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All songs should be measured in millimeters.

I just got done with my re-watch and he does remember the previous incarnations. He says something to that effect when standing at the wall about how this is the point where he always remembers. His scene in the TARDIS where he is despairing and asking why he can't just lose is not just about him realizing what he

Except that wasn't the 11th Doctor's body.

I have to rewatch the episode but the reviewer is saying that the Doctor only remembers the other incarnations once he sees the word "bird" on the ground. He doesn't remember anything until that point. I personally just thought that was the point where he understood what he needed to do, but I could have totally

Who says he didn't try all of these things and they simply didn't work? He had 7000 years worth of incarnations before this one. I like to think it took him that long to figure out the only way to win was to take the "long way around" and set up his future incarnations perfectly so that they would follow the plan.

Forget getting Peter Jackson - I want a Guillermo del Toro episode. Preferably one that takes place during the Spanish Civil War.

I was going to write this but then you wrote it and now I have nothing left to write.

This is a good way of looking at it. If the world of the confession dial is it's own pocket universe then it's not necessary for anything that happened inside of it to make sense in the outside universe.

It just depends on what each individual viewer wants from an episode of Doctor Who. For me this episode was the high water wark for the season and probably of Capaldi's time on the show. Here are some of my reasons:
It was a wonderful puzzle/mystery episode.
The resolution was bonkers but made perfect sense.
A great

I think that's the importance of the time frame of the first Doctor incarnation we encounter being 7000 years after the Doctor was first transported to the castle. Who knows how many tries it took for him to nail everything he needed to do to make sure that he was perfectly setting up the rest of his incarnations to

I'm going to guess that time inside the dial was flowing at a different rate than outside. It's the only explanation that makes sense to me. The stars he saw would have had to have been a simulation since it's hard to believe the dial was just sitting out in the open for hundreds of billions of years. Then again

This one demands a rewatch. Not just because it was a wonderful episode but like many episodes from the Moffatt era I find myself wondering if I missed bits of exposition that would explain better just what the hell was going on. Perhaps some of my questions will be answered in next week's episode but I have a

I am kind of shocked with this rating. I thought this was easily the best episode of the season and in fact I'd be hard pressed to remember the last time I enjoyed an episode this much. I agree that the main villain wasn't all that exciting but everything else was really on point for me. Going by most of the

Attack of the Giant Eye Boogies

Sounds like Liman…

Sounds like a really long 1980's Calvin Klein commercial.

I'm glad it isn't aggressively terrible anymore like it was last season but I too miss the show from the first season that could be genuinely thrilling, scary, disturbing and hilarious all at the same time. I watch mostly while doing something on my phone hoping that some of that early magic will return.

Had to help his older, much more charismatic brother, Sawyer, with a long con or some such thing.

Why is it so hard to get this show right? All the elements have been there from season one to make a great show and yet not only do they continue to fuck it up they continue to fuck it up worse and worse.

I think that works as well as anything.