Soup is fucking awesome no matter what age you are.

Apparently, while Donna lost the Doctor and all related events, and anything even slightly spacey-wacey could bring it all rushing back, the Doctor very literally just lost his memories of Clara, specifically, and remembers all stuff that happened to them. She was just airbrushed out.

"I… am an idiot!"

So, diner question: Do Clara and Me visit Utah in April, 2011 at some point to see the Doctor's death, or does their TARDIS just happen to use that diner as a model for the one it builds?

I went with Homer Simpson as head of the Stonecutters.

Before the prequels, I always assumed there was some inheritable talent to it, but that the Force was for everyone, and if Han Solo (for instance) had wanted to, he could've trained in it, too. Maybe it would've taken him twenty years of monastic training just to move a penny and know when someone was bluffing at…

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Helo-as-moral-compass really was an important pivot on the show, even if he mostly was just willing to be overt and expressive about things Adama felt privately and would allow himself to be overruled on. Plus, it was great when he was pushed. I never realized that Tahmoh Penikett is such a enormous man until that…

In one of the old reviews, there's a fun conversation about how depressingly familiar Lee's relationship with Starbuck is to all of us intellectual sticks-in-the-mud with a lust for a lust for life who fell for manic pixie dreams girls who were bad for us.

I actually fanwanked that if "The Plan" covered season 2.5, we would've totally seen that Cavil actually stole the nuke and Balter hadn't be uncharacteristically stupid, petty, and risk-taking to give away a nuclear weapon to a suicidal woman just because Roslin was a teeny bit mean to him from what she hoped to be…

I never understand how some folks come to that conclusion. The show was always fundamentally optimistic, though it made characters have to earn happy endings, and they were often only happy by the weight of a feather. Things like the first episode ending with a baby being born, or the fact that any success in the…

The red spines never came up again. They said they dropped it behind the scenes, but they also never showed a situation where it'd be visible again, and I always wondered whenever the camera lingered on someone's back whether we were about to get a sexy Cylon revelation.

Actually, it took two episodes for Fat Lee to go back to Thin Lee.

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It's new, so it'll be the better part of a year before it comes out on the soundtrack CD, but it starts with the same beginning as "This Time There’s Three of Us (The Majestic Tale)" from "Day of the Doctor," which is the part that plays in the barn when the Doctors come up with their plan to save Gallifrey.

In an earlier review, someone pointed out that the use of the Sonic Sunglasses has been very particular in order to comment on or echo themes and characters in the episode (for instance, when they were broken, reminiscent of Odin's eyepatch).

Since all the Time Lords we know and love are alive, I'd say hundreds of billions of years haven't passed outside the Confession Dial. I think they were just going to wait for him to break or die in what was, to them, a few moments (which ended up being slightly longer). Why it's sitting in the middle of the desert…

I suppose that depends on how big the ocean was. The Confession Dial was bigger on the inside (how does that keep surprising me after all the times it's been a twist?), but how much? A whole world, or just the part we saw in the dial, with the horizon just being a skybox.