The "rational" explanations on 'Doctor Who' are so ridiculous, though, that they might as well be fantasy anyway. "Fish-like alien with a perception filter" doesn't make a whole lot more sense than "vampire". I actually like this about the show, but it does bother me when the Doctor rejects something as impossible,…

"I'll give you something to scowl about!", on the other hand, is seldom well-received.

No, no - this is how mating works. You can have sex with someone only if you kill one other person out of a group of three. And then marry the third.

"Twelve has a Scottish accent because he was thinking of Amy when he regenerated."

'Day of the Doctor' seemed to go out of its way to make the Tenth Doctor look foolish, whether he was confidently accusing the real Elizabeth of being a Zygon (twice), pompously threatening a bunny, or always being the last of the three to catch up with the plan. I like the Tenth Doctor, but it was funny to see his…

Elementary, my dear Watson.

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As far as not having seen an alien planet is concerned, this will change with the very next episode, but with something of a catch. I'll be interested to see what you make of it.

Tennant's get-up probably finds the best balance of any Doctor's between being distinctive and iconic, without being overbearingly quirky.

I don't think they're necessarily working for the Sycorax, or towards the same aims ; they just follow them around.

It's great that, with the Doctor out of action, the episode becomes sort of sombre and grim, with a straightforward, horrifying alien threat, and a tense military response : it feels, for a while, like a very different sort of show. Then the Doctor wakes up, and reminds us of what sort of show this really is by…

Which is worse, farting or bad poetry?

I don't think that the "pilot fish" who are looking for the Doctor early in the episode are the Sycorax themselves. The Sycorax don't seem to know anything about the Doctor, and only beam up the TARDIS because they recognise it as extraterrestrial (and because the plot requires it). The pilot fish still don't make…

Well, that's what I meant - that they should be cast for their ability to embody the role. Race shouldn't matter either way.

Well, perhaps I didn't express myself clearly above, but I agree that race is not relevant to the Doctor : he doesn't have to be white, nor is it a travesty if he is white. A female Doctor could well be interesting, but (pace Douay Rheims Challoner) I do think it would be a deliberate reshaping of the series, whereas…

I was trying to figure out whether it's the internet's latest portmanteau buzzword- a combination of "screwed up" and "written".

The Rocke-who?

Pretty much the only reason I've heard of this film is because of that celebrated score, and I was familiar with the music long before I learned where it came from.

Oak-ay, that's enough puns for now.

So, remind me - which one of you guys is Groot?