CLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYDE!!

I spent much of the season so far hoping Kitty was a secret Moriarty henchmen (not with canon, but my love of Natalie Dormer is STRONG), but god this was a fucking fantastic arc and first half of the show. Brilliant and wonderful and a joy to watch.

They did this already, it was called Fringe and and it was a huge success in all the ways that matter. Leave both of these stellar shows aloooooooone. Don't taint it!

I'm still tired of Moffat and ready for a showrunner change, but this season was absolutely a huge improvement over the last couple and for that I am glad and grateful.

I don't think what was done with her character was a disservice, though I agree it was heartbreaking. I feel like part of Donna's arc - including her erasure and reappearance in the End of Time - was about how she was really brilliant and wonderful all along, it just took some time traveling with the Doctor for her to…

I'd prefer her to just go at Christmas and leave on a relative high note (I'll leave "relative" in there because for all of Moffat's ups and downs, I think his Christmas specials have been uniformly *terrible*). Absolutely agree about her lack of gravitas.

At least Rose and Donna are real, rounded characters though.

I mean, Moffat has also given us: Saving the world with the power of love, saving the world with the power of love, saving the world with the power of love, and saving the world with the power of love. RTD may have done lots of invasions and Daleks, but at least the resolutions required more than the simple power of…

My kingdom for Steven Moffat to stop harping on the question of "Doctor Who?" I would trade almost anything for him to just STOP.

I disagree with your assessment of Clara as "willing to tell the Doctor off in a way no other companion has been." That title firmly belongs to Donna Noble, with the additional lift of being a character who doesn't spend her entire life lying to the Doctor as well. Clara has grown leaps and bounds from a walking…

Sounds like they weren't. Charlie Jane was particularly annoyed because the BBC had always been good about alerting them about missing scenes before, and this screener most definitely did NOT have a message about it anywhere.

Same as the majority of TV, then. She can be both, because she's written by so many different people.

As Alastair alluded to, the theme you highlight in your first paragraph was meditated on FAR better in "Father's Day," where the emotional loss was also more resonant (though I do like Danny Pink lots). The desperation to save someone you love beyond measure - in that case, Rose and her father - and the dire…

On io9, Charlie Jane was saying that the practice is very common but usually they tell you; for instance, they told reviewers the screener was missing scenes when they sent out the Name of the Doctor (it was missing all of John Hurt's stuff there). Not telling the reviewers the episode was incomplete led to A LOT of…

This was addressed, though. Before Moffat, before The Day of the Doctor, the Time War (as RTD wrote and envisioned it) existed in massive scope across the universe, and it was heavily implied they were fighting across the fourth dimension, not just the three we human can perceive. What the Doctor did at the end of…

It's being telegraphed as clearly as Missy = The Master was. You know, the thing 2/3 of this viewership called after the FIRST episode.

I think Russell T. Davies already did the power of human feels ending in The Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel.

Well yeah, none of us do, because Moffat literally never ever ever fleshed it out.

As I always understood it, the scope of the Time War was so huge and so dire that all Time Lords across the universe were called back to fight for Gallifrey. That would have included Susan, even though she stayed on Earth; presumably her family ties would have aged/died at that point and she would have had to go fight.

The Dalek/Cyberman showdown in "Doomsday" is so fucking funny, I miss moments like that in this show.