Oh, they do. Just look at the AVC reviews. The original run is largely great, the Comedy Central stuff is mostly mediocre. That’s the consensus, I think.

The Instagram cake nonsense is somewhat irritating.

That’s still a long way from “being on a tight leash” that some fans claim he needs to be on.

Kill the Moon.

Oh yeah, it’s not how normal people would behave. Definitely one of his biggest missteps. That being said, I can see what he was thinking.

And when they ran out of ideas for showstoppers, they decided to turn the show into an engineering show as well.

S5 is outstanding too. I think 5, 8, and 9 are as good as the show’s ever been, while 6 and 10 are quite good seasons of television.

That’s what I like about it. I like that it has the balls to make its characters extremely flawed (but fascinating, for me at least) at times. It’s the best character drama the show has ever done. Every episode from The Caretaker to Last Christmas addresses the dynamic in some way. Compared to most Doctor Who seasons,…

He wasn’t oblivious, he just (incorrectly, it seems) thought that people would be able to tell the (very clear difference) between the two situations. Because, if you really ponder it for a while, and overlook a couple misjudged lines, they’re really not very similar at all.

It’s clearly an allegory for miscarriage. And he felt to address it in a children’s/family show would be disrespectful to something that many real life couples go through. I agree, perhaps he shouldn’t have gone there at all, but he realized it too late.

A little from column A, a little from column B. It’s not good that the production of Doctor Who is so grueling that quite literally no one wants the job.

I look forward to seeing the Not My Doctors freak out over RTD’s version. He’ll almost certainly cast a woman, right?

It was a callback to Smith and Jones.

Yeah, the nice thing about Doctor Who is that there’s always something for everybody. Some people really like the Pertwee era, for example. I find it frustratingly formulaic.

It’s just odd to see the same criticisms of the back half of Matt Smith’s tenure as if the first half and the Capaldi era don’t exist.

I really like the Davies era, for the record. It’s what got me into the show. I personally prefer the Moffat and Cartmel eras but I still really like it. But I don’t think RTD even attempted serialized storytelling much when it comes to plotting, really. Just an endless string of alien invasions and overblown,…

I don’t know, I still think S8 feels incredibly fresh. Its approach still hasn’t been done again.

I don’t think it was for no reason. It was a brand new regeneration cycle, plus he had just come off 900 years of war on Trenzalore. Even so, he’s still his old self at his core (he saves a lot more people than the 13th Doctor does, despite his utilitarian brusqueness). Clara is, of course, jarred by the change, and…

It seems like there was a real lack of planning there. Such a shame. With just a little more care and precision and without those structural issues, S6 could’ve been just as good as S5, if not better. I still have it as #6 in my New Who rankings, though, as I think the high points push it above most of the others.

Yeah, S6 was probably one of the most ambitious seasons of sci-fi tv ever. Yes, not all of it came off, but a lot of it did!