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"[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts] is, as the title suggests, a collection of all the radio scripts, as broadcast, and it is therefore the only example of one Hitchhiker publication accurately and consistently reflecting another. I feel a little uncomfortable with this—which is why

I really hope Capaldi stays around for at least another season or two just so he's remembered as the shades-and-guitar Doctor rather than the am-I-a-good-man Doctor. It wasn't until this season got going that I realized how little I liked last season, and most of it was just because of Twelve's characterization.

To be fair, Captain Jack lived for tens (or hundreds, can't remember) of billions of years, where Time Lords only have something like thirteen thousand* if they live were to take each incarnation all the way to a death of old age, so Jack was much closer to true immortality.

Ashildr is totally going to be the Minister of War. I mean, she's a Viking.

But William Hartnell's Doctor was the first incarnation. That's been confirmed in-show multiple times.

Maybe that's why they can't make sound with their mouths—they're all skin and skeleton.

RTD already gave the Master's madness a backstory with the "staring into the Vortex" thing.

Fair point, but in context, it was a Dalek begging for mercy. If a Dalek is capable of pleading for its life, the Doctor of all people has to have seen it before.

Well, okay, in that moment, yes. But it was on a whim, is the thing, and after she was just like "Well it would've been neat if you'd killed her, but never mind let's get on with things."

I'm pretty sure the Doctor sees the humans as the moral equals of the Time Lords (whether that's a compliment to humans or an insult to the Time Lords probably changes with his mood) and I certainly don't think he'd value a member of his species over another based just on race.

But the Master wasn't a villain this episode; she's not a hero or really on the hero's side, but her actions (or at least her intentions) weren't actively evil. That's how I'd like to see her going forward—sometimes an antagonist, sometimes a recurring character like River who just happens to be homocidally and

Because it was a cute line. The Dalek said "You are an enemy of the Daleks," of course she pointed that out.

Looked up a transcript for his exact words. Some people were pointing guns at him as they so often do, and he said "You'll have to spend a lot of time shooting me because I will keep on regenerating. In fact, I'm not entirely sure that I won't keep on regenerating forever."

They were in the "next time" part, so we'll be seeing them again at least once.

Pics or it didn't happen
Edit: For future reference, that was a spambot. I was skeptical of its claim that its mother bought a Kia from the money she made working at home or something like that.

I thought Davros was trying to use the Doctor's regeneration energy to turn the currently-existing Daleks into Dalek/Time Lord hybrids, to create "a greater warrior than ever before". He succeeded, which was why the Daleks said they were more powerful than ever before when they woke up, but then the Doctor destroyed

I love it when a villain is just a villain. Davros' fakeout reminded me of the last verse of "When You're Evil" by Voltaire.

Judging from what he said in "Kill the Moon", he doesn't actually have any idea how many regenerations he has now, and he actually thinks he might be able to regenerate indefinitely, so that's probably why he was willing to give a little away.

This episode it wasn't even the music for me, it was the sound effects (particularly in the sewers, with the slurping soupy Daleks).