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One thing I don't like about the aging thing is that it tries to over explain the behind the scenes of the show. We know that companions were created because the Doctor needed a stand in for the audience to explain stuff. They also tended to be young because it was a kids' show with an old man in the lead. I assume that by the 70's producers figured that an attractive young female would keep the dads from changing the channel when the kids wanted to watch Doctor Who. That's just the way TV is. This Moffat-splaining of why women can't get old who travel with the Doctor was superfluous IMHO.

FYI is airing the series again today as a marathon. Two more weeks to go. Is the First Year show going to totally dump Vaughn and Monet or do they get updates where they look for love (or fame, same thing)? On the forum side, will the episode threads be season 2 or will they be MAFSTFY season 1? I guess there's going to be a new season with different fame whores coming in the summer.

I may have to curse loudly the fact that I'm about 10 miles out of range for Retro TV. For the time being, I have the first Tom Baker series recorded on VHS so I don't have to be too angry yet.

I think Danny's (and Rory's) observations about the Doctor are pretty accurate for the kind of pompous ass we see in NuWho. The Doctor may not b a military leader, but he has the effect of one. He surrounds himself with people who believe in him and follow his orders. He convinces people to risk (and give up) their lives, sometimes when he knows that's the outcome. If "a good man goes to war" when it's the Doctor, it's also the case when any military power engages in a just war. In Classic Who, the case would be harder to make. People gave up their lives for their own beliefs. Companions of the Doctor died, but generally by accident. Besides being Doctor focused,(and the Classic series really wasn't) the show is seriously Earth-focused. In this season, only a few episodes were off-planet and only Time Heist wasn't majority human. That's happened before in DW, but in this case the earthiness was used to construct another needlessly involved season arc. No one seems to be able to make a good anthology series anymore.

The Danny Pink storyline could have worked much better if we got a little more of his backstory and if there was an actual relationship between him and Clara. Instead of Danny being right about the Doctor being the general, they made him wrong because despite all the other half dozen times he commanded others, he refused an army of Cybermen. Danny could have been the reason Clara decided to stop running from the tragedies in her life with the Doctor and start her own family, but Moffat just has to pull a fast one on the audience every time. Why give us happily ever after when you can give us Danny dying three times. I think he died more than Rory. When the unexpected is the norm, it's not unexpected anymore. So many viewers guess what Moffat was going to do, it just ended up being dumb. I miss the days of the rubber monsters because at least their motives had substance.

It's still better than when she tried to kill him to get Danny back.

It's ironic that when the Classic Who was on BBC, it was considered a children's show. It's more childish now that it's allowed to be more adult.

Bastards! Anyway, I'd like to see a mini-reboot of Clara and the Doctor, sort of like how Six and Peri started actually getting along in his second series. It would make her considerably less annoying. They managed to do it with Amy when they finally stopped making her the most important girl in the universe. This confirms that Danny was nothing more than an obstacle. Clara can have her sad for 5 minutes a day and doesn't have to worry about him disapproving of her. Plus, that whole "Doctor putting her in danger" thing apparently doesn't matter to her now. I assume they'll just come up with an alternate universe Danny or something anyway.

New BBC trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yge3X0HS6DE

At least Daniel's death led to a Conrad cameo. Are they setting up the Ellis family as the new villains?

I'm pretty convinced that network execs think the viewing public doesn't know what's good and they can only go by the numbers. I got sucked into this show and a show called Matador (also canceled) because of On Demand and online airings. I think the networks are still basing decisions on appointment television. As much as I like Selfie, I'm not going to watch it "live" over The Flash.

I get an e-mail at work from HR on my birthday, which I otherwise keep under wraps. Julia seems to be emulating Lilith Crane from Cheers. I think she said when they first met that them being so similar wouldn't work out, even though Henry is giving it a try. At least he has someone to bring him out of his shell. I think Freddy is Eliza's boyfriend now, especially after he visited her in the hospital. Henry still sees himself as Eliza's teacher and not necessarily as someone who can learn from her. That concert was pretty awesome. Ron Funches as Henry's new Blues Traveler friend and John Popper giving them the runaround with the thing fans ever want to hear at a concert.

That's weird. Traumatic Party Stress Disorder was on Demand for Time Warner. I thought it was just a regular airing.

