Dr Who

[Valka]

Yep, it's like she stepped out of Season 4 of Downton Abbey.

[Buster's Uncle]

...She should be on Season 4 of Downton Abbey...

[Buster's Uncle]

Clara has a quality that harkens back to the Romannas - she dresses up very nicely, and the costume people are clearly having a very good time with that.  First companion of the revival for whom that's true, I think.

[Valka]

...She should be on Season 4 of Downton Abbey...

It's already been filmed and shown. Season 5 is coming up next year. It'd be hilarious if she did get a part in it, considering that "Harriet Jones, Prime Minister" has been a regular on Downton Abbey from the start.

I will agree that Clara is dressed nicely (most of the time). But she's still near the bottom of my Companion List.

I read in an interview with Lalla Ward that she often picked out her own costumes, and since she had interesting ideas, the costume department went along.

[Buster's Uncle]

I saw a lot of the first season -when it was good- but completely failed to spot PM Harriet Jones.

[Valka]

Matthew's mother. 

[Mylochka]

This may have been Clara's prettiest outfit thus far. I loved the beadwork.

I wasn't as wild about the episode though.  This is yet another in a series of weakly developed antagonists from this season. An interesting premise, but at the point where the creature was starting to get really intriguing, the Dr. wrapped things up in five seconds - speeding through an explanation of its motivations and history like an auctioneer on crack.  The writers seem to think that we viewers are going to be so wrapped up in the strain in Clara and the Dr.'s relationship that we'll forget that they're bit by bit developing a secret uber- villain over the course of the season.  Unless they've got something really, really shocking up their sleeve, instead of being surprised, I think I might be too bored to care at all by then.

It's a shame, really.  I like this new Dr.  I like Clara.  I just don't have any strong feeling about them as a "couple."  This story arc seems to depend on my being invested in them in sort of a quasi-romantic pairing (even though they've supplied Clara with a perfectly adequate boyfriend on the side) to keep my interest while they laboriously build up their "Big Bad" for this season...

[Mylochka]

There's even a music video for them...

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=978013732212654

[Valka]

What nuWho has missed is that the Doctor and his Companions are not supposed to be romantically linked. The closest Classic Who ever got to that was when Tom Baker and Lalla Ward were romantically linked in RL (married for a short time, actually) and it became obvious in some of their episodes (all that hand-holding in Paris in "City of Death"). And there's a great little scene in "State of Decay" in which the Doctor says to Romana: "Psst. You're wonderful."

As I said elsewhere, if I want to watch a soap opera in which the female lead lies to her boyfriend about spending time with another man, I'll watch General Hospital. There are four current storylines on that show where the female half of the relationship is blatantly lying to the male half of the relationship about another man.

[Buster's Uncle]

And Romanna was another Time Lord - River (gag) Song just as well have been.  I suspect Rose was a special case, too, after she'd absorbed the time vortex.

I suspect all others are not much more than pets.

[Valka]

Well, K-9 was a pet. 

[Buster's Uncle]

We look like Time Lords -and even have potential for a lot of the same powers, exposed to enough time energy- but I imagine we're rather like apes to them.

And who doesn't like monkeys?  They're adorable and funny.  But who does want to date a monkey?

[Valka]

Considering our very short lifespans and different internal anatomy, we're really not that much like Gallifreyans.

As Susan matured, she probably had a lot of frustrations dealing with being left behind on Earth in a post-war zone. Imagine how the other humans would have treated her when they began to notice the years going by and she wasn't aging.

[Buster's Uncle]

Story idea.

-Susan, like the Master, was always a problem with the idea of all the Time Lords being wiped out.  Kill 'em all -whatever- but not Susan.

[Geo]

But who does want to date a monkey?

Why don't you ask Fossey?