Okay, so…what are we going to call this incarnation of the Master? Missy, the Mistress, and the Master all have cases in their favor, I think.

The Mistress' randomly-changing accent was just fantastic.

There was Queen Elizabeth.

Yeah, the logistics here are going to be utterly maddening if they're not fleshed out in the next part. If they're not, I'll probably be too distracted to enjoy the rest of the episode properly.

Well, right. I guess I'm not properly explaining what I mean. Sometimes I'm good with words, but then sometimes I'm not, but I keep using them anyway.

Well, right, that's certainly an issue. But I think we can take this to mean it's just the Mistress, not Time Lord society

Sure, but the faux-sympathetic way that the guy asked "Are you going to be cremated?" really tips off that if your body is destroyed you die in the Nethersphere. It should have been foreshadowed way more subtly, I think.

Nope, just a New Whovian here

We've often seen that Clara seems to know more than the Doctor would usually tell his companions.

I didn't notice Drusilla having a bad accent. Her voice was just beautifully creepy.

I'd assume they're pretty important to him. Maybe it's difficult to make more.

Well, yep, those are the questions. Apparently the skeletons inside the Dark Water didn't even have brains.

The Doctor has always faced the Cybermen with more immediate seriousness than even the Daleks, because he knows that (unlike most of his enemies) he can't banter with them; they really will just shoot him. So running around yelling at people to run away rather than hurling insults at them or something fits with his…

The Doctor called her a Time Lord, implying that that's the standard, and the Mistress corrected him to 'Lady' because she's 'old-fashioned'. I guess she just prefers it.

The impact of the Three Words was really undercut by the fact that it had already been strongly hinted at at least twice already.

Also true. Converts sunlight into matter, maybe? There are any number of ways that could have been handwaved. The issue isn't really that it doesn't make sense in real-world science, it's that the episode expects us to believe that it does. Doctor Who usually gets away with this kind of thing by having the…

Entirely true, but they weren't there for kid viewers—they were there for Clara. When you've got a schoolteacher as a main character, you need to have kids to reveal that side of her character.

Oh, I just have no idea what her name was. And I like nicknames.

I never considered Scarf Girl might come back. I love Scarf Girl.

I guess my problem is that, being a geek, I always want all the different bits of a fictional universe to fit together, and I can't reconcile that with what we've generally seen in this show. I should probably just try and accept that it works well enough for this episode, but my obsessive geek nature would never let…