Also, I’ll note that “The Power of Three” took place next year and showed UNIT was still operating.

And the Moffat era’s first story with the Daleks was set up entirely to get them back to being status-quo villains, so they aren’t all wiped out (apparently) in every appearance and need to be revived in a similarly grandiose way to come back. “Victory of the Daleks,” for all its problems, set the stage for the Daleks…

Neither! The review mentions that there weren’t advance screenings, so the only reviews would come when critics went to see it on their own with general audiences. It’s the ultimate sign a studio can give that they screwed up royal making a movie, and the only chance of making a cent off it is pure dumb luck from…

Well, I know that now, as I work my way through (I forgot about the Timeless Child. That really was a big nothing, wasn’t it?) Still, it seems like a bit of an oversight, since the news never went out to their most dedicated listeners.

I can only imagine that the fact that the Doctor’s previous mercy indirectly lead to the complete destruction of five entire planets will play out in later episodes, cos that handwaving was particularly egregious.

Tim Shaw mentioned something about Stenza keeping people in stasis as trophies (which may have been in the premiere? I mostly just remember the teeth thing, but he may have also wanted to put that guy from the train on ice), but he was doing one better and putting whole planets in stasis as trophies. It seems like a…

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I don’t believe there’s anything in the film overtly suggesting we’re seeing things filtered through Scott’s point of view, but the comic had a couple sequences that made it clear that earlier things we saw were very much slanted by Scott’s own ego and desire to be the hero, and cast everything else into doubt.

Of course, how silly of me. Satan is a myth. This was just a malevolent creature from outside our universe who had been imprisoned since the beginning of time which corrupted individuals and was set on escaping so as to make war upon God.

I was a little startled that the Doctor was so confident that Satan didn’t exist considering she met him that one time. His mindless body was chained in a big pit in a black hole. Rose blasted him into space. It seemed pretty memorable to me, but I guess some things don’t stick after thirteen hundred years.

It reminds me a bit more of the Patriot’s costume on Agents of SHIELD.

It’s one of my favorite running gags in the show. I’m easily amused by minor continuity.

The “no one watches a B-” hit me, mostly because it’s become my Sunday night tradition to check to see if The Simpsons got a B- or better on AVC to decide if it’s worth watching this week’s episode.

This episode was the biggest one in a while where I felt like they’ve really forgotten that he is, in fact, Jimmy Olsen. He’s Superman’s Pal, for God’s sake, and no one is bringing that up when people are trying to paint him as some kind of bigot? That would’ve been the first thing I’d talk about when the question of…

I don’t mind Brainy appearing human, just because the makeup team can’t seem to make his “real” look decent. I find that odd, because Jesse Rath had a similar full skin and hair alien makeup job on Defiance, and it was much more flattering. Though I suppose Brainy’s stupid oversized sweater didn’t help.

- Okay, and this is a serious question, what is the difference between what Nia Nall is talking about, and gentrification?

There was the apparently-coincidential night where “The Office” and “30 Rock,” both new episodes, both did detailed riffs on “The Sting,” which I only got because I Netflix’d a bunch of Paul Newman movies after he died and I realized I only knew his work from film references and groceries.

I’ve been known to flatly inform people that “Some of us are Davids, though most of us are Daves” when asked which I prefer.

I remember learning from a “This day in history” thing, that Woodhouse’s army buddy being shot when a sniper saw the light from his cigarette was directly cribbed from how the English satirist Saki died in World War I. Well, they just said the second part, but I put two and two together.

That, and the company was out of money and the Mac was the healthier product line. Though it’s funny to imagine a slightly alternate universe where the Newton was able to pull its own weight. Might’ve just gone straight to the iPhone with no iPod as a precursor.