Series 5 remains the high water mark for me, but that one does have some weaker entries in "Victory of the Daleks" and the Silurian two-parter. (Though I like those more than most do.) So … yeah, if the last four episodes are strong, this one has a chance to surpass series 5, and I'd say it's already moved ahead of…

The nice thing is that this season has maybe done less foreshadowing of the concluding two-parter than any previous season. Like, we've have talk of the hybrid, and the Minister of War, and I imagine those might be important somehow, but beyond that pretty much nothing. Should make it really easy to compartmentalize…

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As Shipwreck suggests, part of the point is that Zygella and company didn't really have much concrete justification. But I'd say the biggest thing was that they wanted the freedom to live openly as Zygons, which is fair enough yet also unrealistic. Of those kinds of tensions extremists are born.

That was literally what went through my head as I got into the adjacent thread. We're all just channeling Tina Belcher, one way or another.

I liked it better than Tennant's "It's a fighting hand!" from "The Christmas Invasion." Or his uncanny valley American accent from Gracepoint, for that matter.

Sure, it's worth referring to in the sense that it was originally written as the official continuation of the Who mythos before the new series almost immediately superseded it — it remains crazy to think that Richard E. Grant was the official 9th Doctor for, like, two weeks — but it just strikes me as a little odd to…

It's like Jon Pertwee's hair and Tom Baker's hair had a baby, or something.

True, though since "Scream of the Shalka" is the only Doctor Who story ever officially decanonized, it's maybe not the best place to go for evidence of the Doctor's true nature.

If by "Scream of the Shalka" you mean "pretty much every episode of the show ever made from 'An Unearthly Child' on," then, yes, that's correct.

I *do* know a guy named Brandon. I only wish we good friends!

They took it off iTunes. I had to resort to … other means just to watch one episode.

"C'mon Laurel, we're still half-assedly pretending that was Roy, or something."

Inexplicably immortal John Constantine walks into the post-apocalyptic world of The 100, asks those stupid teens for a cigarette.

As I sort of hinted at in the review, I think the show just has to be realistic about what Laurel can be on the show, and that's the cool sidekick type character. She's already superfluous to the romantic elements of the show as presently constructed, Sara is leaving soon enough for Legends of Tomorrow, and her dad…

Huh, that's sort of my name, but not really.

I don't know how much we disagree on what the show is trying to do with Laurel. It sounds like we more disagree on the effectiveness of the attempt.

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It was listed as a repeat, so I left it off. As with Drunk History last week, I should have double-checked. Fixed now!

I'm sorely tempted to hashtag the word below, to set up an infinite recursion. But, nah, not this time: