will be a big deal returning character! Ashildr, specifically. Introduced in the classic episode "The Girl Who Died".

Besides the Hinchcliffe era (which itself includes duds like Revenge of the Cybermen and The Android Invasion), what era of Who couldn't be described as at least "a little disappointing" by a reasonable person?