I'm wrong. I forgot that Davros used the word "prophecy." For Moffat, that word is basically the Bat-Signal.

I thought they might be building to something like, Dalek/Time Lord hybrids may be more powerful, but they're also going to be plagued with empathy and compassion, or something like that. Not the same as Rusty, but a similar notion. Going by the history of the show, I think it's likelier to be, at most, random seeds…

That was the Doctor's stated intention. He walks into Davros's trap saying he'll just give Davros a little dab to get him through another sunrise (out of some secret shame over his inability to save Handles, no doubt). Davros and the Doctor both know that once he's in, a lot more is going to get juiced out.

"…a surprisingly traditional resolution for a story that started out kind of all over the place."

If we can stretch the definition a tiny bit, I'd add Wilf Mott. Bernard Cribbins and Tennant were onto something spectacular there. They killed it together every single scene.

Have we not yet mentioned the cup of tea? That's probably my first definitive Doctor moment from Capaldi. Absolutely brilliant. I was grinning ear to ear at that.

At this point I just have to assume that was on purpose, as with her asking the Doctor "Which of us is dying?" or whatever it was, last episode.

Fair enough, but last season we had those clockwork cyborg guys; the mummy cyborg soldier; robot knights; Scovox Blitzer; the Doctor's imagination; the flat people; and the Teller. And frankly, I thought Danny was an incredible character. He was an anti-companion, The show's never done anything like that before.

4/5 of those stories you cited are Moffat's, I assume you know that?

The BBC has some production art up and the amp the Doctor was using was built by Magpie Electronics, from "Idiot's Lantern."

"…so feel free to speculate wildly as to what their background is."

"* Missy is actually The Rani, telling 12 she's The Master to gain his trust (not my idea, just loved it too much)"

It's a good thing she didn't tell it to anyone who had actually met the Doctor as a little boy just last season and had a formative moment with him discussing the nature of fear. If she told it to anyone like that, the line might have fallen flat.

Okay, I watched it again. That's right. That's what happened. I don't like Daleks having Cybermats, but that's what happened.

They're so out of sync that there's still a theory floating around that the actual chronologically final Dalek story was one of the Troughton series. I never subscribed to it, but the more convoluted the Daleks' story becomes, the more appropriate it seems.

Star Trek: The Next Generation - "Encounter at Farpoint" - September 1987
Doctor Who - "Time and the Rani" - Also September 1987.

I took Post Critique's criticism to be more like "Why are people getting selfies with Cybermen in front of St Pauls when nine years ago, Cybermen posing as their dead grandparents broke down their doors and started dragging them out of their houses?"

My long standing theory is that they're an offshoot of the Great Vampires.

Davros:Ultron::The Master: Maximus the Mad

McGann would have looked like a Whitesnake video rolling in on a tank, wearing a poet shirt, locks flowing in the breeze.