Likewise, I'm starting to like Hulke more and more.

To be honest, Androzani is a good script, but it's not a particularly good Who script. I'd put Warrior's Gate in the top spot, another story that had fantastic and imaginative direction, and also an airtight script, yet one that didn't feel like the Doctor had accidentally wandered onto the set of Game of Thrones.

Moffat doesn't 'have to' do anything. He's under no obligation to write the story to please people who hate him for basically not writing the show exactly as Russell T. Davies did.

I'd say the Visitation was good because Saward had a story editor who could tell him what parts of his script were crap, and Revelation was good because Saward ripped it off from some novel about a mortuary.

Actually, Harmon and Roiland have explicitly stated their two inspirations for the show were Back to the Future and Doctor Who.

That's not fanwank, just a basic observation on how people get better at tasks the longer they do them.

The idea of "agency" is completely at odds with predetermination in time travel, and Moffat already tipped his hand that he loves predetermination paradoxes all the way back in Blink.

There's a very simple reason:

Letts was also thoroughly leftist, but he was also a Buddhist, so he would probably have been the type to find the good in everyone.

"Children. It's like they've got minds of their own."

"never been particularly gory"

It was mighty disappointing that a certain dusty old book about the French Revolution lying in a corner somewhere doesn't in some way help stop the Blitzer.

Are you on gloves— DRUGS?

Or it could just be that the Doctor showed them they don't need to blow stuff up all the time, and his fondness is his way of showing approval.

He also introduced the idea of "special" people who have powers and an affinity for the Island. Given that the concept is brought up again and again throughout all six seasons, it's not really a wash at all.

I always figured it was more that the characters are all disembodied electromagnetic soul energy, swirling around the Source together, and their consciousnesses came together to free each other so they could move. The same thing happens to everybody who's ready to move on when they die, except the circumstances are…

Of course, most of those mysteries were actually ONE mystery:

Against type?

The more likely explanation is that it just happens whenever anybody dies and returns to the Source. You know, Buddhist reincarnation, and all that.

When did they say that "Hurley did it" was the canon explanation?