Yeah, this is all dorky bookkeeping on my part anyway.

No, I hadn't heard that.

Yeah, I mentioned it twice in the review to let people know what's up. But my understanding of the mechanics of TV seasons (the main one of which for broadcast networks runs September to May, I believe) is that this is what would be considered the finale, hence why Fox is promoting that one as a bonus episode.

I think we're right around the end of what's considered the broadcast season, so this is the finale. Anything ending in June is a weird throw-in after the fact.

This is totally going to be a deeply silly thing a whole room full of people do at a Doctor Who convention.

Sit down, I have some bad news for you

That's such a mean way to describe Julian Glover's beautiful face.

"The Doctor meets Dril" is the true celebrity historical we all need right now.

Presumably real Earth leaders wouldn't fail the Test of Shadows as they would be able to generate truly random numbers, so that would be a pretty simulation-specific plan.

Thanks!

The true 2017 move would have been for the Doctor to unleash a 45-part Twitter thread about the damn injustice of it all.

I don't want to stand too much in the way of wild, unabashed speculation, but the 50-year time period is never specifically confirmed, and is in fact contradicted in the very next sentence. From "The Pilot":

Duggan opening a bottle of wine by smashing the top against the counter is maybe the best sight gag in TV history.

I ride hard for season nine, but I think season 10 might be pacing ahead of it through six. Let me see…

Not to give away a line from this week's podcast, but I called her "Mary Poppins meets the Joker," which, yes, I think that's about right.

Most times, I think he's just winding people up when he says stuff like that. I mean we finally saw what really happened with Queen Elizabeth and the 10th Doctor, and it wasn't nearly as sexual as it was cracked up to be.

I think all jokes get in line behind damn near everything that happens in "City of Death," starting with, "Oh, what a lovely butler. He's so violent!"

But… I mean… he said their simulation was too good. You know, turning the aliens' own hubris against them and whatnot. I dunno, seeing as it's all just strings of data in the end, I find it pretty easy to get on board with, especially when the explanation is tied up in highlighting a character weakness of the monsters.

As I said on Twitter, it's my favorite Alan Moore line ever.

And an even bigger role in why they took him back twice!