Ha, really? I figured they just chose the name "Idris" because it sounds like "TARDIS".

This episode wasn't written by Moff. Neil somebody. Tip of my tongue.

I suspected that was the 10th Doctor's control room, but frankly it was hard to tell. I honestly wish they'd used the very first control room from 1963, but they probably don't have the set and didn't want to build it just for this episode.

There's no way Rory's fake death in this episode wasn't intended as a wink by Gaiman, to go along with the dozens of other winks I noticed, and probably hundreds I didn't.

I think the reason this episode is a little disjointed…
…is the fact that it was pretty obviously written around the Selfosophy Psycho, and then rewritten to absolve him from any REAL crimes, inserting the Nostradamus Nut to do all the actual killing (and that ridiculous opening, in which Ratfinkovitch is electrocuted…

@whataworkout—David Cross was in Alvin and the Fucking Chipmunks. I love the guy, but the idea that he's maintained a respectable career is suspect—post-Mr. Show, only Arrested Development really counts as something a comedian should be really proud to have on his resume. I'm sure he has a hundred solid gold toilets,…

Hey, Guy Maddin should cast Foley in his next multi-million dollar blockbuster! PROBLEM SOLVED!

Whenever an X-Files monster returns, I can't help being disappointed that Flukeman never came back.

Big onions! Big lettuce! Tomatoes like volleyballs!

I think you need to keep watching, because the Hugh storyline actually does have a payoff.

Todd, I have to disagree…
…One of my problems with the books is that Martin tends to lay everything on the table in terms of character, spelling out everyone's motivations and subtext in no uncertain terms. There are scenes in there where it's blatantly obvious what a certain character's thinking, and yet Martin goes…

Anyone wanting an ending to the Superman story needs to read All-Star Superman or Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow, neither of which are "continuity", but who cares?

Yeah, Gaiman wasn't talking about people who are understandably frustrated with Martin not finishing—he was talking to the absolutely INSANE contingent of "fans" out there who basically threatened Martin with death every second he wasn't writing, apparently unaware of a little thing that happens called "writers'…

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And let us never forget "You must be stupider than you look!" "Stupider LIKE A FOX!"

This is a highly sophistimacated doo-whackey.

Uh…Gaiman's specifically said that that god was supposed to be a real one from mythology, so it's a valid question.

So here's the requisite post…
…where I ask if anyone figured out who the unknown/forgotten/unnameable god was supposed to be. The best guess I've managed is Pluto, but I never knew him to be associated with being "forgotten".

If we're going with an ex-Firefly cast member, I'd say Jewel Staite.