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I don't actually think the whole "using the dead" thing makes any sense. You have to store the consciousness in a data core and you have to use this tank to grow the suit. You have to transmit other stuff to the graves, apparently, in what sounds like a zombie Cyberman Apocalypse. Plus, they have 3W centers all over the world. The only thing that would make this possible is Timey-wimey Lord technology. The Cybermen have been pretty effective at Borging other worlds, taking humans and augmenting them with Cybermen tech. Why use a corpse that's all decaying and put them in storage to spring it on the Doctor. That's the kind of thing a showy super villain would do. Oh, wait.

I think it's like a lot of other things on the boat. The place is just a hotel on water, so the sheets will be clean, but very broken in. The crew will honor your requests, but only for stuff you asked them to stock. You get a chef, but he may be moody and temperamental. They may say "high-speed internet," but that just means it's faster than dial-up. Satellite internet is faster than DSL, but slower than cable or fiber. The ping (lag) is horrible, so it is not good for the kind of real-time stock trading they were trying to do. The internet on a charter yacht is for e-mail and Facebook. It probably wouldn't even handle Netflix very well.

I found that anti-cremation stuff to be highly offensive, until they revealed it's just a ruse to keep the body intact for Cybermanning. Even worse, CLARA has used the finger clicking thing on the doors (although she was closing them). River Song seems to be in contact with the Doctor. She was with Eleven on Trenzalore, apparently after her library death. The problem with bringing back Galifrey is that the Doctor will no longer be THE LAST OF HIS KIND. I'm not sure if Moffat could handle writing that, even though DW writers managed to do it for 25 series.

Ellen DeGeneres' sitcom had about three different titles and it was mostly successful. Selfie being in a death time slot is the biggest strike against it.

Did the guy think his internet would be better if he were near shore? Ha! The whole point of satellite internet is that every point on Earth is essentially equidistant from one satellite. Where you are on the surface makes no difference.

Talky Toasters. If only Grant Naylor were running Doctor Who.

This episode got off to a great start. Then the Doctor clarified what he meant by "Go to Hell." I found it especially chilling because it reminded me of Season 4 Torchwood. S4 Torchwood = always bad.

Rose Tyler: If you are an alien how come you sound like you're from the North? The Doctor: Lots of planets have a North! Being an American, they all talk funny to me.

Cybermen? Cybermen? Seriously? The whole season was co-opted for the damn Cybermen? First Season - Bad Wolf = Daleks Second Season = Daleks + Cybermen fighting Season 3 = The Master Season 4 - Doctor Donna = Daleks Season 5 - Pandorica = The Doctor's enemies (Daleks, Cybermen) vs the Universe Season 6 - The Silence (a NEW enemy for once) Season 7 - The Great Intelligence (and apparently, The Master) Season 8 - The Master and Cybermen Cybermen are 1 episode stories at most. Hell, Daleks only warrant 2. Jesus, couldn't they have made the Time Lady The Rani or maybe Romana. THAT would have been interesting. This is becoming the same stories and the same villains over and over. There's more plot development on The Vampire Diaries.

Did Nicola Bryant have to maintain an "American" accent in the Big Finish stories? Michael Grade can burn in hell.

I can kind of understand Danny. Traveling with the Doctor isn't about seeing the wonders of the universe, it's usually about being in danger while seeing the wonders of the universe. Danny might be a recovering adrenaline junkie or he just had enough. Obviously, almost anyone who watches Doctor Who would want to take a trip on the TARDIS. There are a lot of people in the rest of the world who would be too freaked out by such a thing. I just don't know why he's interested in Clara. I suppose it doesn't matter, because we're going to find out Clara isn't real, kind of like that Amy Pond made of goo that was traveling with the Doctor for months.

I thought it was interesting Kate was born with no sense of smell. It would explain why she doesn't eat much, since food probably doesn't have much taste. I really liked this BTS show. There was some good unseen footage. I watched the dregs that "Married at First Sight" tried to pull out for their special and it was boring as hell. Below Deck tonight was at least as good as a regular episode. I was watching Eddie and it finally hit me. When he does his funny face, he looks like Jim Breuer from SNL.

