No, you're thinking of "My Best Friend's Girl," who used to be mine. I think the key difference between this and "Jessie's Girl" is that Rick Springfield has no real animus towards Jessie. In fact, Jessie has been a pretty good friend of his. He's just unhappy with the situation, and wanting to bone Jessie's…

I like creating a long period of time for Doctor/Nyssa adventures in between Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity. Although I kind of even more like Phil Sandifer's head-canon that the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa had a brief, intense, grief-inspired fling during that time which had ended amicably by the time of Arc of Infinity.

I've not actually heard that Holmes was that involved in writing Genesis. He wrote his own story that season (Ark in Space), and was *heavily* involved in rewriting Revenge of the Cybermen. I've never gotten the impression that he did that much with Genesis, and Shannon Sullivan's account of the production doesn't…

My memory of it is that Holmes wanted to keep him on, but Hinchcliffe (to save money, perhaps?) insisted on getting rid of him. I can't find any confirmation of this, though.

The design thing never bothered me particularly? Daleks are just inherently ridiculous looking things. The idea that these particular Daleks were unforgivably ridiculous looking in some way different from how the Daleks generally look never really made much sense to me. And I don't care about the RTD-era Dalek…

Some of the Big Finish audios have really remarkably awful American accents. Notably Minuet in Hell, which is just awful all around, but particularly so in the awful southern accents, and Invaders from Mars, which at least features Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson having a lot of fun.

Was he putting on an American accent at one point?

I kind of want "Doctor John Disco" to be his permanent go to alias from now on.

I am rather disappointed that the theory is not that Clara died in a car accident after arguing with the Doctor in Kill the Moon, and was replaced by Wilma Campbell, the winner of a Clara look-alike contest.

Wait, what is this "Clara's already dead" thing? If you play "Magician's Apprentice" backwards, is there a part where Capaldi seems to say "Turn me on dead girl"? Is she barefoot in the promotional photo for The Girl Who Died, while the Doctor is wearing all white?

Season 12 is actually the spottiest of the Hinchcliffe seasons, I think. Robot is totally fine, and Ark and Genesis are obviously all time classics, but Sontaran Experiment and Revenge of the Cybermen are both decidedly mediocre. Season 13 only has one poor serial ("Android Invasion") and Season 14 is solid from start…

I'd likely switch 8 and 4, just on the grounds of preferring Capaldi to Tennant, but roare's looks pretty close to what I'd say.

"Love and Monsters" really seems like marmite. I, um, didn't hate it? I thought it was interesting, and I'd rather watch it again than something like "The Idiot's Lantern" or "New Earth". The child-designed monster was stupid, though.

I'd put 6 ahead of 7 and 2, at least. "Impossible Astronaut" "Doctor's Wife," "Good Man" (imo - I know that one's controversial) "Girl Who Waited," and "God Complex" are all very good. The other non-Moffat episodes (Black Spot, Rebel Flesh, Night Terrors, Closing Time) are pretty standard issue Who mediocrity.…

Re: Season 5, do people like Vampires of Venice? Sometimes I'm not sure I get why certain stories are reviled, while others that seem to me, to be about the same (mediocre) quality, get a pass. Victory of the Daleks wasn't good, but I liked the "I am your soldier" bits at the beginning (obviously nicked from "Power of…

Before the Flood was very clearly the worst episode this season. But the other three two parters have all been pretty excellent.

Only the Davies Christmas specials really functioned in any way as season premieres. And they were largely mediocre. I guess "A Christmas Carol" might sort of count.

Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon is definitely better than Magician's Apprentice/Witch's Familiar, which was good, but kind of all over the place. Of the other ones, Smith and Jones was pretty good, from what I remember. It had the Judoon.

Obama hasn't given up on the two-state solution so far as I can tell - a google search gives a bunch of recent hits for Obama urging the two-state solution as the only way to get peace.

I don't think the show clearly tipped its hand one way or another about which Osgood died in Death in Heaven, but I could see someone arguing that the existence of two Osgoods at the end means that the original Zygon Osgood was the one killed in Death in Heaven. I can't see any reason why you would think it definitive…