15% seems awfully high. It is a fucking woeful name though, I've regretted it ever since I registered. Seems like we agree that the Doctor's gender should be interchangeable though; sorry if I gave the opposite impression and that's what motivated your searing literary takedown of my silly username.

More like Ian Wrong.

If people weren't really, really overly concerned with hating music teenage girls listen to none of them would have thought there was anything amiss with that scene.

That's exactly what I said, you tedious, argumentative little bore. Now fuck off.

I think it'll be nice if trans people welcome the Doctor as a trans icon, but I don't think you can necessarily map the human experience of being transgender onto a 2000 year old alien who changes their entire body at the cellular level when sufficiently damaged or exhausted.

I will never, ever understand this idea that you can't criticise a thing close to home because there's something worse further away.

How delightfully unlikely!

Aw, so Rambo wasn't anglicised from Rimbaud like I always hoped?

*solidarity fist emoji*

Uuuuuugh, they're the worst. SP fans, that is. The kind of people who can't go two sentences without using the word 'rational' to describe themselves.

Yeah, for sure the show was available in North America before the Matt Smith era and BBCA. I was originally referring to what seemed at the time like an increase in popularity and mainstream awareness during his tenure.

From memory, the big push into the US kind of began with the series six episodes that were shot in Utah - that may also have coincided with the show moving to BBC America. My impression is that was when the audience grew beyond the kind of numbers you'd get on PBS. Certainly there was a viewership before that, going…

Maybe I'm wrong, and I certainly don't want Zombie Carl to demand to see my data, but it seems to me the surge in popularity in the US coincided with Matt Smith's era. I wasn't necessarily attributing it to him personally.

Oh boy. I continue to be comfortable in my decision to skip that one.

Someone I work with was complaining about Dunkirk being so short, but I'm just like, "Thank Christ, my ass hurts if I have to sit that long without stretching my legs."

Yeah, that was a bit of a non sequitur. It was more to demonstrate that the show was still huge before Tennant fever became a thing.

The Empty Child/Doctor Dances remains my favourite Who story of all time, and I think The Unquiet Dead is about the best thing Mark Gatiss has written for television since the League of Gentlemen.

Me too! I never bet, but my instincts on pop culture and politics aren't terrible, so I'm thinking of taking the occasional flutter on things like which GoT characters are going to die this season, who's going to win elections, that kind of ting.

I thought so too, but it's a different coat - 12's was a single breasted job with narrow notched lapels (a Crombie, in fact), the one she's wearing is a double breasted military greatcoat sort of thing, more like Jack Harkness's coat or a longer wool version of Nine's leather jacket.

Ha! Good call.