This episode will be a clean dividing line between literary nerds and science nerds.

The casual racism towards Mexico was a stitch. At first you're like, ok, fine future Mexico has a space program, and apparently they went to the moon before any other country sent any woman as an astronaut(?), that's cool. And then you get inside the shuttle and there's this brightly colored poncho just sitting on a…

Interesting episode based on the craziest fucking premise. Best use of a quarry in Doctor Who history. And it's about time Clara and the Doctor finally came to blows. Is this what it was like when the Sixth Doctor almost torpedoed the whole franchise? Clara should kick his crotchety ass out into deep space and keep…

Not harsh at all. The show is a tonal wreck.

Well, you're the audience the network is trying to reach.

If not for the imprisoned ghost wife and the undead demon son of the apocalypse (now that's some baggage for you), Abbie should just be all over that shit.

The whole idea of Batman is flawed.

Bad flashbacks to the Amazing Spider-Man with yet another strange "reimagining" of a too familiar origin story. I don't love the idea of a professional hit, even as a false lead, and the slow motion "I'm gonna kill you, eh, no I won't" had me rolling my eyes. I'm also not on board with turning Gordon into another…

Don't know about that. She thinks she can't have intimacy because her powers get in the way. That's 100% Rogue. It's not like the other person is shapeshifting into her. You can bullshit about losing oneself in the other person as a metaphor for relationships or going the other way and not being able to ever put your…

Neither of which actually saved the day, which was not-so-secretly the point. They were actually undercutting and having fun with the original "save the day" monologue from the debut episode (and probably making for good trailer material).

You really think I called it a "bad score" and "campy as hell" because it was just too loud? You're either autistic or deflecting. Maybe both.

"In fact, Doctor Who should now only use completely original ideas."

You're right, I'm also clearly only talking about audible volume and not any other quality of music. Because Spinal Tap was also only referring to the literal setting of their amp in the movie, and not any additional metaphorical meaning.

I think there was an old comic book back in the day about mutants? The Z-Men or something like that?

You're right, he actually wrote a score of astounding subtlety and joy and beauty and it got ruined in the editing process.

Fine episode. Bad score. The soundtrack has been a little off all season, but this time it was inexplicably decided every single moment had to be cranked all the way up to eleven. Campy as hell.

There was no monster in the one with the Dream Lord. They were all just high on space pollen.

If the guy says he's mentally ill, I'm inclined to agree with him. Seems to check out. Maybe the rest of you should just disengage?

Parents have been telling their kids to be brave and do good in the world for a hundred thousand years.

So Clara is now effectively the Doctor's surrogate mother? In addition to his temporal guardian angel. She's racking up quite the complex legacy, yet I don't really see where it goes from here? Seems like she's been giving quite a lot just to get constantly shit on…but yeah, maybe that's the parent-child relationship…