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Yeah, but why has it been changed at all? I know an A+ is rare, but it isn't, like, prohibited.

Aaaand it's now an A. Why did it change?

It's weird Kanye didn't seem to realise that he'd already said all he says on New Slaves years before with this song, and with a lot more tact.

My whiiiife!

These are all fine reccomendations. I started with Time Bobby (#150), but really any of the Paul F Tompkins episodes are amazing. Specially love the one with him and Ben Schwartz where he's playing Werner Herzog… it reaches amazing heights.

Love this guy. Most recent Bang Bang TV ep was amazing. Keep up the good work, Hot Saucerman.

Do wish more book adaptations were so interesting, capturing a book's atmosphere while still being its own thing. They always seem to be either very loosely based or exact copies.

Maybe the only film he's ever seen all the way through is Maximum Overdrive.

Gordon is quite the butthat, though.

The video is, against all odds, quite unironically sexy. Well done, all. The video for "Booty", on the other hand, is just kind of ugly and in your face. There's no subtlety to it, no art, I tells ya!

The Rani basically is a female Master, just less outright insane. I don't really see how Missy being The Rani would improve anything story-wise. Guarantee we will get The Rani one day, anyway, especially since Gallifrey's full-fledged return is surely imminent.

Fair enough. This is just the way it is right now, if you don't like it, don't watch it. Plenty of other shows on right now that are far better than this one - Doctor Who is just such a HUGE thing, nowadays more than ever, and everyone has some experience with it, and there's such a rich mythology that they can never

It's not like she's an intergalactic space pirate one minute and an 18th Century clown-themed vigilante the next. She's always basically Clara, but there are always going to be inconsistencies because of the constant flow of new writers and the fact that this show has proven, time and time again, that it cares far

Same as the majority of TV, then. She can be both, because she's written by so many different people. I think Coleman does a pretty good job of selling Clara's behaviour each week, though. She makes moments like this episode's freakout seem less silly than they really are, which is all one could ask for, really.

I agree it's contrived and makes little sense when you think about it. But Clara isn't a "psychopath", she's just a TV character who was written dumb in this episode. The characters of Doctor Who will never match up to real life. They aren't even trying to get that close to real life. It's a soap opera. Don't worry

In the first Neil Gaiman-scripted ep, The Corsair (a Time Lord invented for that episode) is said to have been male and female at various points in his/her life. This is obviously more significant though as we never met The Corsair and it was basically a throwaway line, but that was the only onscreen precedent I can

Yeah, it's basically the only possible twist they would have done (none of the show's young fanbase will know who Romana or the Rani are), but I don't really think enough about the show to have guessed it alone. Was still a good geek out moment, but man, it could have been a GREAT geek out moment…

I was just thinking, I hope to God they don't kill Gomez's Master off next episode. Keep her! Forever!

Man, it is kinda depressing to me that so many of you had guessed the big twist as far back ago as episode ONE of this season. Maybe I should stop reading these comments. You bastards are too damn slick! I could have enjoyed this twist.

Very recently, Diesel either Tweeted or Facebooked (I forget which) something deliberately cryptic about the Inhumans, so my prevailing theory is that he will play Black Bolt. Physically he'd be perfect, and it'd be just like Marvel to have one actor for two roles, one where he's just a voice, one where he never