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He didn't call glass! Sweet Clyde! Laugh derisively at him!!

Yeah, the "please objectify me" vibe that Sam mentioned covers up a deep well of wanting control that expresses itself with guys as dominatrix stuff and with girls as "who died and put you in charge" brattiness. But so far in her career, the men actually are the ones in charge so she keeps it in check with them.

Fair enough. I suppose a better way of expressing my thought would be that she's always willing to come through with cash to help the team. She picks up lunch for Ruth after taking her good gym shoes (and may or may not have collected from her later). And when she and Sheila and Tammé realize they need to pay for a

Hell, someone from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt ended up on OITNB (or at least at the prison). No one is safe!

I agree that none of these will get addressed, except maybe Nardole and the kids. Since we're probably seeing the First Doctor at the end of The Tenth Planet and right before his own regeneration, Cybermen will still be at least in the background of the story, which could easily lead us back to Nardole. I'm just

Remaining Capaldi threads that have one more chance to be resolved:

The whole thing is timely. The ultimate wrestling mark has his finger on the button. I think all of the racial and political stuff in this show probably feels a LOT different if you watch it over on Earth-2.

Also nice that Reggie was on board with Debbie's promo at the end.

It was a nice end to their arc.

I think we should focus on Arthie inventing the Running Man. Years ahead of her time, Arthie!

I could watch Final Form Zoya strut around the ring with that evil smile all damn day. I haven't seen ANYONE have that much fun with ANYTHING since my six-year old niece got a puppy.

Yeah, exactly. I'm sure Big Finish is fun to work with and a relatively easy gig, but John Hurt must have had plenty of offers. Being an official Doctor was meaningful to him on some level.

I loved Hurt just as an actor, but I was especially touched that he really wanted the War Doctor to "count." He really wanted to be an official Doctor Who.

I also wanted to say: I don't know what effect the gap had in the show's budget, but this year on the whole looked really good.

Of course, we've already established for decades that regeneration is just one of the Master's ways of not dying. Bringing The Master back is easy. And if Gomez wants to come back, she can be Missy from some other point on the timeline. And, given just that that line IS so redundant, there's a decent chance Gomez

I did love that they had to start using the Cybus Industries Cybermen for budget reasons and explained it with Cyber-evolution.

I'm okay with the Bill resolution, as long as Bill and The Pilot don't show up again. I think it works as a "you decide which version you like best" thing where either they dragged him up to the TARDIS or he dragged himself up there a la Heaven Sent, and imagined a happy ending for Bill in his wrecked state.

You could honestly read it as Birdie looking out for Bash. Ask the Fyre Festival guy: once you start defrauding rich people, they'll come after you. Birdie could have thought "sigh, my beautiful idiot is carelessly heading from feckless gadabout to convicted felon if I don't intervene."

Simultaneous with Sam's insistence that HIS idea (wrestling show cum Troma film) is sacred.

His life's work is a time-travel incest comedy! Unwittingly trying to fuck his daughter was all but inevitable.