Agree 100%, I had the same reaction to that comment in the review. Then the review eventually says "I don’t care about the day-to-day business of the campaign, but I do care about how it’s affecting Alicia’s perceptions of herself." The entire season, indeed the entire run of the whole freaking show, is about how…

I absolutely love the fact that Alicia's day is a complete chaos of competing priorities even when she's home alone all by herself.

Actually, what he talks like is a Governor trying to score a political win.

Well, now that the episode has aired in Australia I can read this review and comment on it.

"Mulder, what we've walked into here is a Mexican soap opera".

"but it would've felt more natural if he'd at least already had some trouble with the ole bloody palm blues"

'Tithonus' is my favourite episode of the entire X-Files. Vince Gilligan writing a Scully-centred episode that relies on subtle characterisation instead of shocks is my idea of X-Files heaven. Everything is so beautifully restrained, and some of the cinematography is sublime. The image of a wounded Scully sliding down…

'Tithonus' is my favourite episode of the entire X-Files. Vince Gilligan writing a Scully-centred episode that relies on subtle characterisation instead of shocks is my idea of X-Files heaven. Everything is so beautifully restrained, and some of the cinematography is sublime. The image of a wounded Scully sliding down…

"This is less a one big story than it is two smaller stories tenuously connected; which isn’t a huge problem or anything,"

Equating Soft Light and Our Town just mystifies me. Because to me, Soft Light is a clever script with lots of nice little touches and a case that's unfolded through some actual detective work, and Our Town is a script with a distracting number of problems that fails to convince.

I do not buy for one second this rumour that the original ending was for Clara to die of old age. Since when is a Time Lord going to be put out by something as trivial as that? If he really wanted to make things right with her, he could just hop back to an earlier point in her time line.

"The Doctor could have said something about time being in flux or that Clara only assumed it was HER descendant when it was really another relative of Danny's."

There's absolutely nothing new you can do with it? Well of course there's nothing new you can do with the BASIC CONCEPT, because it is what it is. But have you seen another "dream within a dream" story where Santa attacks a base with rainbow slinkies?

It's been half a season. You're thinking way too short term by the standards of this show.

Scary, light-hearted and poignant at different points of time. Really, Doctor Who is one of the few shows that tries to mix all that into a single episode (the only others I can think of are Buffy the Vampire Slayer and, more recently, the first season of the Swedish show Real Humans).

Hmm. That was certainly "different".

"- I found it hard to believe the ambassador's husband would go so far as
to give intel that would potentially kill so many people including his
wife etc."

It's interesting to see how many people can say "how stupid that the tunnel was unguarded", when the show just gave a very dramatic reason as to why the tunnel was unguarded at that particular moment. The tunnel being unguarded is not a permanent state of affairs, it is the state of affairs because the director of the…

Fair enough, I don't mind a bit of theorizing. It's more when it becomes complaining about not knowing everything. I don't know everything in my own life, and I live that 24 hours a day, not 1 hour a week.

It always puzzles me a little when people point out unresolved smaller plot points in Doctor Who. First, neither life nor storytelling is like that. Second, this show is most DEFINITELY not like that (nor are a lot of TV shows these days). There's another episode in 6 weeks, and another dozen after that.