Really? You've never tried it with bubble wrap?

Ehhhh….not really.

The OP said "season", which is what I was responding to.

I said he can come up with sci-fi beyond that, I never said he doesn't do topical allegories too.

I think the truly revolutionary thing was how unified this series feels. I don't think there's ever been one that's tried to unify so much, including its villains, under the aegis of an overarching theme like "What is a soldier?"

I don't either, but I do check DWNews just to see if there's any good news in the pipeline.

The whole series revolves around the Cole Hill School, so it's not like she's out of the picture permanently.

I would goddamn love to see the War Machines come back. Just imagine Capaldi's Doctor facing off against them. He would probably rant them to death Malcolm Tucker-style with how rubbish they are.

This season was nothing like a Russell T. Davies season, because Moffat can actually do science fiction beyond a painfully obvious metaphor for some present day situation.

The "bland" conflict only seems that way because it's a riff on the season-long theme of what a soldier is and the Doctor's relationship to them. It doesn't need to be shaded very much because it's a piece of the context that surrounds it.

Yeah, they hyped her up as a guest star for a while now.

My outrageous theorizing is that, now that the Time Lords are back, "Heaven" going to be revealed as the Matrix. And probably the Great Intelligence and the Library will be involved too, since we still haven't a clue what was up with ghost.River and the GI in "Name".

Start the clock.

I hate the shit out of Time-Flight, but I have to admit I love the way it set up The Mark of the Rani. That was a thoroughly entertaining story - Baker's best, probably, though in a season with "Time Lash" that's not saying much - just because of the tongue-in-cheek relationship between the three Time Lords.

I've also seen some circles say this season is terrible because the new Doctor is so vile and nasty that there's no reason to like him or the show at all, so it's a toss-up.

Every fandom for everything, ever, starts out agreeing that a show/game/movie is good. But with every entry that passes, that fanbase splits into people who either like how it's changing (or not changing) or don't like how it's changing (or not changing).

This was beautifully explained in "Day of the Doctor": it's survivor's guilt. Since the Doctor now knows he didn't blow up his home planet and entire race, he doesn't need to overcompensate for it anymore.

People enjoy it, yeah, but as you said there's a lot of context missing about just why Hamlet talks too much, and how it was revolutionary at that time and place.

Eh, I don't see it.

Wow, that fact that that was Queen completely escaped me.