It has to operate outside of time, anyway, since we've seen people from the present, the past (the half-face man), and the future (the soldier in "Into the Dalek"). Given that no one's noticed the massive subterranean mausoleum in St. Paul's Cathedral, I'm going to guess the Mistress has a TARDIS (with a working…

For some ungodly reason, the penultimate scene was chosen as a teaser last week, and a friend sent it to me. When Missy mentioned that "the dead outnumber the living," it reminded me of the moment in "The End of Time" when Wilf asked the Doctor if the Master's machine had turned the dead into copies of him, as well.…

Almost certainly not. The Mistress would have no way of knowing the Doctor regenerated between "Last of the Time Lords" and "The End of Time," nor of knowing how many incarnations were between John Hurt and David Tennant. Or, for that matter, how many were in between Tennant and Capaldi. For all she knows, Capaldi is…

I'm pretty sure Lee called the guy Starbuck was macking on "that Major from wherever." Plus, the sentence doesn't really scan that way: "[You sleeping with Baltar yesterday] is just like old times, like when you got drunk [and slept with Baltar yesterday]."

I've been waiting for this moment since 30 Rock Classic reviews were first announced.

I'm 90% sure that Dooku's disenchantment with the Jedi began when Qui-Gon died, so he wouldn't have been working with Palpatine at the same time as Maul.

Fire axe.

Fire exit.

That is to say, a big curve towards that trope no longer being accepted as a healthy or harmless fantasy.

I've been getting the sense that we're at a beginning of a big curve on the acceptability of the mental-illness-as-superpower trope. At least in this sort of generalized case.

Regarding the preview for next week's episode:

I thought the Stormtroopers might've been robots because they had the same box on their backs that C-3PO had. Seemed reasonable to six-year-old me.

From what I've heard, it's harder to justify spending millions of pounds on Doctor Who as something that enriches British culture or whatever the exact phrasing is if no one in Britain is actually watching it. That would actually put them in a slightly more awkward position than American networks and studios, which…

Or, from another perspective, Martha went from being a person who helped people and saved lives every day (a doctor, the Doctor's own word for "a good person") to someone who once attempted planetary suicide after being asked politely to do it by an authority figure, and then left her job, her second, somewhat more…

It's not an atheism party without old Dick!

I thought that ending line really smashed in the Doctor's self-loathing streak in a way that hadn't been foregrounded since "Amy's Choice." And in much less time, too!

Well, there was "The Pandorica Opens," but that was mostly PR to attract the Doctor's attention.

Before she met the Doctor, Martha was a well-adjusted young woman who, despite having a slightly stressful family situation, was a professional with her own career, friends, credit cards, and keys. Afterwords, she spiraled into being an increasingly cynical, cutthroat soldier (and, later, mercenary), who dropped what…

I was expecting there to be some reason for him to be immune to the psychic paper, like he was a mole or puppet from the (okay, we'll go with) Boneless. But, no, he was just too much of a son of a bitch for it. That, or he's a transformative genius on the level of Shakespeare.

That's a nice bit of character development. Since Martha, he's been becoming more conscious of the effects he can have on his Companions beyond his intentions. The Doctor being more willing to keep himself in check about ignoring his better judgment is a change from, say, when he tried to split the difference with Amy…