flaws of the episode aside, the speech Thirteen gave to the Solitract so it would keep her instead of Erik was her defining-Doctor moment, her “there’s one thing you never ever put in a trap” or “the man who fights the monsters” speech. I’d been waiting all season and wondering if her talk with King James last week…

what’s weird is that there was pre-season hype about a monster in the Anti-Zone who wasn’t Ribbons, who almost looked like a Pan’s Labyrinth-style creepy pale monster. they went to the trouble of casting, costuming and filming this thing and then completely cut it from the final episode - you gotta wonder why. here’s…

The Smile Sessions versions of Cabinessence, Wind Chimes and Wonderful are top tier Beach Boys, I never go near the re-recordings now that the originals are out

god those last three songs on Some Rap Songs put the rest of the musical year to shame

The Big Finish audios started out unofficial as well, before they got licensing and basically became an entirely alternate version of the show on TV. anyone who’s heard The Chimes of Midnight will tell you that some of the best ever Doctor Who is in the early audios

bread makes you FAT?

honestly your point about Moffat and RTD hit on something I was thinking about the last few weeks, which is that we’ve essentially done a complete 180 in terms of where the showrunner’s talents are. RTD and especially Moff were both fantastic writers who weren’t necessarily the best at running the show, which is…

yep, I agree. let him make the decisions on casting, visual effects, which countries to film in etc, those have all been totally spot on this season, but for god’s sake lock him out of the room with the typewriter in it

in fairness, he wasn’t supposed to write The Tsuranga whatever until fairly late, when the original writer (who’s still credited with creating the Pting) had time commitments and had to drop out. which kind of explains why that episode was really bad and makes Chib’s ratio of guest writers look pretty decent - 60% of…

when you say Sopranos you mean “best”, right

I mean, if this movie shows how Dickie dies, one way or the other it’s kinda gotta resolve that ambiguity. if that corrupt cop is even in this movie it would essentially confirm that he had at least something to do with it, otherwise why put him in the movie at all? the only way I can see of the ambiguity staying is…

One of my favourite details in the show is that you’re never sure whether Tony was manipulating Chris into killing that cop for his own reasons, or if he really did kill Dickie Moltisanti and T was letting Chris get some revenge. it’s sad that this movie will probably ruin that ambiguity

that’s my favourite Madchen moment on the show, so good

she did also write I Only Have Eyes For You, which is one of the all-time best episodes

yeah, there’s that (the thing that’s still so amazing about S5 is the diversity of tones pretty much every week while at the same time everything is tied together beautifully by the theme of fairytales and stories). but you’ve also got Tony Curran as Vincent who really is just one of the best performances in the…

I can see the base idea being similar, but I think the specifics of how they were handled was very different - the Thangorians (or whatever) reformed because they lost their home planet, which gave them a logical reason to be aggressive towards The Doctor (her unknowingly having taken the remains of their dead) as…

I felt the same way about Vincent and the Doctor when it first aired (which seems to be the episode Chibnall is basing essentially his entire blueprint on - I wonder if he tried to get Richard Curtis back for this season?) but over time started to appreciate the monster’s symbolic meaning in the episode, even if it…

yeah, can we just have an entire season of almost-historicals written by anyone other than Chibnall next season? this was beautifully done and wholly more complex than I was expecting, the feeling of dread in the last 15 minutes once you find out Prem is going to die was choking

gonna throw in some Red House Painters because I don’t see them anywhere, and their early days were just the ultimate desolate music. “oldness comes with a smile / to every love-given child”

Lemonworld might be their best song, god