"…[N]obody thought it was very funny when actual hamburger ear muffs flooded the market back in 2010."

Is there an ageist statement being made, that after jelly babies and jammy dodgers, Twelve's go-to snack is a nice bowl of soup?

I was mildly disappointed that he traded in the much more eclectic Yamaha SG7 he's been rocking all season. I had just gotten used to it after spending much of the season wondering why he hadn't gone British, with a Burns or something.

Magician’s Apprentice – B+
Witch’s Familiar – A-
Both – A- (Julian Bleach out-acts Capaldi. Capaldi swears a silent vow this will never happen again)

I think Eccleston could plausibly have done it, but more importantly, I'm loving the mental image of Jon Pertwee just karate chopping through the wall in seconds flat.

If you're going to do that style of Doctor, though, McCoy (and Troughton) shows the importance of having a really solid actor and writing in place for the companion. If the Doctor is fussing around in the background, preparing his checkmate move that he'll only show in the last 20 minutes, someone has to do the…

I feel the same way. I'm astounded at how fast he's climbed in my ranking, which, if we're doing this, is currently 4-12-10-7-11

This thread has the highest concentration of the word "whimsy" I've ever seen.

Counterargument: I think he's expecting a starfield consistent with being within 1 light year of Earth, as per the deduction he makes at the very beginning. This could raise more questions than it answers, but the episode was so hugely entertaining that I don't want to bother being persnickety.

All the girls have had themes. Donna's was probably the best match with the character, although I like Rose's the best as music.

And yet from Evil of the Daleks on, it's a constant on-again off-again obsession of theirs.

He'll explain later. Two BILLION years later.

Wow. One hell of a bird.

On-screen, anyway.

Right, but that Sarah Dollard wrote the fake murder at all, and wrote it in such a way that it culminates in a room with a spend-eternity-in-jail-rather-than-die machine can't be a coincidence, certainly not after everything else this season.

I think one of the big problems with Six's tenure is that when you try and make the Doctor an anti-hero, a lot of the dramatic load lifting has to shift to the companion, and Nicola Bryant was just a very green actress back then.

Is that the Roman girl who fell out of the spaceship mid-flight wayyyyy back in the day?

Just when you think Moffat will stop working "Doctor who?" into the plot of every other episode, he writes a Dark Doctor-type character named "Me." And people thought the question marks were heavy-handed.

I honestly think our comments about her kissing Jane Austen caused that joke to happen, which seems like a quick turnaround.

I genuinely can't believe that a sci-fi TV writer would put a stasis pod in that room, with the Doctor EXPLAINING WHAT IT IS TO THE AUDIENCE, and then totally ignore it. There is no other reason for the pod to be there, none. The audience would absolutely buy Me killing a random extra and the Doctor's right, there…