Oh! So you hadn't figured out my plan until I gave it away. Well, drat.

Dang, you caught that slip. Well played, Mr. Greene.

I dunno, man. No matter how eloquently and/or pretentiously I dress it up, it would feel tantamount to checking out someone's website and saying, 'I don't like your style! It's not for me!' I really don't want to be a dick, you know? It's possible that I'm being overly sensitive, though.

At any rate, while I haven't read the entire piece yet, I'll note that he sounds like a critic whose knowledge of feminist history, literature, and theory is limited to whatever bled over into his Film Studies courses. I can say this with some confidence as I myself dual-majored in English and Film Studies. (Something…

Was that last line sarcastic? Have you turned on me? Is this the end of our budding, Disqus-based e-friendship? :(

Unfortunately, yes, if we're bothering to differentiate between 'sexism' and outright 'misogyny.' (Some don't, for some pretty good reasons, but I digress.) Insofar as I can judge a man I've never met at all, I'd argue that he seems less like someone who outright hates women than someone who has some problematic…

It's not that you're wrong so much as 'kid's show' is too often synonymous with 'dumb as can get,' because kids are often treated like tiny idiots who have yet to grow brains. They're smarter than that, and can appreciate goofy humour that doesn't feel like it's tripping over itself to pander to 'em.

Oh, thanks goodness someone else pointed that out! I started to think that I was simply an old fogey for thinking that killing a dude in cold blood wasn't quite a heroic thing to do. I know it was more a challenge than a surrender, but I'd like to think that, for most folks, a person sticking their arms out and…

Yeah. I dig what they were trying to do with the story, and it works very well initially, but… for me, Fat Bastard is even harder to ignore than the farting aliens (who at least gave us that more introspective episode, Boom Town). So, so awful.

YES YES YES

Da. Nothing bugs me more than when they turn the Doctor from a brilliant idiot into a regular idiot. It may not seem like that far a leap, but it makes all the difference in the dang world. Sort of soured Matt Smith's run for me; the writing going to pot didn't help matters, but the fact that the character went…

That intro isn't really helping. Ye gods.

He kind of lost me with the post talking about how Doctor Who has always been sexist, criticizing specific writers up to and including Russel T. Davies, then using all of that to defend Moffat before insisting that if Moffat's Who is sexist, it really is society's fault. Ugh. Pretty weak and not as academic as I was…

That whole scene was bizarre and, basically, terrible. I'll just quote something one of my pals wrote about it, because it made me laugh:

I agree - I think it had the best collection of standalone episodes, pound-for-pound. But man did those initially-intriguing mysteries ('How will the Doctor survive his death? Who is the little girl regenerating in the alley? Who's in the space suit? What's the deal with the lady only Amy can see? What's up with Amy's…

I once read some theory/criticism that argued that Series 5 is rooted in fairy tales, and Series 6 is rooted in dark fairy tales. I think it fits.

Not to sound like a broken record, but I'm definitely with you on this; I've been grouching about Doctor Who's loss of a moral centre for a while now. It is one of the (many, admittedly) reasons I'm not enjoying the Moffat years - why the series seems so hollow and skin-deep. I think a lot of people forget just how…

Your examples are a bit weird in that, love it or hate it, The Shakespeare Code has a pretty clear plot (what with the witches and whatnot), whereas Vincent and the Doctor, though a personal favourite, had a sub-plot* involving a lost, invisible baby space chicken that felt absolutely secondary to the stuff with…

oh god that's much worse

Wait, which Wesley? Are we talking about the one from Angel? Because in a way, the Doctor is sort of like a latter-series Wesley that still tries to cling to the belief that he's the same man from the beginning of the series. Well, you get the idea, I think? That's how you end up with so many little incongruities and,…