Wasn't Matt Smith also one of the Johns in Billie Piper's prostitute show?

This wasn't a case of Kat having a change of heart. This was Kat rewriting reality as a way to raise her profile on the show. Adrianne was pointing out that Kat lied about stuff on the show, then called her a lesbian for the sake of a stupid plot line on an episode. Kat is both a moderately entertaining cast member of Below Deck and a horrible human being. Adrianne is a boring cast member of Below Deck and decent human being. My enjoyment of someone on a reality show does not equate to my opinion of them as a good person.

That was Final Destination 1. I think they made about 200 sequels. I have no doubt Capaldi has the chops for this. I only have to think back to Torchwood Series 3 (which was generally bad) and how much emotion he brought to his character and what he was faced with. Sadly, I can't see it very often with 12. Watching his "I'm not a good man" bit with Misty, I notice he's developing awful catch phrases like "Shut up!" and "Idiot." Now we get another Christmas special, even though there is supposedly no Heaven or afterlife. I can only think of 2 good Christmas specials, the first and maybe "The Next Doctor."

I think the problem is that Moffat wrote some good one (and two) offs in his time and now he seems to treat each season as a single, plot thin story arc. Star Trek fans loved "The Inner Light" and "The Visitor," but they were isolated stories. "Blink" was a good story, but it kept getting resurrected until the Weeping Angels made no sense. Plus, it was where "timey-wimey" was invented. Then we have Davies atrocities like "Love and Monsters" even though he was more solid as a show runner.

I feel bad about saying this, but it would have been really satisfying if that kid Danny saved murdered Clara in her sleep. And why did Nick Frost show up at the end of what was basically a zombie movie? He should have been running over Cybermen with a car or something.

As much as I love the Brigadier, bringing him back as a CYBERMAN is downright ghoulish. Not only that, but we're supposed to believe that every death in human history was stored in the Nether Region? Plus, the Cybermen are now the Borg. By Star Trek: Voyager, the Borg used nanotechnology to turn people into drones on the spot.

The Master won. Over the course of a year or so, he ruined Doctor Who. Not the person, mind you, but the show. I can only assume this was some meta plan from Moffat to show us that we hate Clara because the Master wanted us to hate Clara. Seriously, the best 5 minutes of this series was when Clara unlatched her suckers from the Doctor. I may need a year break just to get the taste out of my mouth.

I don't even know if they're fans. They seem to be stuck at some age where seeing Daleks! or Cybermen! was so cool the story didn't matter. Plus, they loosed themselves of all restraints. In the original, the Doctor could go anywhere in time and space, but not directly. There were no time-locked cell phones. Galifrey still had a leash on him. Time could NOT be rewritten. When the Doctor showed up somewhere, it was because he was a part of history. The Weeping Angels episode may be the worst of the show because it introduced "timey-wimey."

Both consequence and memory free.

I like Cami. I like the actress. Leah Pipes definitely has opinions, Cami less so. Cami seems to have issues with dating bad boys that has not really been shown in her history so far. Klaus wants to own her, Marcel wants her to be his girlfriend. I think Cami is attracted to both, but she sees Marcel as more redeemable. The psych thing comes in where she knows Klaus is extremely damaged emotionally and thinks he needs some serious therapy. Plus, she's trying to lessen the damage, like making him swear not to kill Davina. Personally, Klaus needs to be fixed with a stake to the heart, much like Damon from TVD.

As a classic Who watcher, rolling pepper pots and lumbering tin men weren't a bunch of badasses. What was badass was the stories of their conquests or the way they trapped our heroes. The very first NuWho Dalek episode was great, because it was damaged and helpless and the Doctor was still scared shitless. Eccleston sold that. Later on, when there were millions of them and the Doctor got all badass and said he would stop them, (even though he didn't) it kind of sucked the danger out of the Daleks. One of the only good Cyberman stories was actually the alternate universe where Rose's father inadvertently created them. The problem is that since Star Trek the Next Generation came after the original DW, the Cybermen and the Daleks are basically the Borg. That's why they are good for 1-2 episodes and not the big bad season-long villain.

I don't object to Cybermen per se, but the WHOLE SEASON has been servicing this idiotic arc. So, here's a question. Was Clara changed before she was returned to her body in "The Bells of St. John?" I don't know, but I bet that question is a lot more interesting that what Moffat cooks up next week.