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As far as the former nurse thing, Jamie posted a nursie (a nurse seflie) on twitter last night. I don't she's got enough financial stability to qui that gig yet.

I would say Vaughn is a potential scrub if he wants to ditch his real job for modeling. Jamie Otis models, too and she's still getting her paycheck and medical insurance from being an RN. Vaughn and Monet really missed the gravy train if there's a new show following the couples from MAFS. I've seen FYI's schedule and they don't have much to offer otherwise. They will eventually suck all the novelty and interest out of the two couples and dump them as soon as MAFS 2 is ready. So, it seems that Jamie's trailer park hell hole is a couple of hours away from me. Then again, there are plenty of families in houses that are abusive assholes as well.

Doctor Who would have to piss me off a lot to stop watching it. I'm just disappointed in this season because I'm excited about Peter Capaldi and I'm getting the Jenna Coleman make-up test. Coleman's problem goes back to the fact that she was exciting and mysterious up until about the third episode when she was an actual companion. It's strong set up and weak delivery. That being said, Doctor Who always had flaws in production, effects, writing and continuity. Original Who had miles of heart and I think that might be lacking in later seasons.

And really, Amy Pond's first storyline ended with The Big Bang. So Moffat wrote a new arc where Amy and Rory were River's parents and that whole mess. In some ways, I'd be a lot less annoyed with River if she were a female Doctor, which is what she was later in the series.

That's pretty offensive for Moffat to try comparing Clara to Sarah Jane Smith. Every companion (and actress playing her) has an adjustment period. Jenna Coleman had two of them. Plus, she's leaving anyway. People always hate the new doctor / companion and the quality of the stories is what brings the audience around. Instead, he trying to make people love her and the audience is begging off the new Doctor. As far as Sarah Jane, Lis Sladen was working with Jon Pertwee at a point where he was pretty debilitated with back problems and wasn't as physical as earlier. Tom Baker was a younger and more engaged Doctor by comparison. I think Martha may have been the last (only) companion who was just kind of a stray picked up by the Doctor. Even Donna was a kind of Doctor groupie when she officially became his companion.

Doug is the template for how a not that hot guy pulls a hot girl. Put up with the crazy for long enough, and you're golden. The one thing about Vaughn's "hand" comment is that it puts the surgery thing into perspective. I remember he kept whining about not being thanked for that, and now I think we know what "thank" translates to. I don't think Vaughn needs to go to hookers, though. He's got another 5 years of decent 1 night stands before he's too old.

I thought it was funny when Monet implied that Vaughn didn't like black women then Vaughn had the experts confirm that he wanted a black woman. Then she claimed he wanted a light skinned black woman. I think the worst one in that relationship was Cilona, because he apparently doesn't think chemistry is a real thing with couples. I suppose Jamie (and Doug) could be a big fame whore in this, but she's working pretty hard considering she had to get married, have marital relations and stay with a guy for a show on second-tier digital cable.

Strax's field report was good, especially since he seemed to approve of Three the most.

It was on the casting special, I think. They made some teaser pairings, like Vaughn and the virgin and Jamie with Jason. I think that actually would have been bad because Jason doesn't need that much high maintenance and he's good looking enough to not be obsessed with Jamie.

From the original series, Tom Baker to Peter Davison was pretty drawn out, just because Four was so popular they wanted more of a send off. Davison to Colin Baker was kind of similar to the Tennant one because it implied that the Doctor could actually die instead of regenerate. In some ways, that was also the most dramatic regeneration because Colin Baker was straight up violent when he woke up.

That would really suck. I was on board with Capaldi from the newspaper clipping of him writing about how he loved Doctor Who at 15 years old. Even though Capaldi has kind of a menacing visage, Matt Smith was way too young in my opinion and had this death-like complexion.

From what I understand, Eric Roberts also had disparaging things to say about Doctor Who as a whole, and for that he can kiss my ass. Eric Roberts is most famous for doing a parade of the worst movies, almost all of which he should be embarrassed about being in. After seeing some interviews with Colin Baker, I decided to Netflix the DVDs for "Trial of a Time Lord" including the extra commentaries. The commentaries are amazing because they really tell the story of how the BBC was trying to kill Who and the writer who actually died writing the 23rd season. Even with all the difficulties, I find Trial to be the best multi-part Who story to date and the opening title sequence to be about as cool as you could get for the budget.

The First Doctor had two companions and a granddaughter. Peter Davison was closest to that when he had up to three companions, one a male. The early doctors were older and I think they didn't want a young male companion because there might be some kind of alpha male contest involved. Ironically, the companions were female because women would supposedly be more willing to follow the Doctor. Now, the women are companions on their terms, except maybe for Martha. Interestingly enough, Davison was told the Doctor could not touch the female companions in any way since he was 31 and looked almost as young as his companions. That was back when the BBC tried not to intimate sexual tension. I remember that school uniform Turlough had. It looked like he was auditioning for AC/DC.

Can I just pretend Clara was consoling the Master?

Zoe was a genius, like a human computer. She wasn't clever, which is the most important thing in Who now. She could calculate better than the Doctor, but he was better at plotting and planning and mystery solving.

There's also Adric, who got a little more respect, but ultimately died failing to stop the ship that would eventually lead to all human life. It's funny how a couple of decades have turned the companion for a Doctor translator to a savior. The show used to let you ask "what if I were picked to go on a wonderful adventure through time and space?" Now it's "What if I were the most important person in the universe?" The new Doctors have a big ego because companion egos are even bigger now.

