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Yeah, from my own comment from a week ago. That's what the link is, genius…

It was the out-of-nowhere shot in the arm this show needed and hasn't had since the little girl regenerated at the end of the Impossible Astronaut story.

The problem is that reviewers on this site operate on fanboy grading scales, where a B- is just as good as an F. They have no way of properly categorizing mediocrity without riling up the consumers of their product.

I'm not sure what to do with this.

@Nathan Ford's Evil Twin

It's a good thing that it would be impossible to film properly because otherwise this show would totally have two of the clones do each other.

Time can be rewritten.

So now that Clara is the uber-companion (in a resolution that I'm pretty sure doesn't actually make any sense, if the Doctor pulls her back out right away, when did she ever fracture to, um, defeat the Great Intelligence? Man, time gets rewritten like over and over and over again all in the row there, huh?), does that

Clara is just…Clara. Surprise surprise. Looks like there's some Crisis on Infinite Earths thing going on where an infinite Claras (or whatever) go back in time to save the Doctor over and over again. Including back to Pertwee/Troughton early days episodes by the throwback video quality and 70s clothes.

I think I said in the non-spoiler side that it was fine and good for the first 90 minutes. It tried to be more of a "big ideas" (that weren't all that big, but whatever) counterterror movie. The psych-double psych-triple psych game with Pike and Kirk and Spock getting them on and off and then back on the Enterprise

His hobo beard somewhat compromised the melancholic tone they were going for, though.

"Oh my god, Dwight's kind of my friend?!"

You are gonna be one sad panda four years from now when the new director invariably ends up just doing a big shoot 'em up war movie with Klingons instead.

Wrath of Khan is an occasionally cheesy and mostly somber and sedate movie that became iconic precisely for its ending. Spock dying is the movie.

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

He's such a bratty little monster. I can't believe there are still one and a half more seasons of this. Time to wrap it up.

I'm pretty sure it was a Seinfeld joke, actually, involving Kramer. But now that I think about it, it could have been Phoebe on Friends.

The answering machine was the funniest thing they've done in months.

So you have one, count 'em one, counterexample…plus a show that hasn't been on the air in years.

They're killing it. No drama that isn't NCIS works in the 8/7c timeslot. This seems a tacit admission that they know the show is worthless without its lead-in and are already moving on.