Heh. Indeed. I'm relieved it found an audience. :)

LOL at Prussian. Maybe it's like the orangutan in "Murders in the Rue Morgue": everyone agrees that they overheard some sort of foreign language (really, it was the orangutan), but they all have different takes on which language it was, in particular. The German speaker thinks it's Dutch, the Norwegian thinks it was…

I think this means you can't be Prime Minister.

… And unnecessarily-humanoid aliens, I would hope. (And with British accents all, though that one makes sense: cheaper than hiring real aliens.)

Phase-shifted, as it were.

I want Rusty to come back as a Companion.

Strax's ears must be burning; ridiculously attributing masculinity to Clara is his thing.

Those eyebrows are a live wire.

A giant regifted them as a salt-and-pepper set.

INDETERMINATE or maybe UNDEFINED

Are there any audio productions set in Wales for no discernible reason? :)

Masterette

QUESTION FOR BOOK PEOPLE:

There was a long thread here some years ago, I think around the time Daniel Craig was announced as Bond, and naturally the comments turned into a ranking of all the previous Bond movies and actors, and I recall seeing Lazenby and his single movie get quite a bit of love. [Then again, the reason for the salience in my…

And then we get to meet Doctor Who's Missy. (Yay?)

Plus, outside-the-text, the irony of inflicting an eternal sentence to beings with short lifespans (as you suggest, his initial plan was to wait them out, to run the clock on their mayfly lives).

Those punishments for The Family were surprisingly hardcore. Watching them, in the moment, they're a nice unexpected flourish, a grace note, a little bonus, but I can also see how it—the ruthlessness therein displayed—could become problematic for the character's consistency.

Why'd they dub him?

With this grade, the quota for that particular letter has been filled and thus it can never be used again. There can only be one [C+ per season]!

I wonder if boars are self-conscious about their name and therefore trigger-shy about telling stories at social gatherings. Imagine a species called tl;dr (but homophonically misspelled).