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Wow... really? You really cannot compare the Animated Series' masterful Two-Face with Jones' over the top wanna-be Joker Two-Face.

So, did they ever watch the Animated Series?

Also, they didn't include Arnold's Mr Freeze? Or maybe they felt it captured the essence of the Animated Series' Mr. Freeze perfectly? *rolls eyes*

The problem is, Doctor Who is old.

If you're willing to look past it's old 1960's TV style then you will find some real gems in there.

I'm wondering if "A good man" actually refers to Rory... the Doctor specifically said that he wasn't a good man, that's why he needs so many rules.
That would make River saying that she killed a good man, the best man she ever knew, take on a new twist... it might also explain her shock and surprise when she saw Rory in the prison, because maybe the last time she saw him, she killed him.

Just a thought.

I don't get the hate for Rory, he's been one of my favourite non-Doctor characters.

The 8th seemed like a "romantic" (as in the movement, not that he liked romance).

I blame my years of frequenting US boards!

Actually, he's basing a lot of his quirks off of the Second Doctor, Troughton. If you ever watch the Second Doctor you'll notice quite a few similarities, including some of the costume, like suspenders and bow tie. The cosmic hobo, the clown, the trickster.

That's funny, because that's what I get from Smith, and in fact one of THE major reasons I like him so much, he's playing an old man, the way he talks and walks and the way he looks at people all tell me this guy is old.

"Oh dear, dear, dear. How very disturbing."

Ah, my mistake.

Also, you do not need need to refute "my" rumours, I never said I believed them. I'm only saying that there's so much stuff out there it's impossible to know what is and isn't true.
Especially since not all of us have the fortune to speak directly to people involved in the show (and not even what they say can be taken as fact).

These are not "rumors" these are statements in various mediums (especialy cons, but not limited to them, facebook and twitter are often places where venting gets done) directly from people who work with him that they dislike him for those reasons (some even made directly to ME and an associate at Chicago TARDIS this year). Add to that that if you plug yourself into the writers (not to difficult if you have facebook and twitter and a bit of charisma though having done some writing definately helps), they're even more likely to slag him for those same reasons and a few extras specific to them.

Of course, the Beeb said back when Tennent had his special that they were thinking of continuing that trend, have a few series then a break with just specials and so on. If next year is just a few specials with a full series returning in 2013 then that will be in line with what they've already said.

No, no you don't.
Results are: Lots of viewers. Critical praise. Viewer appreciation. Money.
Results do not mean something is good, but then I never said that. Moff just needs results and he's getting them.

Funny, the way I hear it is that both are inept and can't schedule or budget for anything, meaning Moff had to cover them with a "split season" idea.

I think it's best if we all are very careful about accepting rumours as fact.

At the end of the day it's the result that counts and this first half-season has been some of the best Doctor Who of all time.

Yeah, this I think. The blades are an atom thick, they literally ARE 2D!

I think Film Brain's maturing, some of his newer stuff has real venom behind it. If you haven't watched his 2012 reviews then you might want too, he seemed genuinely insulted by that film.

I will agree though that "fake anger" is one of the biggest problems. The thing is, AVGN, NC and Yahtzee do it so well, everyone thinks they've got to do it.

Right now I expect it costs more energy to make the stuff than we'd get out of it.

There's also the fact that the things they are doing are happening all the time just about everywhere in nature, they're just recreating it in an observable form.

Time Lords can be killed, if something kills them, they can't regenerate.

And as we've already pointed out, it was specifically said in the episode that what River did would have killed the Doctor.