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Anthony Strand
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Yeah, I totally get that. It seems weird to have that, as you and Phil Sandifer say, Heritage Theme Park version of Churchill so prominent in the show's lore.

I kind of love "Mark of the Rani." It's a mess, but it's a ridiculously fun one. Plus, it's one of the few stories where the Doctor and Peri seem like friends who bicker playfully rather than two people who can't stand each other.

Matt Fitton, Jenny Colgan, and James Goss (all of whom have written many Doctor Who stories before in media other than TV)

They do have an app. The interface isn't great, but it exists.

I bought all four Dark Eyes sets, but I haven't listened to any of them yet (my wife and I decided to go back and catch some of the "classic" stories from other Doctors first - Spare Parts, The One Doctor, The Holy Terror, etc.).

The McCoy era is one of the weirdest and most fascinating in the show's history. Like @thadboyd:disqus mentions, the 7th Doctor is always executing big, complicated plans, but there are also several stories (most notably "The Happiness Patrol" and "Paradise Towers") that hide stark thematic darkness behind bright,

Yeah, that Churchill box set sounds like something they went ahead with when they weren't sure they'd be able to get any of the actual new series Doctors. And now they did, it's unnecessary.

My favorite of hers is Assassination Vacation, a surprisingly hilarious tour of important spots associated with the Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley assassinations. But really, all of her books are pretty great.

Also a reminder of Lobsters at his Lobsters-iest.

She'd be Tina Fey's 107-year-old mother. But yeah, I'd love to have seen her opposite Madeline Kahn or Teri Garr.

Three? Isn't he just the governor and the Indian Chief?

In the Disney movie, it was actually a young boy (Bobby Driscoll was 16 when the movie was released, probably 13 or so when he recorded his dialogue.)

I get what you're saying. In theory I don't disagree.

I disagree. To me, it's a lot more creative for writers to introduce a seemingly impossible task and then have their hero come up with an unexpected way to beat it.

Is that unique? That's how Man of Steel ends.

I didn't like that sketch much the first time I watched it, but then I sponsored Doctor Who Club at school a couple years ago, and I showed that as part of our April Fool's Day meeting (along with "Curse of Fatal Death" and "Time Crash" and some other silliness like that).

I liked "Children of Earth" pretty well, but it falls apart for me at the end. Mostly because I really hate "Remember that one thing the hero he'd definitely never do? The only way he can win is by doing that exact thing" endings.

That's the perfect description of him.

Jimmy Fallon was 23 when that movie came out.