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I found this to be one of the better episodes in a long while and frankly McKinnon made the Alien Abduction sketch work brilliantly. Simple premise but beautifully done, and her delivery when she plays these out-there, acerbic characters is always gold. The fact that Moynihan and Bryant were even starting to crack I…

Oh, and another thing...

I had serious issues with this finale. It started out very strong with the Doctor’s return to Gallifrey and quickly establishing the great combination of awe and fear that his experience as the Doctor of War engendered in his fellow Time Lords, and the loyalty that ensued in figures of respect like the Castellan.

Ronnie really got upset when they told him he couldn't meet any of the Ewoks or have his own lightsaber to take home with him.

So if I’m reading these reports correctly...the issue is not that we can't take a "raw, untouched" photo, it's that the cameras we're using are digital and so are technically not taking a classic light-on-plate picture but are instead 'interpreting' the light data into a composited image and therefore the sensors and…

For anyone with children in the house, this backpack is a one-way ticket to hearing somewhere from an upstairs bedroom window as you garden:

Oh. Dear. Jesus. In Cat Heaven. I laughed a testicle off.

“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and…

Excellent overall coverage of the arc of the show’s development and ultimate downfall. Certainly anyone who was a childhood fan like myself, going back and trying to watch the show again, there is nowhere near the original sense of mania and magic as it was when it was new, and the later season shows are completely…

So we appear to be finally dropping the last vestiges of the mystique of Gallifrey Lost and the Time War. Hopefully they'll at least acknowledge briefly how it is that this Doctor remembers Gallifrey's survival whereas the previous ones couldn't, and perhaps touch on whether or not the Confession Dial environment was…

So here are the last ones. And we couldn’t bear the idea of them free roaming the oceans to die out with dignity. No, like an elderly relative denied their wish to die at home, instead we crate them and house them here. I’m not supposed to tell you where. You’ll all find out one day soon enough.

Of course since we have to accept Eight as canon that could mean he was telling the truth back when he said "I'm half-human...on my grandmother's side." Though I still like to think that that was one of his bizarre jokes.

Yes, exactly what I was pointing out: his remark about the prophecy being wrong points out that a ‘prophecy’ as a concept shouldn’t really exist amongst a race of time travelers anyway. Which suggests that these things are not so much prophecy as outright misinformation and myth...possibly seeded by someone mucking…

Exactly. Now Husband 2 is also a medically-trained person, so it would have begun to MAYBE make some sense if they'd been in on it together and helped to do the breakdown of the body. But even then, whether they had two people or ten, the physical and chemical breakdown of a body to leave a cleaned, intact skeleton…

I have helped rehabilitate a couple of young women who are interested in BDSM but were sorely abused and taken advantage of by previous so-called “doms” who abused that trust to sexually assault and rape them under the guise of BDSM. There IS a distinct and clear difference that should never be miscommunicated or…

This episode, for all the great chemistry and usual banter I enjoyed, fails completely. All the cute and convoluted character trailing can’t cover up the essential fact that you cannot flense and clean, then reassemble an entire skeleton singlehanded in a single night. No amount of hyperactive corpse beetles, lye bath…

To me, this was perhaps the single best episode so far since Capaldi’s tenure began, and again why Moffat seems to keep pulling off enough hat-tricks that people forget the truly insipid stuff he’s done with the Doctor in-between.

The whole episode made a collapsing sense at the end...of course a “Confession Dial” is…

Sure, when it's a little girl dying of a brain tumor, it's all sweet and endearing. But when my uncle had prostate cancer and his last wish was to have a droid bounty hunter named CHEVRON-69 with '56 styled fins on its ass and a penile-sectioned cod-gun as its main weapon with a catchphrase that was actually Swahili…

“And over here...this is where we install the sacrificial circuit mass for the gremlin to rip out as John Lithgow shoots at it screaming."