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Honestly, for such a shaky story arc this was a pretty dang good conclusion. The trailers threatened another overstuffed mess like Moffat's last two episodes but everything turned out to fit together. I loved the Teselecta reveal. When they first turned up in the episode the idea that they'd...

Ah, that's more like it. There were points where I was worried that it'd write itself into a corner, but by the end it was a satisfying treatment of a tricky idea. More like this, please! The director kind of lost the plot during that fight scene, though. (Thought: was the otherwise...

And the Soulless guys or whatever they were called were rather heavily emphasised in the trailers, considering that they turned out to be a big-lipped alligator moment. Bit late, but yeah

Well, it was a Mark Gatiss episode. By now I've learnt that that means an okay idea, okay execution, enjoyable experience, but with an ultimate feeling of "right then - what's the main course?" To be fair it's probably his most solid episode, with no clunky bits like Unquiet Dead's cop-out...

Most of the press reviews have been positive, but here's one which is closer to my own opinion: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/neilmccormick/100055733/doctor-who-theyre-making-it-up-as-they-go-along/ The story arcs in new Who have always been plot-twist-upon-plot-twist with little in...

Somewhat OT, but... has anyone seen the Q&A section on the Doctor Who Wikia? http://drwho.answers.wikia.com/wiki/Special:WikiActivity Some of the questions: "Why didnt the doctor detox in lets kill hitler" "HoW did the doctor Survive the time war" "Is he a philnathnrofprofisnt?" "I have...

I think a lot of the documentaries shown on Channel 4 in the UK (originally meant to be "alternative", slowly degraded into "bottom-feeding" qualify. They had one a few years ago called "101 Things Removed from the Human Body". I didn't watch the whole thing (which was, thankfully, a one-off...

Hmm, bit of a mix. I think it suffered from the same problem as Good Man Goes to War - too much emphasis on furthering the story arc, not enough on constructing a satisfying episode that stands on its own merits. However... I enjoyed it a little more. I liked the idea of the history police...

On the whole I've been enjoying it. The main problem, so far, is that it's been rather padded; I'm not sure it needs ten hours of running time. It's clearly a different beast to the tightly-paced and assured Children of Earth. I'm a tad disappointed that, after the moral ambiguity of that...

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/transformers-dark-of-the-moon-20110629 cool story bro

I'm having more trouble coming up with a non-pervy explanation as to how she knew Amy had conceived in the first place. Eew.

Winsor McCay's Sinking of the Lusitania is probably the most famous one.

Honestly, I never like to kick up too much of a stink in these threads, but... let-down, really. A lot of fight scenes between characters we barely know and an incredibly thin plot underpinning it all. We know very little more about the eyepatch lady's motivations. A few new characters have...

The general implication from the last episode was that gangers, when functioning correctly, don't have their own minds, just the minds of the originals projected into them; the Amy ganger was just a remote-controlled body and so disposing of her would just return her mind to the original body...

It's actually a pretty recently-skewed list in general - only four cartoons from before the nineties. (fiveifyouwanttobereallypickyandcountthesimpsonsasapreninetiesseries) Kind of interesting that they picked Cowboy Bebop for the one foreign cartoon, as opposed to more obvious nostalgia hits...

Bit of a hodge-podge. Interesting idea at the core, emotional scenes that got rather too gooey, and a bit of a cop-out ending (the debate was resolved... after half the people involved died. That's what you call a happy ending, Doctor?) Not too bad, but with only one episode left of this...

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Yeah, bit of a Silurian do-over, but otherwise not too bad at all so far. I found the idea of creating disposable remote-controlled clones for manual labour interesting, but the episode looked as though it was about to throw the idea away on an "...and then it went wrong and turned into a...

Pretty dang good. The series has produced mixed results when it's tried its hand at comedy episodes (as, I believe, this one ultimately was) so it's good to see a clear slam-dunk.

I'll give the episode props for one thing, though: while the revelation that the monster turned out to be abandoned technology just doing its job is a tad overfamiliar by now (we saw it in Moffat's first two stories), this is the first time the series has attemped a quasi-scientific explanation...

Hmm, so-so. Some good ideas, some weaknesses; nothing too offensive, nothing too memorable. On the whole it was an okay but somewhat derivative debut from a new writer. And the writers really should stop killing Rory.

Definite improvement on last week. Slickly put together (is it me, or has the direction suddenly become a whole lot flahier?) and an all-round promising lead-in to the season. The defeat of the Silence doesn't stand up to close inspection, but since they'll presumably be back (we still don't...

Hmm, wouldn't say I feel the same way. Amy's pregnancy seemed like a reasonable continuationn of her character arc last season - before she had an impending marriage, now she's got an impending childbirth; at worst it's just a bit of a retread. I've already mentioned my reservations about how...

Yeah, let's use this one. It left me going "er, hmm", as most of the season openers have, but for a rather different reason. Bit of a shock to the system having one of Moffat's more puzzle-oriented stories - well, half of one, anyway - right at the start of a series. Interesting thoughts here...

Well that didn't work

Doctor Who Series 2 "The Impossible Astronaut" By Steven Moffat 6:00pm, BBC One and BBC HD The Doctor sends messages throughout history to his friends. But when they meet up in Utah in 1969, an astronaut comes out of a lake and things start to go wrong. They then meet Richard Nixon.

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America: Japan: Britain: France: They all look pretty varied to me.

Anyone want to place any bets on which of those clips was from Neil Gaiman's episode? I'm guessin that the were his.

The most inventive of the christmas specials, that's for sure. Sagged a bit in the middle though - back in the RTD period Moffat's stories were always the most tightly-plotted, but he's shown that he can really meander when he's given a long enough running time. So in parts I was left staring...

*squints* The black object seems to be moving a little too much, I think it's the shadow of her hand.

I dunno, the term "short movie" turns up quite a few hits on Google.

You can see one of the earliest strips here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/gallery/comicsbritannia/8 I think a 1950s version of Beavis and Butthead is a fair assessment, although it'd be misleading to say that the strip was ever as raunchy as B&B. I don't know whether it was intentional or not...

Elmo's wearing far less than she is, the dirty todger.

The public's gettin' its money's worth, that's what!

See, I'd honestly have to say that this: ...works for me far better than this: The former may have simpler drawings, but it also squeezes in quite a bit more character.