While he was jumping out the window and slowing down? To go along with the Fall?

I honestly think that during S8 we NEEDED that lack of whimsy, to sort of shock us back into all the different types of character the Doctor could be. I can't blame him for that.

I assumed it was a Time Lord thing. No one knows how to kill a Time Lord better than an entire committee of Time Lords.

"These shoes! They fit perfectly. And look at how big they are! Am I right, ladies?"

Fandom (or I at least) try to write it off as post-regeneration madness on 8's part. Or a badly considered distraction tactic. We don't really talk about it.

I'm so glad you remembered, I meant to go back and check. Really awesome medieval manuscript style too.

I thought he put it back in his pocket?

Not every room resets. The clothes, grave, dust writing are still there for each successive regeneration. I think physical changes the Doctor makes are kept (because it's a challenge for him to work through) but artificial/prop changes (the flower, the window) are reset to keep things tidy.

I concede that there's a lot of deterioration going on, but 91 skulls a year is tough to work through, even with time, water, and hundreds of other skulls.

12 is definitely my New Who favorite so far, but that's basically because his era has been so consistently good. 11 would maybe be in the running to knock out 2, 5, or 8, but the writing fell off so sharply after S6A that I feel like all his potential was wasted. As it is 12 might beat out my 80s faves (all of them,…

Ah yes, Colditz. AKA Doctor Nazi

I think a lot of people who are talking about RTD being human-oriented is in terms of the breadth of the people in his universe. Nine and Ten had a much broader scope in terms of numbers of characters/aliens in episodes and different types of representation. Moffat scales his stories down a bit and focuses on…

I pretty much figured out the loop from the first scene but didn't understand the dial bit until the very end. "Confession dial. Ohhhhh."

We never saw Jamie's death on screen but…dude probably died.

I'm pretty sure that's where 80% of fandom went. I'm SO glad this is the obvious alternative.

I bring you science questions from tumblr:

I loved the tank scene! I thought it was super awesome. It's just most times scenes since then. Maybe I'm just biased because I hate it when the Doctor talks to the audience.

I just started listening to that one! I've heard good things.

Victory to me was a completely lack of follow-through on the premise. What happened, exactly? The Daleks got redesigned, the Doctor speechified for a bit, we got to see Winston Churchill for some reason. Why set it in the 40s other than to take a hammer to the nose? It just seemed like really poor execution to me and…

For me Series 8 seemed to be stronger, but maybe that's just because the last run of episodes were so good. I haven't been as excited as others about some the current run, but I still think it's much better than most of Smith and late Tennant.