Soufflé Girl. Scarf Girl. Is it a Doctor Who fandom thing to reduce female characters to nicknames?

Prefer Doctor Girlfriend.

Ugh. Mass hysteria involving seven billion people is never a good plot point.

Everyone of course listens to the news constantly and would totally take heed … and obviously radio, television and internet wouldn't be affected by a forest swamping the planet.

BAH GAWD, KING?!? WHAT IN THE HELL HAS PINK JUST DONE?!? OH, THERE'LL BE HELL TO PAY ON SMACKDOWN!!!

Fucking hell, I hope they bring the Rani back soon - then shoot her full of arrows, push her off a building, set her on fire, and then hurl her ashes into the Sun.

And then the Doctor can defeat her by pressing a big RESET button, and they can remake this entire season with better characters and plots befitting Peter Capaldi!

Forgotten as easily as a forest growing over oceans.

The sonic screwdriver was referred to in this episode as "not a magic wand", clearly a direct shout at the sceptical audience. Has "handwaving" ever been explicitly referenced?

There has to be a happy medium, though, from the ADD nightmare of modern episodes, and the long, barren stretches of the old series where one of the companions would be wandering down the same corridor for 45 minutes.

I watched the first episode of Sherlock last night on BBC Three. Comparing that to the most recent series, there's a world of difference. And not a good difference.

Like an idiot savant, only more so.

Right, so: Next Week. Clara is some sort of evil imposter who wrecks everything and locks the Doctor out of the TARDIS. Missy is revealed to be whoever and wins! Boo … and then there's a magical handwave where the Doctor uses the power of love to persuade Clara to go back in time and reset everything. This shit writes…

"I don't want to see a solar flare. I was a soldier. I'm completely lacking in any imagination or original thought."

Can we say enn giggles?

Ahoy, midship!

(deep breath)

Aw, I was going to drop that knowledge! especially the part about the PM thinking it makes him look like he knows what he's doing.

I thought the entire episode seemed to have been inspired by the original dust jacket to the book The World Without Us - well, "inspired" as in, "base the entire episode around it and, uh, put in a tiger too? Also magic."

The best bit was Capaldi trying to identify one child out of the group, when he clearly can't tell any of them apart, despite age, race or gender.