I think that was pretty much baked into the cake. And while it's frustrating that some fans haven't given Smith and/or Capaldi their due, it's ultimately their loss. That bloc still made DW popular enough that it has become a cornerstone of BBC programming in a way it hasn't been probably since Tom Baker, if even…

Gonna suck to lose Capaldi as the Doctor. Hopefully his successor is as magnetic, whoever he or she is (please, not another white guy).

Nah man, Assad is one of the good guys. Julian Assange told me so, so it must be true.

Pretty much a perfect summary. At least his Doctor accomplished what the BBC wanted — and, to be fair, perhaps the reason we're still watching and critiquing the show today — in that he brought on board a hardcore 13-35 female demographic, which has traditionally not been great to science fiction, and expanded the…

My college girlfriend turned me on to Doctor Who, and she was so excited when we got to "The Runaway Bride" because she loved Donna Noble so much, so her enthusiasm might have rubbed off on me.

"That's one heck of a nurse!"

Eh. Even on rewatch, it's remarkable how less fully he inhabited the character than Matt Smith or Peter Capaldi. He's a quality actor, but his Doctor never felt like as complex and lived-in a character as the Eleventh and Twelfth.

Yep, there's one. It doesn't show up in "Midnight" at all. Not sure if there are any others. "The Wedding of River Song", maybe?

Hmm. I like pretty much all of S5 except "The Beast Below" and "Victory of the Daleks", although I could take or leave "The Vampires of Venice" (call it a 4/10, maybe 5/10 if I'm in a good mood).

For me:

Which are fine and every series has them, but about one-third to one-half of Tennant's overall run as the Doctor was well worse than the acceptable average, with seasons 2 and 3 serving up a whole shit-ton of crap.

In a series that has had more than its fair share of embarrassing clunkers, "Love & Monsters" stands in a category of utter unpardonable reprehensibility all its own.

Struggling to think of another NuWho episode in which we did not see the TARDIS.

Unfortunately, it joins "Utopia" in the short list of great Doctor Who episodes setting up shitty three-part stories. What a waste. "Face the Raven" could have used some company on the other side of the ledger.

Catherine Tate is really the only redeeming quality of "The Runaway Bride". If I could just keep her banter with the Doctor and get rid of the entire plot of that episode and its ridiculous evil villain-of-the-week, that'd be great.

It felt like Toby Whithouse came up with a humdinger of a premise for an episode and either he, Moffat, or their Beeb bosses were too timid to pull the trigger on it. As soon as the Doctor's "regeneration" aborted, I was like, "Oh, so that's why the A.V. Club gave it a B-." And it didn't improve from there, give or…

I'm not sure if DW has produced a lesser three-episode run than "Daleks in Manhattan", "Evolution of the Daleks", and "The Lazarus Experiment", and I'm being kind to its bookends, "Gridlock" and "42", by not mentioning them in the same grouping.

Gotta keep "Blink", I'd be OK keeping "The Girl in the Fireplace", "School Reunion" is decent, and you could talk me into "Army of Ghosts"/"Doomsday" and "The Runaway Bride", but overall, yeah. The general quality range is from "meh" to "Jesus Christ, is there nothing else I could be doing with my life during this 46…

DW has always struggled to do "gritty" justice. The last time they tried this whole "Earth is taken over by an alien dictator and its history is rewritten" kind of dystopian story, it ended with everyone clapping their hands and believing in fairies so that Tinker Bell the Doctor could use his magical powers to save…

I wish I could literally unwatch somewhere between one-third and one-half of David Tennant's time as the Doctor, and both of those misadventures would go straight into the memory hole.