goes on to be fantastic. And so will Donna. The Doctor didn't give her anything she didn't already have.

That's true. I just don't want to see her starting over again.

And I'm not sure that a third try will make for a less self sacrificing ending. Her name sort of says it.

Donna's Agatha Christie showing up at the hotel, no memory of giant wasps and murders and a man from outer space....Agatha Christie goes on to be fantastic. And so will Donna. The Doctor didn't give her anything she didn't already have.

And because of Jacob's "recap" and your post, victor, The Unicorn and the Wasp just skyrocketed from being fun and silly to freaking brilliant.

And because of Jacob's "recap" and your post, victor, The Unicorn and the Wasp just skyrocketed from being fun and silly to freaking brilliant.

Yeah, it's amazing how important The Unicorn and the Wasp and The Doctor's Daughter are to understanding this season.

I have to disagree with the dude that said RTD was only making a product with his stories. There's serious stuff in his stories, it's arcy, it makes you question your beliefs, it's thinky. Yeah, some episodes can be blah or have their issues, but over the course of the season I find his stuff as good as anything Joss put out in Buffy, and that's kinda my gold standard (and even Joss didn't always get it right.)

*sits with Sail*

Sure, very sometimes the shows are rubbish, and I'll complain forever about making this last ep his swan song instead of making just a good finale for the season, but I never once thought he was catering to sponsors and action figures or something with shallow mass-market potential.

I think there is a lot of good storytelling in Dr. Who. There episode i don't rewatch. Either too many of my buttons ( weeping angles just creeps me way to badly lost in another time/ mobile intimate objects/messages from the past from someone you know now ...eeeehh), or the basic story only interests me in where it took the arc.

I wish I could read Jacob's review as a single tract. I see no way to "print" it. I don't like reading three paragraphs, wait to load, three paragraphs, wait to load, for 21 pages.

Wow, this episode broke me, even being spoiled like a bottle of milk left in a sauna for a week.

However, on the most mundane level, I swear someone or ones said that Jack gave Sarah Jane a roll in the hay. Was that cut by Skiffy, and, if so, where can I sign up to lodge an agism protest. Because the idea makes me awfully happy.

On a less mundane note, I think the Doctor might have wiped everything from Donna more because he wanted to leave her NOT being a part of any army. IOW, she won't be throwing herself into the next world threatening crisis (he hopes - I suspect she would).

I wish I could read Jacob's review as a single tract. I see no way to "print" it. I don't like reading three paragraphs, wait to load, three paragraphs, wait to load, for 21 pages.

Daniel, do what I do in these cases--open up a new Word doc, copy and paste each page of Jacob's post into it without reading, and then print the whole thing. I do it all the time, and it makes long multi-page docs a breeze to read.

IOW, she won't be throwing herself into the next world threatening crisis (he hopes - I suspect she would).

Remember how she went running to see what was up in her standalone ep, when she saw the dead Doctor being taken away? All her friends were yelling at her to forget it, and she had to see. I know she'll get herself tied up in solving some major Earth crisis eventually, even without memories of her time with the Doctor.

Daniel, do what I do in these cases--open up a new Word doc, copy and paste each page of Jacob's post into it without reading, and then print the whole thing. I do it all the time, and it makes long multi-page docs a breeze to read.

I do that all the time, but 21 pages is quite the copy-paste-athon.