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Alan LaCerra
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What Dorium said:

Apparently, because River knew the name, it didn't matter that Clara learned the Doctor's name in "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS" and started to remember the events of that episode (which ended up never occurring).  Or did it matter?  River and Clara were mentally linked; then again, River got pretty real for

Wow, the Great Intelligence was angry at the Doctor!  "I don't care if I die as long as I make every second of your life a living Hell."  What prompted all that?  The Doctor defeated him, like what, four times total.  Maybe there's more to come, taking place before Trenzalore from the Great Intelligence's perspective.

Besides being called the Valeyard, the oncoming storm, etc., the Doctor is also going to be known as The Beast according to the Great Intelligence.  Not The Beast from The Impossible Planet, surely.  There's one for the insane, obviously wrong theory corner.

I'm glad that we got to see a post-library River.  I was wondering why her involvement with the Doctor would have to stop there since her consciousness had been saved.

I believe that Sutter Risk Management was protecting the Macedonian favorite son until Moriarty used Sherlock to make some major changes there and take over that protection detail, thus ensuring that the guy from Nurse Jackie protecting said favorite son was actually working for Moriarty (which is why even though

OMG, they're bringing back The Tomorrow People, again.  I may have to watch that.

Shawn was incredibly wrong about Lauren and Bob.  Now that Juliet knows, I was hoping for some sign or expression, something to convey "You're just randomly picking at people, aren't you, Shawn?!"  But no, Shawn gets it wrong and then right as always, and nobody even cares.

I'm glad that Sam doesn't complete the trials and die (though something's happening to his body when the episode ends that's probably telling him he'll be in pain if he doesn't complete the trials), but the way we get to that point just feels arbitrary.  Sam doesn't do it because Dean wants him to live.  That's all

Let's see.  How can we cram the most Disney franchises into next season?  Neverland has fairies (Tinker Bell and company from her movie series), birds (the eagle from The Rescuers Down Under), Pirates (from the Caribbean movies), Native Americans (people from Pocahontas, Brother Bear, heck why not The Emperor's New

Tigger / Shere Khan?

But it's magic, so literally anything could have happened for all we know.

They were destined to fight.

When Peggy talks to Ted about Dawn, Ted asks something to the effect of "black or white," meaning he wants to know whether Peggy is referring to Don Draper or his African-American secretary Dawn.

To me, "margarine" will always be defined as "not butter."  I don't care at all if I use margarine, butter, or whatever else there is, but that thought will always be somewhere in my brain.  And I don't think Don's pitch about breakfast would do much to change my mind.

I was thinking about men and their plans in relation to this episode and concluded that Pete is like RFK.  They both have plans for what they want to do with their lives (and on a larger scale beyond themselves, for the company or the nation), but someone comes along and gets in the way.  I'm not saying that Pete's

I read Bob's actions as kindness too.  He may be one of the episode's men with a plan, but he didn't give Joan the cyst.

Hipster Assassin Jack reminded me of The Americans.

Let's get back to crossing people's faces off photographs.

Oh God no!  And they did introduce the idea with Jack wanting to play dead as long as possible.