"Rings of Akhenaten" was a little bombastic, but I liked it quite a bit. I was taken aback to hear Radio Free Skaro was 2:1 against.

It was pretty cool. The climax owes much to Smith's amazing acting.

I loved the shit out of 'Cold War'.

It was alright. Much better pacing than last week's. I thought that the Cold War subtext was a little heavy-handed at times, but overall it worked.

I really liked David Warner in the episode, it was great to see him again.

A small goof: the proper translation of "meters" into Russian is "метры", not "метерс" (the latter is just a transliteration into Cyrillic).

EDIT: Oh, it's a trope.

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David Warner played an alternate Third Doctor in a Big Finish Audio called 'Sympathy For The Devil' with a young actor named Tennant.

He also played Jack The Ripper and stole H.G. Welles time machine in 'Time After Time' and along with Bill Nighy was one of the names thrown about for an older Doctor. Russell T Davies said in a radio interview something along the lines of "The show has so much more action if we'd gone with an older Doctor I'd have killed David Warner with all the running"

Oh and this one time he was president of the klingons...

"Hide" was pretty good.
Although, I was expecting to hear a bit more about Clara than revealed.

Looking forward to next week indeed.

This season? Define THIS SEASON.

1. Asylum of the Daleks: Not bad, not great.
2. Dinosaurs on a spaceship: uhm...
3. A Town called Mercy: Yeah, that was about as good as any spaghetti western. With aliens.
4. The Power of Three: Not nearly as good as I thought it would be. Rather boring, really.
5. The Angels Take Manhattan: ENOUGH WITH THAT DAMN RIVER SONG ALREADY! But yeah, heartbreaking end.
- The Snowmen: Actually quite good, I'll give you that one.
6. Bells of St. John: Clever title. Saw it coming. Not a good episode. Just sets up Clara as a clever girl without her being actually clever.
7. The Rings of Akhaten: Great end speech. Horrible episode, really. I know I said I enjoyed it, but the plot holes just keep getting to me.
8. Cold War: Fun seeing Ice Warriors, not so much fun else.
9. Hide: Really damn good.

In short: not the weakest season yet(season 6, sans The Doctor's Wife) was horrible, but they've got a lot to do to make it good.

Also, fire Smith.

Just cause you don't agree with me is no reason to get hostile. Also this season = everything that happened after the show wasn't on the air for like 6 months and then everything changed...so you know, how a season is usually defined, so 6-9

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Never meant to be hostile, folks, relax.
I'm just not happy with the way Smith and Moffat are running things. Never quite have been.

BDA: you won't get this one. Series 7 is from 1-13, not 6-13

Doc: I just don't like his goofy, sometimes too stupid Doctor. I'll agree he does a stellar performance, but the character doesn't do it for me with him behind it.

Also, Doctor Who is a show about change - It's time to change the Doctor.

I haven't really weighed in here, since haven't been able to get in to Smith as much as Eccelston or Tennant, but despite my desire for a happy ending, DW is one of the few times that I enjoy the darker tone. So, having Eccelston being more serious and Tennant becoming more serious worked for me.

Besides, we've already established that Tom is crazy but harmless