One of the things that killed original Doctor Who was the cheapness of the sets and costumes. The BBC still doesn't have much of a budget, but computers can do wonders for little cost. Sadly, the programmers at BBC decided that higher budget American imports were intrinsically better in the late 80's. Sometimes the British guys in rubber suits or the women with elaborate wigs said some stupid dialogue, but the concepts and stories were actually pretty interesting and provocative. The Doctor with the ugliest coat was part of the longest and most introspective story arc of the series. NuWho is becoming Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Overly strong female characters and season-long villains who are defeated in the 45 minute finale. Even the dialogue is banter-y, which Moffat tried to meta in Robot of Sherwood.

Ten started this trend of the Doctor being some super being who was the guardian of the universe. Even Nine used the word clever too much, something the original Doctors never had to do. The Doctor is a renegade Time Lord who stole a TARDIS. He's more brash and intelligent than other Time Lords, but he was never all alone until this new series. At the same time, instead of being the eyes of the viewer, Clara is the brain of the Doctor. I'm dealing with Twelve as being sort of a Merlin character. He looks old, but he is a new incarnation of the Doctor, having been given a new set of regenerations by the Time Lords. It seems to be churning up his oldest fears and memories.

Clara is a big believer in fate from the whole leaf story about her parents. I'd think other companions would try to fight the idea that their history is spelled out for them, but Clara may embrace it. With Clara and Amy, there are basically two special stories attached. Amy was exposed to the rift and was able to prevent the destruction of the TARDIS and bring back Rory, which actually ended up being a good season. Then there's the second arc where Amy and Rory had sex in the TARDIS and somehow conceived a Time Lord, which makes no sense. Then there's Clara, who after a few adventures with the Doctor, decides to cast herself into the time stream to save the Doctor throughout his life. That story is over, so now they have to give her some kind of destiny with Danny Pink, which is leading up to another impossible plotline.

I think Tennant had the most on-point Doctor persona. Eccelston was rightly playing a Time War PTSD version of the Doctor and he didn't really have much time to develop. Smith seemed like a very old man trying to act like a very young man. You could see in The Day of the Doctor how Ten was obsessed with the Time War and Eleven acted like he didn't think about it anymore. Donna was my favorite companion because she was most like the classic companions where sexual tension was not a factor. She had kind of an adversarial relationship, but not one where she was more special than he was, at least most of the time. My original series Doctor is Jon Pertwee, who doesn't get nearly enough love in my opinion. Neither does Colin Baker, who I have become a big fan of retroactively.

Of all the inconsistencies in this episode, breaking the time lock on Gallifrey isn't high on the list. I accept the fact that some idiot turning off the safeties could allow the TARDIS to wind up on Gallifrey in the past. I have to assume, however, that the Daleks did not have this same capability. Going back to Utopia, it was established that the TARDIS can maintain time paradoxes, like the people of the end of time going back and changing the past and their own future. I think the Doctor would just never chose to go back on his own history because of what it could mean for him and why Clara ordered him not to look. That part I could also live with, although I doubt he will listen. He certainly didn't when Amy tried to make him leave in The Beast Below. Clara kind of messed with that, too by talking about fear making him kind.

Rose changed the timeline by bringing her father back to life. If we are to believe the alternate timeline, he would eventually create Earth's version of Cybermen because of it. Last season, they kind of established that if Gallifrey comes back, every evil race in the universe will target it at once, so it seems to be on hold for now. In some ways, this Doctor is the youngest of all, which seems to be the dichotomy Moffat was going for with a older man playing the Doctor. I think that may be why he's exploring one of his earliest nightmares, fear being everyone's companion. I'm still going to bet that the unexplained stuff (chalkboard, blanket boy) will come back to the Big Bad this season.

The problem with this episode is that it cheats so much of the established rules of the show just to present a (meet) cute idea. On a meta level, I'm glad they didn't try to create a new Weeping Angel or another Silence (which is a Weeping Angel reboot) and it is fun to think that maybe not every supposition from nothing is really something. I'm also wondering what that quote from the first doctor was. Captain Jack has also said in DW that he is aging ever so slowly, so it is safe to assume he will die of natural causes at some date before the end of the universe. Besides conflicting with Utopia, the first Earth time traveler was introduced in "Hide." I'm curious about the barn because I wonder if it was some kind of Galifray orphanage. You'd have to consider that the Doctor's mother was human (from the 8th Doctor movie) which would answer a lot of questions for me. Here's another fun question. Did Clara already go to the barn as Clara 2.0? It would explain how she could move the TARDIS through her own history.

The way reality shows focus on the stupid show crap and not actual human interaction is why I never liked Big Brother as much as the first season when they just let them interact. MAFS took about 40 days and compressed them into 10 hours. Then they crammed a bunch of filler in. I believe Jamie is thinking she and Doug can be the new Trista and Ryan, but maybe not at a conscious level. Then again, that's kind of like real life. If the people around you like the person you're with, it tends to inflate their stock.

Ratings for MAFS last night were good. It was an all time high for FYI (or the Biography Channel) at 900,000 viewers and about 500,000 in the key demo. If I'm not mistaken, those are the kind of numbers the CW does on some nights. http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/FYIs-MARRIED-AT-FIRST-SIGHT-Season-Finale-is-Most-Watched-Telecast-in-Network-History-20140910 Apparently, the reunion will also be 2 hours (expect more clips) and there's an "unveiled" special coming up with more unseen footage. I would not be surprised if there is a Jamie and Doug show in the future.