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Shawn Michaels could cut a promo that was just him reading the damn phonebook, and it'd be captivating. And that's not even getting into his wrestling!

In honor of tonight's announcement of the College Football Playoff rankings, we are pleased to announce our own propietary rankings:

I honestly don't see a whole lot of parallels between the Daleks and Islamic fundamentalism, nor between Davros and bin Laden. I guess the connections you list are possible, but it all seems a bit too tenuous to me.

Right, I think my assumption as I watched was that the show would get back to that plotline eventually — I even thought maybe Clara asked Jac to go back to her apartment to see if they could continue that line of investigation. So it sure seemed interpretable as normal-ish Clara behavior.

Right, but I think as molly man kind of suggested, "the Doctor is in mortal peril!" is the grist for, like, 80% of Who cliffhangers historically. And that number might be low, honestly.

This may just come down to how much of a sense of Clara you have. I still find her kind of vaguely and/or inconsistently drawn, so I'm used to her doing some things that don't quite make sense, particularly when she's being oddly passive for plot reasons.

Yeah, maybe my least favorite aspect of Who fandom is this sense of entitlement that Christopher Eccleston somehow owes the show or its fans anything. He's an actor with no particular emotional attachment to the project, he came on and did a fantastic job, all while working through what was apparently one of the worst…

Um, he had a reason. It was because they were awesome.

I'm going to go ahead and cosign pretty much every word of this.

If the show were a bit more self-consciously high-brow, you could totally imagine them using supervillain attacks as some kind of insane metaphor for Detroit. I'm glad they're not really going in that direction, but still!

When he spearheaded the Starling City revival effort in the wake of the Undertaking and the Slade Wilson-ing, he said it was time to turn the city into a "Star City." I don't know if they really came back to that in a big way after a couple mentions early in season 3, though.

I just wanted to get the review up in a halfway timely manner, and I didn't really have much to add that I hadn't already noted in the review.

"The Wedding Of River Song" is incredible, and I'm not interested in debating this one outside the context of, like, a podcast devoted to debating Doctor Who, or something.

I don't know if it's quite that, if only because I suspect the paycheck can't nearly be good enough for that to be the sole reason Davison does it. I think it's more likely a byproduct of the fact that Davison is by far the busiest working actor of Doctors 4-7 (I know McCoy recently had The Hobbit, but I think Davison…

Right…but this is surely where we get into the subjective bit. I mean, it's all subjective, but none of this is about what you should see, merely what others do. I'm characterizing the argument in favor of the episode, not proselytizing for it.

Basically, the more they just let the 12th Doctor be Peter Capaldi, the better he gets. As is often the case with Doctors.

Well, something like this is still likely to be the best way Big Finish can do stories with the 11th Doctor for the next couple of years, and with the 9th Doctor for the foreseeable future. Also, I'm curious to see Lily Arwell again, even if that is one hell of a deep cut.

All the writing and casting information is at the first link up top, which Anthony Strand also helpfully posted. Alice Krige is one of the guest stars! The Borg Queen herself!

Capaldi with grown-out hair and hoodie = GOAT