I think they speculated once that it might be possible to reconstruct the entire movie of Citizen Kane solely from its references and spoofs on the Simpsons. 

WillyPete: I'd always interpreted the Shadow's use of telepaths not so much as using up the telepaths as providing their Battlecrabs with telepath-resistant CPUs. A telepath at the core of a Battlecrab should be harder to 'jam' than just any old sapient.

Wasn't 'Squirm' preceded by the classic 'Case of Spring Fever'? And I think 'Screaming Skull' was front-ended by a Gumby cartoon. I know the shorts did seem to take a dive during the Sci-Fi years, but I don't think they disappeared completely.

Marcus: "I think you're making him mad."
Ivanova: "Mmhmm."
Marcus: "It's bigger than we are."
Ivanova: "I know."

"EDIT: Oh, and Clara. She's become Miss Plot Convenience. Need her to
be good with kids? Sure! Need her to be good at ordering troops
around? Great! Need her to be lousy at making souffles? Fine!"

Based on next week's preview, I think it's worth considering the idea that Clara, in all her incarnations, has been suspiciously TOO perfectly fitted to whatever the Doctor's needs were at the time. She's a computer genius when he's trapped by the Daleks, a feisty governess when he's a mopey sot, and now she's kind to…

Just like the gypsy woman said!

Grimmlins? Grimmbande? The Grimmy Bears?

Nick's new catchphrase: "Thus endeth the Wesen."

The Eye is a supernova/black hole (depends who you ask) that Rassilon captured and used to power Gallifrey's early time experiments, first seen in Fourth Doctor times, and is/was the power source for TARDISes. By the time of the Eighth Doctor the Eye of Harmony was apparently aboard the Doctor's TARDIS (or some…

The girl was indeed 'taping' steam (as in recording). So that's how.

Hate-watching Heroes was a very important part of Monday night for the husband and me. No matter what else was going on in the house, we never went to bed without reminding each other how exhausting that fucking show was. Frankly, I'm pretty sure the show was saving my marriage every week. And isn't that what makes a…

*whacks Skip with her fist cane* it's WEIRDO, you idiot! He didn't want to look like a WEIRDO. You sound like a damn fool when you say it wrong.

Think it's the other way around… lizards are cold-blooded, need extrinsic heat to survive, Mars got all cold so they needed giant armored parkas. Though having said that, the return of the Ice Warriors does make me appreciate 'The Waters of Mars' all the more. 

"Strange" in the sense of "awkwardly-forced parallel to the Ice Warrior singing old Martian songs with his daughter"?

The contrast between the Doctor's approach and Clara's seems a pretty deliberate one, especially when Skaldak hisses "mutually-assured destruction?" when he hears the Doctor's threat. Implicit critique of the whole Cold War mindset (the Doctor's and Skaldak's) vs. a more huma… er, martianistic perspective (Clara's).…

"I want to read the books first, and Martin can't be bothered to produce them at a reasonable pace, so I won't start."

You can always blame Changnesia.

If you're going to haul poor KOTOR2 out of the bargain bin, play it with the TSLRCM patch, a fan effort that restores a *ton* of cut content and smooths out the gameplay tremendously. KOTOR2 is a flawed gem, but it gives you a much more morally ambiguous Star Wars universe than "Jedi good, Sith bad, and You Should…

I think it's been well-established that Rabin deliberately misquotes these episodes just to raise hackles and provoke ire.