Mel -> Ace has to be the single greatest leap up in companion quality. I guess the question now is what is the biggest step down?

Appropriate timing, since this week I listened to "Shadow of the Scourge", a Big Finish serial that features the Seventh Doctor pulling the same scheme of pretending to work for the enemy. The difference here is that there was no ambiguity about it, obviously it's part of some big gambit by him, so it works really…

Same. Season 3 was introducing a lot of interesting stuff too.

"Epic" is certainly an adjective, and Trial of the Time Lord is certainly a noun that it could potentially modify.

I stopped watching after season 3, so maybe it's time (or rather, summer's the time) to watch the rest of it.

It takes a while, but when Cecil Baldwin starts improving it's a marked difference. I'd say episode 16, The Phone Call, is a big turning point for him.

Is it too much to hope for a full song version of "buckle it up, buckle it up, buckle it up or you DIIIIIIIIIEEEEE!"

It's so standard, expected, and (albeit rightfully) exulted there's no point in picking it as a favorite. Like Citizen Kane.

Which is exactly why this is so brilliant. If it was just dramatic footage of rallies or something, the juxtaposition would be random and stupid.

Here we have exclusive footage from the offices of Uproxx on their first attempt to make that gif

I see Buzzfeed is giving out their awards early this year.

Let's just post our favorite clapping gifs. http://replygif.net/i/95.gif

"I, for one, hope Smee MacDream and Don Riddler are able to patch things up eventually." - John Travolta

I love how Adventure Time refuses to talk down to kids. If the writers want to engage in complicated meta-phsyics, then that's what they're going to do.

Tangent: Anyone else notice that the two microbe guys tested on were the same ones tested on during The Lich? You can see all the extra arms PB sewed onto one of em.

It was the perfect punctuation to that heartfelt monologue. That's what I love about Adventure Time.

That makes more sense, thanks.

It's a Seven audio yeah, The Genocide Machine. Really not worth checking out.

Howl's Moving Castle has a fantastic first half that might edge on his best work before falling into a completely incomprehensible second half. I hold it up as proof that Miyazaki movies are better the less they focus on story. For more proof, see Totoro, Ponyo, and Porco Rosso. Princess Mononoke is the only real…

I lose it every time. That's even better than an earlier audio where the Doctor is awed by a computer that can hold WHOLE TERABYTES of information, enough for all the knowledge in the universe.