Justice League (the franchise’s low point)

I think there were plenty of Clara moments that would have worked better with another actor. Imagine Pearl Mackie doing the “let me be brave” bit in Face The Raven, for example.

At its best, this season’s slower stride has led to thoughtful character work, complex thematic material, and some appreciable weirdness.

As a society, we need to cool it with the purity tests. It's good and proper to challenge shitty speech but branding people as forever problematic is ultimately self-defeating. 

Although I really, really liked this episode, it seems to have some of the same wonky writing problems as the rest of the season. Each act of this episode was basically a self-contained story in itself:

The Witch is overrated though

He’s writing episode 10 as well so that’s 55% altogether. Moffatt wrote 6/13ths of s5. 

It’s true and there’s no way of knowing who wrote what, but the writing has felt very different in recent weeks.

The other writers even seem to have a better understanding of Chibnall’s vision than Chibnall. This was the definitive performance for 13, giving her plenty of Doctor-ey moments while blending in some new character elements, and it was the best episode for the three companions. Ryan made a friend, Yaz behaved like a…

Helm's Deep Throat 

It’s a shame that there’s no way of saying that Ghostbusters is a lazy, sloppy, jumped-up SNL sketch without instantly finding yourself in the trenches of the culture wars alongside Milo Yiannopoulis.

Bells Jingle In Little Christmas 

Twirly had a throwaway line about how someone with the Doctor's symptoms should be on blood pressure medication. Maybe it meant nothing, but haven't we had a few references to the Doctor being unwell? 

There’s so much going wrong on this season that really shouldn’t be. Chibnall’s writing has been poor. Episodes have lacked focus and you’ve had sequences like the opening 15 minutes here, which are cluttered and a bit boring. Team TARDIS isn’t working at all. Tosun Cole is probably the worst actor to inhabit the…

Doctor Who has always been a collection of duds and A+ episodes. That's the charm of the show.

Iron Man is not a great film. It contains all of the MCUs worst instincts: quips instead of real humour, shallow character development, pointless action scenes that then need to be complemented by interminable exposition, and a third act that’s just a dull video game cut-scene. IMHO they didn't get the character work…

I watched this with two kids who were engaged and outraged by the portrayal of racism. That’s important work for what is still a family show.

The original Camping was absolutely magnificent 

Fox News talking head [rising slowly from the grave]: "actually, Lincoln WAS a Republican! How can Republicans be racist?"

This was a real clunker imho. Compared to Rose and The Eleventh Hour, it seemed painfully slow and ponderous, more like a Scandinavian murder drama than Doctor Who at times. A funeral scene, ffs, it’s not exactly “I’m The Doctor, run for your life!” or “all I’ve got is a post office, which is shut”.