…aaaand I put this in the wrong comments section. Apologies.

They want their cake and eat it too. They want to promote this Doctor as alien and not affected by human romance and the like. They want to make sure the audience knows he's The Doctor and above that type of sophomoric nonsense. BUT they also want to hold onto the tween demographic as much as possible. Not to mention,…

Sorry, quick though about LISTEN again: What if the child on Gallifrey wasn't The Doctor, but was The Master instead? That would actually be a nice Moff-twist no one saw coming. And it would actually help make the episode make sense on some level, as no one can seriously believe a man who stood against Satan himself…

How dare you question ANYTHING about these episodes? Don't you know you're only supposed to come here and praise the current run??

But, the Doctor isn't a soldier. Never has been. He even worked side-by-side with the military during most of Three's era, and many times since. So I don't follow…

Excellent point. Not bad, just mediocre. The ending with the two Tellers reuniting warmed my black and withered heart. Reminded me that someone out there still remembers what The Doctor is actually all about when he's not arbitrarily fretting about impressing some random human girl. Love The Doctor protecting the…

Nice! I like how you rationalize. For me, it just seems obvious Moff inverted Smith. Eleven was the old man in the young body pretending to be young and carefree. Twelve is the young man in the old body pretending to be serious and important. But, we're really saying the same thing.

Strange I thought I already responded to this, but knowing Disqus who can tell. Anyway, as I said, another trope of fandom is to arbitrarily dismiss someone elses opinion by hand-waving gestures like parsing their words to mean what you want in an attempt to have a point. Meanwhile As you should be able to read in…

No my response was pretty clear that it seemed obvious for the viewer that what we saw was a teleporter effect. I thought I responded to this earlier, but knowing Disqus who can tell? lol

Your opinion is noted and appreciated. My points still stand. Every week has become 45 minutes of empty spectacle. Hopefully they will start having actual plots again not designed to just fill Tumblr gifs and fandom catchphrases. Of course, "Don't Think" pretty much sums up the current era… ;) lol

Yes the writing is terrible. But for me Coleman is still the worst actress they've had in the role. She had two speeds: bemused/happy and bemused/unhappy. That's just my opinion though. Feel free to disagree.

Couldn't disagree more, but at the moment I am stuck away from my PC and a phone sucks for writing long posts. Let's just say that Clara lacks everything Liz Sladen brought to the role. Sladen had the ability to fill her character with exactly that. While Coleman is vacuous and brings down every scene she is in. There…

Yes. Next question? I have other comments here. You should seek each one out.

Sure wish that made sense so I knew what you were talking about….

I've been "invested in the show" for 35 years so of course I have something to say in these Comments. It's called having an informed opinion and enjoying discussing it with others. Why else would anyone be here? Nice attempt at boxing me into your idea of a trope, though. LOL!

I didn't "hate" the episode. I reserve that for the last two episodes. I just found it predictable in many places, and rushed to the point of being hollow. I thought the ending stuff was nice, though. It always touches me when the show actually remembers what's important to The Doctor beyond his supposed need to…

Well I think the briefcases were added by The Doctor, as I believe we saw flashes of those scenes when he was remembering. So maybe he put the rewards in place, as well. I dunno, the whole thing is so contrived it's hard to keep track.

The hallmark of a good review. Personal opinion stated up front so the objectivity isn't clouded in the proceedings.

After half a century of world-wide science fiction, who doesn't recognize the obvious "transport effect" when they don't actually do much to disguise it? It literally looks like a teleporter effect from every scifi I've seen in the past 10 years. While I was watching the episode, I thought that was supposed to be…

I didn't realize we were "arguing". When did it become that two opposing opinions presented fairly and reasonably is arguing? What happened to debating? I don't like aspects of this season and I list them plainly and my reason therein. At no time do I demand anyone take them as paramount over their own beliefs. I…