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The Doctor's whole plan for Simm's Master before Lucy shot him was to use the TARDIS as life imprisonment for him.

If Scotland wants independence, then necessarily they must want independence from everywhere, not just the United Kingdom.

Rhys's man-arse was shown in at least one Torchwood episode. Also, I'm fairly sure Captain Jack said 'Shit!' when Martha teleported in The Stolen Earth. It's not clearly audible, but there's definitely a 'shi' sound to his one-syllable exclamation of anguish.

Literal foreshadowing.

Walt losing his glasses is the ultimate symbol of his loss of power and agency. Even his genius, his ability to see things, has been taken away from him.

Walt was indirectly responsible for Combo's murder, because Walt insisted that his dealers move into rival territory. Jesse was also indirectly responsible, but less so, because he was just agreeing to Walt's demands.

Jesse has had no life and no job for three months; plenty of time for him to contemplate his situation (criminal-only work history, complicity in child-murder, estranged from his family, no-one on his level to talk to) and for his self-worth to plummet.

Walt only brought up the tracking device because he didn't want Hank to suffer in silence and be a flaw in the happy family (assuming he believed that he'd be dead before he could be prosecuted). With Hank, Walt is able to be something other than a monster for the first time since Season 4, albeit he does the

What, all my pretty informants and their lawyer in one fell swoop?

I like how they gave it a new twist by having her take ages to realise what the TARDIS was, and to realise in increments. Also I like how she came up with alternate, more plausible explanations first, like how when I was 10 I decided Santa used a plane.

Also it was an inspired choice that 12 would spend 7 decades as a university professor. Well, that's very him.

Within the context of the reconsidered mind wipe it would have been great if he'd had a photo of Donna as well somehow. Just show up at Wilf's when she's not there and ask for a spare, or perhaps to commission a new one with his lottery money.

I think a lot of us were thinking of Waters of Mars after this episode. Also The Lodger and Midnight. Like perhaps someone was trying to imply those three monsters were the same.

Noel Clarke's name was never over the Time Vortex. Agyeman's and Barrowman's were.

I like that the new companion is a gay woman.
I like the idea of the next Doctor being a woman.
I don't like the idea of the former falling for the latter. It undermines the reality that compatibility between lesbians is just as unreliable as compatibility between gay men, bis and heteros.

5 episodes with John Barrowman's name over the Time Vortex means I beg to differ.

Mostly a great improvement on almost all of the last 2 seasons (except for Listen, Face the Raven and Heaven Sent).

I've got to reread the book.

He was upset and desperately trying to convey to Walt that he would be dangerously out of his element in Mexico. 'Mexican' fits that theme better than 'Spanish'.