Like roll one up.

Of all the words for "attractive," you had to land at "comely"? Given the subject matter that's A LITTLE STRANGE.

So the skyping is mostly an exposition-delivery device; I can buy that. I'd been figuring, though, that it was a way of getting both characters to share scenes without having to resort to (awkward; constraining) body doubles or (expensive) effects. If not for that, Cosima could have done her research in a more…

Vic and his severed finger could team up!

The white-chick dreadlocks plus hipster glasses make for a really great look (somehow). I gotta vote Cosima, even though those yoga pants were (in a past episode) amazing.

When she mentioned she was getting odd backup, I thought it would be Vic (Helena makes more sense).

Thanks so much! While watching, I had assumed she was passing him some sort of blade to help him cut himself loose, but then that never happened.

Could you explain the coat thing, please?

:)

It just struck me as an economical way to bring together a few (mostly unwelcome, mind you) things: the non-Platonic stuff we have been getting more of; the show's tendency to bring River back at the slightest pretext (I did see the previews for the finale); the mystery of Clara's identity. The Doctor's marital status…

Heh. Well-said on all counts. Thanks!

I have to think their presence must have been motivated by outside-the-narrative reasons, e.g., viewership demographics.

Man, with the exact same "ingredients," a really cool season would be very doable. I dunno why we got such a degree of aimlessness. I enjoyed every part, but faced now with the fact that we are *at the end*, it just seems lacking in actual content, in retrospect.

That dress *was* awesome.

He can't come back a millisecond after he left?

Got a sandwich for his trouble, at least.

Maybe it's Cyberman!Doctor talking. Dunno. It rubbed me the wrong way as well.

I worry that, to clear the decks for the Doctor guiltlessly romancing her, she will be revealed as a reincarnation of River Song.

And most of her eyebrows are too long!

It was *so* self-serious that I thought it would be revealed, ultimately, as tongue-in-cheek. But no. WAY, WAY, WAY too "Let me just tell you what I'm feeling and thinking."