Yeah, I can't say I'm a huge fan of seeing the sonic used that way. There's definitely hay to be made from exploring the Doctor's hypocrisies, I just don't think the "solider/officer" duality set up in series eight was a particularly clever or pertinent way to do it.

I envy your optimism!

I wish we had that luxury, frankly.

God those long ties annoy me so much.

But we're talking about people who deliberately ignore and even openly disdain data and facts.

Mamamia is a fucking terrible website populated by idiots and run by the absolute epitome of what people mean when they disparagingly refer to "white feminism" and it does not surprise me in the least to discover that this inconsequential claptrap originated there.

But they don't feel like they're wrong. Empiricism doesn't enter into it.

I think Trump became an inevitability when you, as a nation, reacted with horror and indignation to Jimmy Carter's crisis of confidence speech.

A lot of people here like WWE. That's not what they're making fun of.

That's actually a really great way of looking at it.

No, my understanding is that he forced Eccleston to leave personally, and no-one else had any say. He stormed the set in a black cloak and Wario moustache, tied Eccleston to a horse, and rode him all the way out of Wales. Under Welsh common law he was then entitled to play the Doctor for four (4) years. These are just…

Shame Dear White People, a not crushingly mediocre show, didn't get one of these or indeed any kind of announcement at all.

I've had some choice words to say about Moffat over the years, but on balance I feel extremely good about his tenure as it comes to a close.

This guy gets me. Sorry about all the times I've deliberately antagonised you with hashtags.

Yeah, but other than Three doing it out of necessity, he never really liked having to, and he's been at loggerheads with UNIT more often than not even when working with them. I do agree it's one of the show's long term inconsistencies though; I guess maybe it's what Moffat was trying to reconcile with Danny's…

Like Moffat had this idea for a story about soldiers and commanding officers and chose entirely the wrong vehicle to try and tell it, I guess. Because, again, that's not the Doctor. Even the War Doctor wasn't an officer, or wasn't depicted as one; he wasn't operating under the Time Lord High Command, and he didn't…

It's Saturday and I wish I was drunk, but I don't drink very much anymore.

I'm sure that was the intention, but it didn't land that way for me.

It's funny with Danny Pink - I simultaneously think he was shortchanged both by the Doctor and the writers, and that he was an insufferable wanker the Doctor should have rejected even more forcefully. I guess all his stuff about the Doctor being a commanding officer at heart was supposed to hit home for the audience,…

Simply a matter of personal preference, when all's said and done. I freely admit that.