I think leaving the UK would be damaging to Scotland, but holy hell do I half hope they do because that was unbelievable, and I'd like someone to spite the hell out of those damn british nationalists.

I guess I disagree there, because my problem was not that she got a tragic ending, but how that tragic ending was framed. It was all about the Doctor, and how sad he was to have to do this thing, and that she would go on without him, and not at all about the horror of having her memories stripped away from her against…

It was one reason I really liked the end of last season. It was kind of a relief to see the show directly take on what a terrible thing he'd done.

My theory is that most of them started watching the show marathon style, and Moffat was their first experience of watching episodes as they came out. Marathoning has a tendency to smooth things over a lot, and watching things live gives you a lot of time to be more annoyed at flaws, and to also feel jerked around when…

wow, novel choice. I did not like the idiot's lantern, but for me it will always fail to compete in the ranks of Fear Her and Love & Monsters.

Seriously. The hate squad stuff that bewilders me the most is the stuff that just requires like, a serious and willful misreading to make arguments that are themselves contradictory.

Seriously, honestly, that really wasn't directed at you.

Yeah. I think he's stretching.

I think Rory is right on that line. I'm not so set on your credits definition, but Rory was never really the center to any of the episodes (to my endless regret). The stories were always either centerd on Amy's perspective or the Doctor's.

The whole like Moffat hate squad thing always bewilders me. I get not liking something, but it just seems so far out of proportion.

When the Doctor was all, "would you rather sleep rough" or something, I was thinking the answer should have been "yes, are you kidding me"

A friend of mine from back in Scotland was FUMING about that line, said it was Moffat injecting his politics into things and attacking the people who voted for independence. It seemed a little more fond teasing to me (especially considering the way it popped up before, in the Beast Below).

This episode was so weak in so many ways and yet I hardly noticed because of the sheer delight of Capaldi and Mackie.

All this talk about casting rumors…I was definitely sad when I heard Capaldi was leaving, but pretty much whenever any actor is suggested, regardless of how I'd feel about the idea in a more abstract way, a part of me just recoils because NOOO, I am not ready for Capaldi's Doctor to go away. The thought of him being…

I loved the there of them together, so I definitely wouldn't have wanted to get rid of Amy, but damn, did I adore Rory and if I could have gotten a few more Rory-centric scenes (or an episode) I would have been a very happy camper. He was such a great character! And they gave him such a novel dynamic with the Doctor.

But now I thought the twist was that the allies originally altered reality to make him Captain America, because he was "originally" hydra. Or is that a double fakeout, where that's what he's been made to think happens, to explain all of his history? Or?

I thought the objection of the article was that they've retconned it so that Captain America was actually really a nazi all this time who'd been magically brainwashed into being good.

But I thought the objection here is that he's been revealed to be brainwashed into being GOOD, that he was really secretly Hydra all along etc etc.

Such erudition.

Yeah, I saw a few scans of that. But I think it's part of the reason I didn't have the heart to read it- it just didn't fit for where I thought the character was when FF ended.