I'm going to miss the Revenge reviews and comment sections a lot, they were the best. Can't comment on this because I haven't found the time to watch the episode yet, but thank you, Carrie, for your insightful reviews and thank you, AVClub for giving us this amazing outlet for ranting/squee/squeeranting (which is the…

But excusing yourself by saying "that's just how closed loop time travel stories work" is just so lazy and unsatisfying storytelling. You CAN do that kind of a story without the characters being irrelevant. They support the loop by making the choices they do. Clara… didn't. Clara just went "okay, it's not like I have…

I sort of disagree with the first half of that. I thought the first five episodes of s7 form a nice arc that supports their decision in "The Angels Take Manhattan" really well. (I agree that they could have possibly dropped out of the show after "The God Complex", but honestly? It would leave a bitter taste if they…

Plus: they didn't even bother with coming up with a reason for her to jump into the timestream that would be personal. Unique to her. Not a generic "I have to save him" which any of the companions would do (and which actually made a bit *less* sense for her than it would to others, given the thread of healthy distrust…

I'm honestly just so glad they let that one go. Clara has become the best written companion since Donna this season, and a big part of it is the focus on her as a person instead of a walking mystery for the Doctor to solve/Manic Pixie Dream Companion.

I wouldn't say obviously and no need to get defensive, not making any wild accusations here. And yes, it might say more about me than about the remark itself.

I'm not accusing Moffat of being racist (and I definitely didn't read anything in "Journey" that way). It's just that the remark struck me as rather odd and possible to read that way.

speaking of Courtney, the immediate shoplifting accusation… might have been something this Doctor would say to any kid, but still, it was a tiny bit uncomfortable

I didn't watch the old series either, and I don't see the sudden soldier-hatred as jarring. It seems like a natural extension of Ten's approach to guns, for example.

The way I've been putting everything off the past whole life, I'd probably be sixty in a year (20 now)

+ I love the sparkly jumper + trenchcoat combo the Doctor was wearing and want to get one and wear it forever

Maybe it's because they don't want to step on the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies territory? I would also like that, though.

Also loved this. Funny as hell, asks all the questions it should about Clara's relationship with the Doctor, hits all the dramatic beats perfectly and hints at the future without being annoying about it and even brings back a rather great child character. This is shaping up to be my favorite of the Moffat seasons so…

I liked After Dark a lot, actually. I always think of it as shorter than it actually is because it went by so fast.

My only problem with Woman in the Dunes itself is that it reads more like really, really good Kafka fanfiction and not like a thing of its own. I liked The Face of Another precisely because the sheer bizarrenes of it couldn't really be compared to anything else.

I thought this was the worst episode in two seasons. Not interested in watching stuff happen when it has no connection to any character written well enough to get interested in (Doctor's and Clara's stakes in this were null) and no real flair (cheap imitation of Ocean's Eleven doesn't count, sorry) to at least partly…

coming from the future to say lol

Randomly gendered nouns are *way* more fun if your native language already has those, but different than the ones in the language you are trying to learn.

I loved this. Not the best episode of the show by any means, but a great true introduction to Capaldi's Doctor and a brilliant gnostic mythology mess of a story. Plus Clara is getting better by the minute.

That wasn't awful.