A few years ago I did a marathon of all (then) 22 Bonds and ranked basically every aspect of the films. "Surrender" is so good that it cracked my top 5 - if not top 3 - of theme songs despite not even being the actual theme. It's downright excellent.

Loved Brosnan, thought he had one great film, two ok ones and one painifully bad.

In general, that's the one thing Die Another Day has going for it. Rosamund Pike is certainly quite attractive in her own right but this is Halle Berry we're talking about here. Casino Royale might count too if Caterina Moreno isn't automatically bad just because she's dating the random minor villain in the…

Even Octopussy?

I'll call Die Another Day and raise you with Octopussy, where Bond dresses up as a clown and flies a plane out of a fake horse's ass.

I dunno, they were spoofing a series that had the gall to title one of its movies (and name a character) "Octopussy"…and there's Pussy Galore, of course. Alotta Fagina seemed like fair game.

His "problem" - which was entirely not his fault - is that The Living Daylights was clearly written for Moore so the tone is weird and the Licence to Kill, while much more interesting in modern times, was wayyyy too different from normal Bond for the audience at the time. Had he gotten different films or more of a…

Moore is far and away my least favorite Bond but I'd always maintained For Your Eyes Only is his forgotten gem. Upon re-watching all of them, I'd say The Spy Who Loved Me is his top film but For Your Eyes Only also pretty good. The rest are either just excruciatingly bad (Live and Let Die, A View to a Kill, and…

I'll have to give it a re-listen again because the only song from that album that's really stuck with me is "Walk", which was one of my favorite songs from 2011 and, I'd say, one of the 2 or 3 best songs they've ever released, so that alone elevates the album.

They remind me of AC/DC and, strangely, I've made a similar point about Pink…in all cases, they know what they do well (whether in a quality or moneymaking sense) and, now that they've found that groove, successfully stay in it for decades at a time. That's not necessarily a bad thing, just as long as it's…

I think you misread the part where I said "Not that Moffat hasn't been guilty of the reset button"…that seems like a pretty straightforward point. Fair warning, I'm a writer, brevity isn't a strong suit, so this will be long.

True, I just meant a bit more blatantly…had Simm laid a kiss on him while in captivity and made statements like he was a scorned ex/unrequited lover.

Then again, if you think people are underwhelmed now, can you imagine all of the "MOFFAT IS STEPPING OVER FIFTY YEARS OF HISTORY" anger if he up and made Susan evil after not even bringing her back for the 50th? *Shudders*

No, not really. The Doctor using a gun in a 100% shoot-to-kill style would represent a fundamental change in the morals/values of the character, but I fail to see why a sex change means anything any more dramatic than the usual personality and appearance changes you get after every regeneration.

I think the Doctor did realize it, to an extent, and just didn't want to believe it, or maybe he thought it was The Rani or Romana but you could see the cogs in his head start turning. Considering Twelve's prior resolve, he wouldn't panic and start raving in the streets over just anyone.

*Raises hand* Yep, I am. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if it's at least addressed/mentioned but considering how much of a trainwreck I felt both of the Master's prior appearances were (End of Time and Last of the Time Lords) and that turning the Master into a hero sorta defeats the entire purpose of the…

Huh, hadn't heard that before…I'd seen speculation that the role was originally supposed to be River's - much like the War Doctor was supposed to be Nine - but for whatever reason Kingston couldn't make it so he invented Tasha Lem, which also makes pretty decent sense.

One of my thoughts after seeing the episode again was that when I find someone willing to go with me to a costume party as The Mistress while I'm Twelve I'm marrying that woman haha I've loved Twelve's outfit since the reveal and Gomez looked rather sharp.

To be fair, you could certainly argue that Simm's Master had a bit of a crush on the Doctor too, he just treated the situation like many pre-adolescent boy would treat their crush…with abuse and yelling and antagonism.

I do love how, in the Moffat-can-do-no-right camp, people complained for years about his too-convoluted resolutions and then now twice in a row he's picked the most logical approach (how to get around a regen cap…the one way we'd already heard of; and Missy is short for Mistress) and people are "underwhelmed". Can't…