Agreed that that was one of the best episodes, but I can think of several others that would count as mature: a good portion of the Eccleston era, the two-parter with Satan, the two-parter where Ten becomes human, "Midnight," "The Fires of Pompeii," the one right after that with the Ood, "Turn Left," "The God Complex…"

I think its because those seasons generally had better character work than Moffat's seasons. Davies was corny as hell and the series had a lot of bad episodes, but the storylines as a whole held together better because I cared more about the characters.

But in the case of the Moment and the Delta Wave, the Doctor actually came up with an alternate solution to the problem. He didn't just sit there and wait for another magical option to present itself. He didn't say "Well, I'm sure if I don't use the Moment, the Time War will just end itself!" Which is essentially what…

^^^^^THIS.

I'm not giving anyone a pass. The others you mentioned are also terrible people. They're also people Olivia has given pretty much unlimited free passes. When you continue to employ people who have murdered your own clients—and when you continue to date someone who has murdered one of your friends, the father of your…

Well, more accurately, the moral is: "If your pregnancy is killing you, do nothing, and everything will turn out fine!"

Well, I'll never agree with the episode's moral that an alien fetus' life is so important that you should endanger the lives of billions of born people in order to ensure that it gets born. That's what "never slaughter innocent creatures" means in the context of this episode. And how anyone can deny the connection…

I didn't find him dark, I found him needlessly grumpy, bitter, and rude. I kept wondering if something terrible had happened to this guy offscreen to justify why this guy who had just gotten 13 new lives, his home planet back to existence, and basically everything else he wanted was being such a petulant shit to the…

We'll have to agree to disagree—I found it alarmingly out of character. Perhaps more importantly, it leaves us with a story where the stakes were never real. The Doctor didn't just lie to Clara, the writers didn't play fair with the audience—they built an entire episode around an impending danger that never really…

The Ashildr episodes were good. The premiere had a lot going for it but was also weighed down by a lot of nonsense. Same for the Zygon episodes. I haven't seen the other two parter, but based on everything else I'd say this season is an improvement over Season 8 (which I found truly hateful) and possibly Season 7, but…

Well, Name of the Doctor was pretty nonsensical too.

He leaves (for no reason), she rises to the challenge (by having the whole world [well, the half she can see] vote on what to do and then ignoring them on a hunch.)

"Yes you could drive a truck through the gaps in logic / scientific understanding, but it had some great character moments. "

Which, amazingly, got an A here. I'm not sure what this show has to do to get lower than a B—moon babies and booger monsters apparently aren't enough, insulting the audience's intelligence isn't enough.

Fitz and Olivia are "better people together?" Last week Olivia set free the guy who murdered Fitz's child. Fitz started a war and got hundreds killed to save Olivia. They are both horrendous people, and they make each other even worse.

I'm an eighth grade teacher. My students LOATHE Trump, and like to talk about how much they loathe Trump at length. It's a mostly Hispanic area, and they're a few years from voting age, but that's my two cents.

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This time with 50% more things

Can it be four things?

I hardly see how Jimmy being the same age as Clark is a dealbreaker, especially given the numerous ways they ruined most of the other icons.

Oh, Smallville. I'll always have a soft spot for this terrible show as it marked my first foray into fandom. I was in seventh grade when I watched the premiere and I was immediately hooked. It was the first show I ever sought out message boards and fan fiction for, and it (along with the equally terrible Birds of…