My armchair theory hinges on the fan-notion that a Tardis naturally wants to home in on some sort of problem.

I fully agree.

My understanding of their "arm brains" is that it's a bit like a seeing-eye dog, if one lived in a wet-ware dystopia where seeing-eye dogs were stripped of any behavior traits and mental functions that could interfere with their "service animal" use.

I hope I'm not the only person who plans to, once we get the final (eh.. or is it "First"?) Dr. River Song story, watch all her episodes in reverse order so I can see it from her perspective.

Note also, when we see the good close-up of the Silent that was shot, they're not normal suits.

It was (and is) a lovely, lovely show.

I didn't think it was actually the Spanish Flu in Corspey McDeadGuy's lungs.

I've had one of these in me! DaVinci machine, that is, not Operation game (or Hopkins folks). And not the entire machine, but just the waldos.

I'm not sure he's actually out of the city.

And Smith is surprisingly good at acting like a very very very old man in a young man's body, when he wants to.

As I often tell folks whom I want to sell onto New Who, I strongly suggest The Girl in the Fireplace.

RE: Exclamation point.

My guess was the latter. The "of course it couldn't be that easy", one.

I'll second (well, third) the praise for Platinum Grit as well!

Surprisingly, the Beastmaster series wasn't all that bad (well, it wasn't worse than one would expect), and tied in with the original film.

That's my biggest complaint about SGU and SG:1 getting the axe.

I'm really really hoping that one of the characters realizes pretty quickly, "Extra folks? Low resources? Wait... didn't we find a whole bank of pods the other week?"

I was actually hoping there'd be a lot more of that.

If all it takes is a scratch from a shifted were-thing, and if the pre-birth kid was shifting (which seemed to be the implication), I could see it being plausible.

My guess is No.1