Look up the term Penny Dreadful and see why such things are unimportant. This episode was a delightful throw back to a different style of writing, matching almost perfectly its setting.

It bought it up a FULL letter for me :) Such a silly through away moment but thats what makes and has always made Doctor Who

as a huge old school (and new) doctor who fan I thought they summed up us brilliantly, well actually how Americans perceive us to be like. It was like this Jane Austin doco i was watching the other days and saw how differently US and UK conventions are. I thought the joke about Christmas Special was awesome,…

Minerva is the Roman Goddess of Wisdom (plus others things), so to use that name as a male villian is actually really funny and a bit wrong. and indeed parodies old Doctor Who that would often just use cool names cos they liked the sound of it :)