I'd say NuWHo is almost like the JJ Abrams reboot. Unbelievable amounts of money made it look better, but the story did more to serve the special effects.

This episode is so bad, it makes me question the wisdom of bringing back Doctor Who at all. This abomination is sacrificing everything that is Doctor Who to satisfy the ego of the show runners. I can't tell if I'll keep watching and be sad, keep watching because I don't care about the show anymore or stop watching to preserve my sanity.

I still don't know what the glowy things were, but the Doctor was changing the gravity to keep them from flying away. Of course, a SONIC device couldn't do that and if the gravity were that high, they would have been on the ground. I assume Missy was handing out the Doctor's contact info again. The Doctor said that people who lost someone are more prone to be looking for something, anything. Trees can only sequester carbon dioxide. Once they dissolved (or burned or decayed) the CO2 would be back in the atmosphere. Then again, if the trees made a layer of oxygen to protect the planet, the atmosphere would blow up. Besides the fact that we already have a protective shield of oxygen over the earth generally referred to as the Ozone Layer.

There aren't all that many sixth Doctor episodes to begin with. They expanded the show to 45 minutes in his first season, which led to fewer total episodes. I would highly recommend renting the "Trial of a Time Lord" DVDs. I got mine from Netflix and there were 2-3 discs, I think. Even though I watched that when PBS first rebroadcast it, I had no idea about the back story, which is covered in the special features. Basically, Doctor Who was cancelled after the first season of Six. Fan reaction made the BBC bring it back, and they lied and said they were "resting" it. They couldn't bring it back for 18 months because the budget was already allocated for BBC. When they did, they scrapped the original 23rd season and made the 14 part Trial instead. There are elements of Six I liked that were unfortunately hurt by the outfit, (basically JNT's fault) his somewhat erratic characterization and the fact that Mel appeared out of sequence, so we never saw her introduced. Plus, what happened to Peri didn't make any sense.

And Andrew was the one who defiled the pillow.

Are you dense? They're MAGIC TREES. They can do anything. Obviously, they found the sister who was probably abducted and magically transported her in a bush shuttle. It's all very reasonable if you've had a recent blow to the head. Magic under the earth is beginning to make me think about Season 4 of Torchwood. Anything that makes me think of Season 4 Torchwood is automatically bad.

I bet someone pitched this as "My Fair Selfie" and got the title shortened by network execs.

ABC should just put some cheap reality show to Tuesday at 8 and move Selfie to a less competitive time slot. I haven't watched an episode "live" yet and probably can't until the CW and NBC are in reruns.

The worst part of the episode is that I knew that trees were going to save the Earth as soon as I saw the coronal mass ejection. It took the Doctor until the end of the episode to do the same. Even if the explanation makes no sense, I want the Doctor to have the semblance of being smarter than I am. Now that the finale begins, we can see that Clara has gone mad and everything that happened before will be retconned into the Missy story line (emphasis on conned). I wish we could have had this stupid finale story first and had a season of the Doctor with a new companion having interesting and fun adventures instead.

I see parallels between him and the First Doctor. Had the original Doctor Who been about the companion(s) I think Hartnell's Doctor would have taken a lot longer for people to warm up to him. I think it's also what's happening here. Clara's destiny had been fulfilled as the Dcotor's savior from the GE. So now Clara has to have a new purpose. I don't think any companion in NuWho has just been someone along for the ride. They were either the savior of the Earth or the salvation of the universe. Most of their great purposes were also foretold long before we saw it on screen. It makes the Doctor less special.

I think Logan might have been like a real deckhand, probably because Bravo couldn't find another colorful incompetent on short notice. I think Kat came off better last season because Sam was such an incredible pain in the ass. Remember the first episode of S1, when Kat found the drugs in the charter's bathroom? This season, she probably would have shown it to Kate and joked about snorting some to test it. I think it's inevitable that with every passing season of a reality show, it gets less real.

It's decent continuity, too. Sometimes a co-worker shows up in a sitcom, never to be seen again. Selfie seems to use the same employees in this company over and over, like a real office.

Now that you know what it means, I think it explains a lot because some of them thought "rave" before crybaby when they saw the pacifiers.