illogicology

I suppose you could argue that in Season 2 the Doctor was actually kissing Cassandra... Still, I don't think you could say Moffat's moving the show away from that, I mean River's companion status might be dubious but it's still very much "The Doctor kisses a running character."

Yeah, that one caught me.

I feel like they've basically done that in nearly every episode this series. He promises Amy he'll be back in five minutes, he fails. He nearly kills the star whale when he really should have noticed. He pushes and pushes at the daleks to find out what they want and basically kicks off a new dalek empire by not keeping his mouth shut. He makes the big mistake with the angels in the maze of the dead. Vampires in venice, he lets Amy go into the school and fails to save the last of an alien race. I don't have one for Amy's choice yet but i'll think of one. It seems that this Doctor has a way of making things worse before making them better, he's a lot more fallible and I love it; it's a real contrast to his older, wiser view of himself.

One of my favourites, definitely my favourite non-moffat of the series. also, fed up of the nutters on gallifrey base with their 20 page thread in which the same five people attack the silurian design for not being really silurian enough.

I enjoyed, in fact I enjoyed it a lot, but I think it had issues. I think the split narrative gave it pacing problems early on, that got a lot better as the episode went on but I found the first 15 minutes hard to connect with. I wasn't having trouble following it or anything, just having trouble getting invested. I also thought the ending was a bit of an anti-climax and not as clever as Nye seemed to think it was. However, it was a lot of fun for most of the time an a definite improvement on last week.

I thought it was the most Doctor Who-by-numbers episode I've ever seen. Nothing actively bothered me like Victory of the Daleks but nothing excelled for me. I doubt I'll really watch it again.

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Well it wasn't up to the standards of last week's but I think all in all it's been the strongest two-parter since The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances.

She also asks Tennant if they've don't the crash of the Byzantium yet. Clearly he hasn't; A: She was there and it was the Eleventh Doctor she met and B: she'd established it's early days for him and therefore a younger face not an older one.

woo, so much awesome.

teehee... poor JNT. He wasn't that bad but I find it hard to separate him from question mark lapels.

I agree, I didn't love it.

I'm almost positive it was written as a two parter and then hacked down.

Interesting article here http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=eye_tv&issue=1260 My favourite bit

eh... not sure.

Check out the two "stripped for action" documentaries on the Dalek War set, there's one concerning the Third Doctor comics from the time and one about Terry Nation's own Dalek comics and both are really fascinating viewing.

I was totally wrong about DWM, I remembered reading it on the BBC website and tracked down the link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/inferno/detail.shtml edit: it's in a section handily labelled "myths"

If it's in Lett's biography then I'm probably way off. (and heartily apologise for over-zealous correction if I am) I know it's an often repeated fact that then I read in something (I want to say Doctor Who Magazine) was a myth, since they found Houghton's outline but I think DWM is more likely to be mistaken than Letts.

I love Inferno, just to be a pain in the ass though, the parallel universe plot element being added later is a myth. It was there in Houghton's original outline; the monsters on the other hand weren't. Otherwise, awesome episode as always.

I believe so. It looks a lot like the skull of the female looking reptile from the first trailer and I'm pretty sure they're silurians. While they don't have the same face as the old silurians (no kissy lips) I think humanoid reptiles with three defined ridges on the top of the head is too coincidental.

Yes, it runs with Alice in Wonderland at the moment. I think there are some worthwhile bits of info to be found there, for one thing I assume that's what the time vortex is going to look like now. The music was also a very different feel to what you'd get in the last five years.

New trailer can be viewed here I quite liked it.

I would imagine a good Doctor Who game being largely similar to Mass Effect. Start of with an unseen Doctor getting killed, cut to character creation screen where you design your own regeneration and then off to the TARDIS. Then a story picks up that takes you from planet to planet, picking up various companions with various skills. Gameplay variation via your sonic screwdriver, used to hack doors, disable enemies with an electronic element and usual gaming techy stuff. I'd buy it.

Yeah, the extra features on the specials haven't been that great. I've got the Planet of the Dead blu-ray and the only extra is that episode's Doctor Who Confidential... pretty sure it's the edited one too.