I honestly had similar thoughts about it, even before what came out about Gaiman, so I don’t think it’s just that. The “Sexy” stuff definitely would come across worse now though, however, I’ve not seen it since the Gaiman stuff came out.
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Last watch I did (shortly before the Gaiman stuff came out) I still loved a lot of it but definitely had all the same issues you did!
This was my review at the time, but on hindsight I’d probably knock it down to a 4 with how much of the running around the TARDIS there is.
EDIT: Note that when it aired it would have been an easy 5 star for me if I was rating things back then
EDIT EDIT: It was after… Wow my memory is bad and it’s been a long year…
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Yeah, I had it as 4.5 but knocked it down to 4. There was one part where Matt Smith was all sad and I suddenly saw the characterisation they ramped up to 11 in the Titan comics - which I hated!
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Actually they’re all solid and they’re all enjoyable.
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I’m putting up my reviews later, but Tsuranga is good fun with a gorgeous spaceship set. And the Pting! I’d love to cuddle with it!
Demons, however, is poetic art. I forgot how beautiful it is on a narrative level, on an acting level and on a production level. It actually moved me! So I’d say it’s the first 10/10 and 
of this marathon!
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Well, realistically, I doubt Michael Sheen would ever work with Gaiman again, so it probably has. Everything I read about Michael Sheen seems like he’s an absolutely lovely person, really…
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Got to get some editing work done on this book I’m ghostwriting today so putting s6 on as some background watching. I loveeee Eleven so much <3
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The newest PROBE case file.. 
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Lux.
If the TARDIS can’t drop BC back to May 24th, why can’t they go to May 23rd and have her live her life from there?
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Started watching The Three Doctors last night. It’s such a comfort watch story!
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Rewatched The Time Warrior. Such a fun story. Irongron is so over-the-top and absolutely hilarious to watch. Him bickering with Linx and Bloodaxe… I could watch that for hours. Sarah Jane gets a pretty strong first story as well, so that’s nice.
Only real problem I have is how Linx fails to properly subdue Rubeish and he can just wander around without any problem? Also towards the end when Rubeish unhypnotizes the scientists, who were practically dying of starvation just then, they are suddenly able to fake their work and walk around with no issue at all…
Those are nitpicks though. I enjoyed this one so much this time I bumped up my score from 8/10 to 9/10.
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I hadn’t considered that with Rubeish before. I’ve always thought it was just his poor eyesight made him not properly see the thing that was supposed to hypnotize him. And maybe in the presence of Linx he stays under the radar enough to not be noticed.
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Yes that explains why he wasn’t hypnotized, they basically say that in the episode. The fact that Linx doesn’t notice though, or try a different method, is what I take a slight issue with.
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Just did The Doctor’s Wife. An episode I have watched a thousand times, and one I still enjoy - I think the ending where Idris says hello to the Doctor is still one of the most beautiful scenes ever. And though I do like it a lot, I also have always thought the people who have put it on a pedestal as ‘best episode Everrr!!!’ are overrating it. It’s a good watch but not perfect
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Series 6 hating? Could NOT be me!! Good Man Goes to War HITS okay! It just does. I don’t care if it doesn’t 100% make sense, it gets me every time. Amy and the baby River at the end and also in the middle when she wants her dad to wish her happy birthday Vastra and Jenny 
the ‘I don’t know why you put up with me’ tongue moment 
Lorna Bucket truly an epic. I remember the exact way this made me feel in 2011 and I feel still the same now
And now I will watch Let’s Kill Hitler and I will enjoy that too!! Because it is NOT a bad episode and I will close my ears to haters
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2 parts down with Underworld, God bless the shitty CGI Caves
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The thing about watching series 6 all in a row like this is it really makes you aware of the Themes it has - specifically, it’s all about memory and identity. It’s there from the start with the Silence - if they can make you forget, and influence your actions, then how can you be sure how much of anything is your own decision? Your own autonomy?
Maybe this is clearest in the Flesh two-parter, because all the Gangers have the memories, beliefs, thoughts as their human counterparts, but there’s a resistance to seeing them as people. Why? (so the story asks) If it’s not memory of your experiences that makes you a person, what is?
But it’s there in every other episode too, with River and the manipulations of her life, with Amy and her life too - god, the baby stuff is so visceral, and how can she believe anything she knows about herself when she, her baby, her life, might not even be real? And in Night Terrors, the whole point of George is he’s not real, but by wanting him, his parents have given him an identity. Idris too; the TARDIS made flesh, with memory of the past and future.
This is exactly why I love the Moffat era. I love the way he plays with the Doctor’s identity, examining how the Doctor sees himself vs how the universe sees him, how helping one set of people can damage another. How his self-identity of wandering traveller gets people killed.
And yes, sometimes some of these explorations get messy and the story gets too twisted and silly and muddled, but if you’re willing to go along with it and dig into it a little, the Moffat era is full of such rich imagery and messages. It’s why I’ll be a series 7 defender forever too - does the execution flop? Yeah, in places. But the point is, through the whole Moffat tenure, that the Doctor is a figure who can help and harm, but who always, always wants to do good in the end.
Man I love Doctor Who!!!
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Oh, if there is ever a day I don’t weep at The Girl Who Waited… well, it’s not today. What an episode. 10/10 no notes
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My favourite 11 TV story, simply beautiful stuff. It’s definitely in my top 3 New Who stories too
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