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Watch them bring back Cyber-Brig and then have him turn out to be Handles in the most Moffat-y twist that ever Moffat-ed.

Thing I don't get:We all know that Davros's relationship with the Daleks is contentious at times. They plot against each other a lot. Even the Daleks grown from his own cells seem to install an Emperor Dalek and stash Davros in the basement. That being the case,when the Daleks' puppets were all surrounding the

The Daleks figured out how to blow up a TARDIS safely in the Time War,I assume. Although that's another matter that I don't get about Moffat making the Time Lords into omnipotent gods. Why were they losing the War?

Just so. And it makes a lot of sense that Gomez's Master would act that way, even if Ainsley's Master probably couldn't tell Nyssa from Peri. But this setup, whatever gags it affords,seems to depend on Clara being one more of the Doctor's interchangeable strays, when the whole second half of Season 7, which was

I'm a little off-put by the way Moffat does these deep dives into DW continuity, but doesn't really do anything with the character arcs that he ACTUALLY WROTE. It was weird enough in Deep Breath to have Clara freaking out over the regeneration when in Name of the Doctor, she's actually been there for all of them.

He wants to see an action movie that doesn't contain eels?

If only…*sigh*

I would like Lake Bell to be my sex lady.

Yeah, exactly. And contrasting the level of brutality in the two women's upbringing and training with their equal skill level would be an impressive rebuttal to the system that created Dottie, but the West can't make that argument because it's too sexist to see Peggy's competence or take advantage of it. Meanwhile,

I wonder if, now that Peggy's "proven herself," she'll start getting more respect from the men at work (once next week's business gets cleared up). I kind of like the contrast between the liberty-loving Americans keeping Peggy in a box and the godless commies letting Dottie do deep-cover whatever-she's-doing with

Congratulations, Alston! You've just been promoted to Head Writer of Backstrom!

I think the thing that makes me angriest about all this is that I now have to root for James Franco.

I had thought that the season's running gag of showing off potential replacements for Clara had reached an unacceptable nadir with the end of my nerd-crush Osgood. But, then, at the last second, they came up with someone even better.

I didn't read it, but there is a comic where the big bad is the kid Eccleston kicked off the TARDIS back in Season 1.

I liked this episode, mostly because Clara's plan was basically the same one the Road Runner often used to foil Wile E. Coyote. Paint a door on a wall and then use it.

"We may have created a monster in the lab."

I feel like we've covered some of this ":You are a good Dalek" territory before. Maybe it's just because I saw Remembrance of the Daleks recently, where Seven genocides the hell out of them, but with Nine's spittle-flecked rage at the Dalek in the eponymous episode and Eleven's conversations in Victory and Asylum,

Strangely enough, my money is on the return of the Rani.

Thor.

Antmusic???