it got somewhat better later on
let's face it, it's a show for slash fic writers - you get all these touchy-feely hunky knights to play with, and only two *interesting* female characters have sis yay! vibe going on
i watch for Colin Morgan's adorkability, Anthony "Giles" Head and Morgause - not necessarily in that order

that doesn't mean they don't have sex, just that they don't use it for producing babies

The Mind Robber one.

these references to old Who are like Easter Eggs that today's young viewers get to notice and appreciate a few years intro the future. Right now they get hooked in by monsters.

also the ruse wouldn't have worked, because flesh would have responded differently to being shot by the energy blast - maybe melting right there, or getting singed in some spectacularly non-meaty way that would reveal it not being a "genuine article".

Messed up London might have supposed to evoke the sense of "no good can come out of messing with time", but hell, i'd want to live there!

he installed a bunch of new apps, is all

so

DELETE THESE PEASANTS!

WANT!

nu who kinda established that this is what cybermen do, tho.
there was the one in the cellar at lumic's who fried when got her free will back, and in the one with cyber-mecha they had a cyber-controller with too strong will shorting out the whole network
looks like the default method of dispatching cybermen in the new…

creepy, but could happen
of course we know river died, as river, in the library
but she still might be downloaded into a new body at some point
and for somebody with her temperament, being stuck in a rather limited VR, playing house…
brrr
don't want to imagine the meltdown

oh i like this!

10 mopped
i suspect 11 went looking for answers. it is hard to imagine all the montage we've seen in the preview happens on the lake day. most of it must be flashbacks of Doctor finding out why he has to die - just like he said to the wiking. And since he probably upset a lot of plans and interrupted a lot of plots…

chess - the black and white guardians?

loved the app, too
but wasn't there a reference to apps before?
damn, i never remember these things! just like I could swear that the word "teselecta" was used before, but I don't have time to hunt down the whens and whys.
arrrhg!

There are plenty of celebrities who are doing something else and go on to design their own fragrance. The callback name and tagline of the perfume suggests this, rather than just Amy being a "face of [insert brand]". So you can imagine her doing anything, really. as long as it would make her vaguely "celebish". Notice…

I want Bitey! Where can I buy one?
Also, Hello Vicki! *waves*

I'm reading my way trough TARDIS Eruditorum right now, specifically trough the "Myth Makers>>Daleks Master Plan>>Massacre" sequence, so I had freshly in mind what Philip Sandifer had to say on the "Doctor's fallibility theme" and the technique of sucker-punching the viewer.
Now I had been seeing some parallels in…

Oh, I laughed so hard during that scene!
Besides plenty of Star Wars riffs throughout the series, they've done a couple of Star Trek ones as well, esp. in the X-mas Special and the crew of the "Dave" in LKH. I wonder if it is because of a bigger american audience?
This one was pure gold, tho.