Yeah, but with a bunch of dead people in your house that you ran from with obvious plans to leave the country, you'd be arrested too. Nothing about where he was in the process was anything other than normal procedure — something Hannibal is clearly banking on. He designed this frame up with this process and this end…

"Obviously you'd take Chilton in and slap him at the top of the suspects list…"

I have been imagining - with true glee - the aftermath of the discovery that Hannibal is the Ripper since the show began (my initial fantasy episode involved the entire team sitting around a table and gagging every time they opened their mouths), but I daresay that out of all of them it looks like Alana is the one…

I think as in "homoerotic," dude.

Abel's survival harkens back to other season one discussions of how bad a shot Will is — how many shots it takes him to take out Garrett Jacob Hobbs, how the first scene of him bonding with Bev (OH BEVERLY) was at the shooting range where he was trying to improve… A baseline of not-fantastic marksmanship combined with…

omg Beverly Bulgogi. Everyone on this show is a treasure. I'm gonna miss her so much.

BEVERLY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

One of RTD's greatest strength - and, ironically, one of Moffat's greatest weaknesses - was his ability to use small and character (and sometime small character) moments to convey huge amounts of backstory through only a handful of dialogue. That one confrontation by the pool explains 8 pre-Time War Doctors' worth of…

I see your point and I don't disagree but it's definitely in my top Doctor Who episodes of all time. Rose Tyler, I fucking love you and I wish there had been an entire season of Rose, Donna and the Doctor adventuring around the universe.

But it's SO INCREDIBLY GOOD.

Whoops, this ended up in the wrong place? Dunno how. Sorry!

How does it makes sense as a fairytale? Fairytales are stories to convey morality - what morality does it teach? Don't murder french aristocrats for your spaceship?

I think some more love for Tony Head and David Tennant's chemistry in "School Reunion" (which remains one of my fav episodes) is deserved here. The scene by the school pool, their literal face off, just crackles. "I'm so old, I used to have so much mercy." It's absolutely glorious.

I'm in the "never say never" camp (give anyone a good enough reason to do something and they will, and i think this show is capable of Very Good Reasons), but I'd settle for "regular recurring character."

I am really, really going to miss Donald and Troy. Everyone on this show has killer comic timing but for my money Donald is the best at it. I'm going to miss everything about Troy. I hope he comes back from his sailing trip next season.

VanDerWerff, I think this episode and this moment deserve a list of best Troy episodes.

I don't want this season to be over next week, especially since we're unlikely to get more gratuitous shots of Ichabod in skinny jeans.

River ends up in jail but the Doctor breaks her out every night. River has to die in the Library, but the Doctor saves her so she can live in its databanks eternally. How are these consequences? Remember when this show used to drive home "Everything has it's time, everything dies"? No one dies for the 11th Doctor.…

All of this is blatantly untrue. One, I never said The Moment was the Time Lock — Gallifrey was said to have burned, but the Time Lock was what ended the war across the universe. That hasn't been dealt with by this dodge/cheat at all.

I recently rewatched these episodes as part of a NINE OH NINE I MISS YOU NINE moment and enjoyed them much more on second pass. They're EXTREMELY silly and come with some clunkers but I agree that there's some rather clever commentary and observation folded into the episode. Plus, I have to say I really revel in…