Joke was the wrong word. Maybe "point" or "demonstration".

Problem is, is that there's different creative personnel for different episodes. It's not fair for, say, Neil Gaiman's script to be neglected just because Steven Moffat's script is nominated. If those two scripts are actually two of the best TV scripts produced that year, they deserve nomination. The real problem is,…

Ugh, yeah. It's an unfortunate (and esoteric) side effect to the otherwise cool (to me, maybe not you) reality that nearly everyone in sci-fi circles watches Who.

At least Orphan Black was nominated too.

I forgot about her telling Amy to leave, that does help it out a bit. Still, good point about his character development, I'm willing to bet the good intentions are there. Liking Moffat really involves how much benefit of the doubt you're willing to give him, and honestly I'm sad that my reserves have almost run out. I…

I feel bad about continuing this debate over last week too, but that good thing about Moffat is counter balanced by the fact that it's such a more prominent aspect in his era. Mainly because of River, a character who is fucked six ways to Sunday and never is really emotionally affected by it except feeling sad that…

That in a nutshell is the worst part about the new series, whenever something bad happens, the focus is on how much that makes the Doctor sad rather than focusing on the people who are much more immediately hurt. Implicitly, this means the Doctor's happiness is more important than anyone's well being.

Here's some added incentive if you didn't already know this. The Holy Terror is by the same writer as Chimes of Midnight, and does to medieval political drama what Chimes does to murder mysteries.

Yeah, Chimes of Midnight pretty much singlehandedly made the character in my eyes. The character's biggest weakness was simply a lack of identifiable qualities other than pluckiness, but this story gave me much more to hold on to. Fisher's performances were always great, but now when she's given actually interesting…

To add to the clarification, since you seem to realize your error in the other comments, the A/F is a reference to this site's reviews of American Horror Story: Asylum. The series was so structurally bizarre and incoherently brilliant, that the reviewer didn't know how to grade it, so he started assigning random…

It's not all bombastic shrillness. Case in point Clara's theme, which I find beautiful and gentle.

I completely agree. Doctor Who is always over represented in those awards, sadly.

Part of the beauty of Doctor Who's world building is that there is no world. It's a Lego set without instructions where anyone can add any sort of bizarre extension on and then pass it to the next person. It's a fundamental thing you have to accept about Who and if you can't…I'm sorry. If you don't like it after three…

Her introduction is good enough that even if it wasn't important I'd still recommend it. It's a great listen.

I read an interview with Moffat where he said that he asks RTD every year for a script. Maybe this year will be the year he gets one. I agree that there's a good chance it will be great.

There was an obscure webstory about that and the dynamic was pretty great. Shame everything else about that story was pretty bleh.

My theory is Davies thinks Doctor Who should embody optimism and wonder and magic and all that warm, fuzzy stuff, but as a writer he just can't get a handle on it. Davies is a very depressing, cynical writer, but in a good way, but put that instinct in a situation where magic is required for the solution (i.e. a…

I mean, yeah, I can see Runaway Bride Donna as annoying to some people. But even in Partners in Crime she is already more well rounded and so much funnier. And in Fires of Pompeii she proves herself as an amazing companion. So I just don't get it.

For 7th, you should get on some of that. Watch Rememberance of the Daleks, if you feel like putting up with some real convoluted Dalek mythology. It's not super intrusive, but it can be off-putting. Otherwise, it's a top notch story and my personal favorite. A great alternative is Curse of Fenric, which is a good…

It's a finale literally straight out of Peter Pan. What was Davies even thinking? At least his other finales balance out the ridiculous magic bullshit with some sort of personal sacrifice on the good guy end.