So this is what she's been up to? She hasn't done much since that film with Clive Warren.

In this day and age, box office records feel like sports records in the era of steroids: they change so often and are so artificially enhanced that they cease to be interesting.

It's a three way tie between Courtney Barnett's "Depreston", Grimes' "Kill v Maim" and Speedy Ortiz's "The Graduates".

My point exactly!

Yeah, it's basically my attempt to do The Other without the whole reincarnation angle, which I've always thought was dumb and makes the Doctor special in a bad way.

I think "The Caretaker" helped too. Personally, I think every Doctor's debut series should have a Gareth Roberts episode, because he's the best at writing to a specific incarnation of the Doctor while simultaneously making him feel like the same man as the rest of him.

I think the Minister of War comment is just a little seed that he planted for himself for down the road. He might pay it off eventually or he might leave it for the next showrunner. Or it may just exist as a little joke about all the stuff that happens to the Doctor that we don't see.

It's all part of this story that I have kicking around in my head for how the show would end and tie up a bunch of disparate hints and mythological dead ends the show has built up over the years. Basically, the Doctor finds out that he's going to end up co-founding Gallifrey in a stable time loop and so he deletes his…

The two-parters definitely have helped give series 9 an edge. Structurally, it feels unlike anything Doctor Who has done since the revival. I liked series 8 a bunch, but, watching this series, I've felt like I've been watching something unique and important for the show.

I'd say his handling of Clara in series 7 also looms pretty large over the conversation as well, even if the next two series (especially 8) did a lot of work to fix that.

I'm not the biggest fan of the hybrid either, partially because it seems slightly silly and involves a prophecy, which is such a tired sci-fi/fantasy trop, and partially because it means it's probably gonna invalidate my personal theory for why the Doctor left Gallifrey and I've spent a lot of time working that out.

If next week sticks the landing, this will probably go down as the best finale story of the revival, beating out the Pandorica two-parter.

7 is still probably my favorite. Not only is he a great character, but he comes with arguably the best companion. Plus, I love how aggressively weird his era is.

It's not a scene exactly, but the pizza that Louis CK eats in the opening to Louie always makes me want pizza so bad.

She said, "Do you think the Cybermen fear merciful death?" Basically, she's saying that, in order for the raven to work as a way to enforce order, it can't just kill you. It has to kill you in a painful way, because some of the denizens of the trap street don't fear death.

My favorite David Mitchell Rant Masquerading As A Sketch is the Best Man Sketch, which actually has one of the best articulations of romantic love ever: "Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favor."

One of my favorite backstage bits is the one where Robert asks David if it's possible for people to levitate and then gets all defensive about it.

The line is even better than that:

I actually kind of like it that way. The reveal in Jedi isn't that dramatic. This order turns the fact that she has twins in ROTS into a reveal and gives you some dramatic irony going into ROTJ.

Honestly this episode reached RTD era levels of bad.