"Fear Her" was terrible but no more or less than many of the other terrible shows in the new series. I'm a longtime Whovian (started watching in the early to mid-'80s, when I first became of aware of the show) and the quality of the individual stories has always been highly variable. If you got past that one, the two-parter that closed out Series 2 was fantastic and one of the more-restrained of the series finales that we got with the new Who. Both Davies and Moffat have a tendency to go batshit-crazy when it comes to writing finales and we end up with some weird and sometimes nonsensical tales, some of which just work because the characters and the actors hold it together and some of which tend to collapse under their own weight. The Series 3 finale was abominable for any number of reasons which I won't spoil for anyone who hasn't seen it (but don't watch it--really, don't). However you can forgive all of Series 3's shortcomings if you just watch "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood" (and Moffat's second offering in the show, "Blink," is also quite good). Series 4 is generally more consistently not-terrible, with "Silence in the Library"/"The Forest of the Dead" being the standout story. Tennant's (not quite) last appearance in "The End of Time" is also one of those things that has its moments but is best not dwelt-upon overlong. Series 5 is quite good until you see the appearance of Moffat's new brand of excess in the Pandorica story. Series 6 returns to the general uneven quality that marked many past series, but Moffat's first Christmas special, "A Christmas Carol," is brilliant. Series 7 is once again a mixed bag, with "The Power of Three" being the only standout in the first part, but the second part making amends with several terrific episodes, including "The Bells of Saint John", "Cold War", "Hide", and "Nightmare in Silver." The 50th anniversary stuff, sadly, was a bit of a mess, and "The Time of the Doctor," Smith's swan-song, even more so. You're actually much better off just listening to
"The Light at the End" because it's much less rubbish than what the Beeb put together.
If it's any consolation, Rose's departure changes the Doctor's relationship with his future companions significantly. What you're referring to was actually deliberate because it was intended to show the effect that she was having on him.
This may be true to some extent, but a lot of this genuinely is the Doctor Who factor. I won't BTA a lot of ebook bundles, but for Doctor Who stuff, I absolutely will. And many Whovians feel that way. When Storybundle had a Who bundle, I BTA'd that one but I haven't BTA'd any of the actual Humble ebook bundles because they were generally >$10 and that kind of $$ for books I may or may not read is crazy talk.
Humble and Groupees have just gone in the crapper at this point. I have no other explanation for these. These things are sucktacular.
If I wanted to pay <40% off MSRP on a game, I could just buy it off the store. I'd have to be an idiot to buy this "bundle" for The Banner Saga, when it will inevitably be at least 50% off during the Spring or Summer sales and probably at least 66% by the Winter sale.
Er, yeah. When even platformer paladin MNS dumps on a bundle of platformers, you know it's time to pack it in. It really probably wouldn't be so bad if most of these weren't repeats from other bundles. At least bundle together a bunch of new crappy games like Indie Royale!
What can I say?
I feel like this guy:
when he found out his sister hadn't really been kidnapped by aliens.
I wanted to believe.
Now,
are the mods? I keep reporting off topic crap but nothing happens.
