Yeah the voice change surprised me since on 30 Rock I could have sworn she sounded pretty different just a decade or so ago. (It could be an acting choice that she assumes a more stentorian vibe though)

Ugh, that is terribly dark. While RTD has this reputation of his era being mawkishly sentimental and full of farting aliens and Moffat's supposed to be self-satisfied and misanthropic, RTD has had plenty of kind of unduly cruel things happen to characters. (I keep reminding myself of that second coming miniseries with…

Huh, in hindsight there's a possibility I've only ever seen Revenge of the Sith once (and in theaters despite apparently owning the DVD). I thought they reconned Leia's memories of her mother to be about her adopted mother when it turns out Padme died "of a broken heart" giving birth. (Which if anything is worse to me…

Kilgrave did imply that while Jessica tried to monitor Luke for the 12 hours or whatever that she thought his powers lasted, his father did manage to make them last a few hours longer.

I remembered it as a male voice but apparently even the fan-wiki doesn't know the answer. http://tardis.wikia.com/wik… Or I skimmed it poorly and they refer to something else besides "the entity."

I thought the ones in Legend of Korra were fun—they were so incongruous with the monk robes the characters normally wore and the Jazz-age Shanghai aesthetic of most of the townspeople.

I think he's come up with a number of pretty memorable themes sometimes, but I do get annoyed with the mixing. I think that's essentially been a problem for me since the Eccelston episodes however, and I assume there must have been some staff change there enough for it to be an intentional aural aesthetic they're…

I thought only one of her husbands lived and I guess living as a giant robot. (is he still a king in any capacity? Probably not if he's waitstaff…)

Pompeii reminds me— so they did relatively recently (I think) explain the Doctor chose Capaldi's face to remind him of how he could save one life in spite of what fate suggests, but did they ever explain how his face turned up in Torchwood too? I remember apparently RTD did have something that'd have worked for that…

I didn't know that many people hated Voyage of the Damned, I thought it's a bit of a goofy fun lark where everyone dies senselessly— aside from some of the people you'd rather had. And I remember Runaway Bride had some charming bits. I think End of Time's been the only utterly awful one. (I just can't remember…

I found Moffat setting up mysteries to be frustrating since I could never tell what would be relevant or when.

The fact you got the specific episode title suggests that you have still seen the first half of that two-parter? Is it like an active decision thing to not have seen the second half or just things kept getting in the way?

They kind of did tease at this story with 11 in a DVD extra that probably doesn't make all that much sense out of context ( http://www.dailymotion.com/… ) but they did give themselves an out.

There was that one largely not great episode where Matt Smith had some fantastic chemistry with Helen McCrory. She was an older woman vampire fish queen with a quasi-incestous vibe with her son but in the scenes where they tried to out-clever one another, she and Smith had some quasi-flirty banter going on.

It seems like that show would run into issues of needing Maisie Williams and she needs to remain essentially ageless looking (she's doing pretty well?) but I thought that Clara's tenure on the show mostly revolved around the actress' willingness to return and going to a spin-off doesn't seem like that'd work. Even if…

I'm not sure if it's a matter of me or the show changing but I just haven't been retaining a lot of the narrative ephemera after Matt Smith's first season. Did they make it clear that the Doctor only ever encountered River when she looked like Kingston?

which regeneration is Alex Kingston? Of course I guess she could always keep coming back to this form, I forget if they ever spelled that out in the episode when she started off as Amy and Rory's friend.

(One of?) the female Asian pilot(s) was also the lead of a TV show, and apparently one of the petty officers was Thomas Brodie Sangster. He seems like a relatively prominent actor to maybe or maybe not get a character name — even if I don't remember seeing him at all.

It seems like the fiscal impossibilities of some things might be a deterrent. We have the technological means to get to the moon or have Concords but it's not like we're actually following through with those anymore. Granted I guess neither of those directly make war easier. (I can't remember if Agent Orange is still…

Has Driver ever played anyone besides a Brooklyn hipster? Aside from trailers and ads I've only ever seen him in (Oscar Isaac's) Inside Llewyn Davis, and even then he's some variety of New York scenester.