The reveal of it being Mondasian Cybermen really is just an easter egg, though, and nothing more. It's the strict definition of "easter egg" as I'd interpret it, just a bonus, not a necessary piece: You don't need to know anything else about them or to have watched the 1966 serial in which they originally appeared…

What about Kinja? Remember, the Kinja-pocalypse is coming to this site. WHAT DO WE DO?!?! WHERE DO WE GO?! Reddit?

That nitwit Murray Gold has been hammering home the emo moments like swatting a fly with a Buick for the entirety of nu-Who now and it drives me utterly bonkers! Where did they find this dipshit? Occasionally Gold comes up with good, relatively subtle stuff, but in many episodes it's such insipid vile trash! Kenny G…

The show will need mixing up very badly because Chibnall is quite possibly the most boring Doctor Who writer who has ever lived, and now he's going to be the freaking showrunner. That Silurian two-parter in season 5 was a great cure for insomnia but it wasn't great in any other respect. And he was the showrunner for…

This just seems so unlikely given the rabidness of British tabloids. I don't think we'll get the proper regen until the Xmas special, which will start filming soon, so we might know soon who the next Doctor is.

I'm not great with faces, so even though I've watched Life on Mars, I didn't recognize Simm here until he started saying very leading things to Missy, and then I finally got it. So it worked great for me, but it would've been even more surprising if the BBC hadn't packed their promos with Simm (and the Mondasian…

*SOB* I'm going to miss all of you SO MUCH! [runs away bawling]

So he's like a starfish, then? He cuts his feet off, drops them in Puget Sound for some reason, and they keep growing back?

Thanks, yeah, I thought her various theories were probably rubbish but I couldn't manage to remember all the things you're pointing out. Now I can't believe I forgot that Good Dale was watching Bad Dale driving, etc.

Honestly, you can stop watching after season 2 or 3. By season 4 it starts getting progressively more and more schmaltzy and insipid, and Mac does fewer and fewer and fewer allegedly-clever things per episode (declining to absolutely zero by season 6 or so), and the alleged cleverness becomes even more dubious than…

Ha, and it's interesting that the electric talking tree seemed very bloodthirsty towards the "other" dwarf (who appears in the credits as "Ike 'The Spike' Stadtler"), getting really excited about encouraging Dougie!Coop to "squeeze his hand off", a strange exhortation that suggests that the perhaps residents of the…

I was watching this at a weekly gathering in an artsy backyard in Bushwick (I know how that sounds, but I swear to Glob I'm not a hipster).

Ugh, no. That has to be the most disgustingly jingoistic thing in all of Doctor Who.

This doesn't really matter a hill of beans in the greater scheme of things, but I'm a pedantic sumbitch, so:

Don't eat my butt! (In any case, I'm not Officer Meow Meow Fuzzyface.) That's a more interesting interpretation than the more obvious approach of saying it's exploring senility and aphasia and/or recovery from a stroke.

Since this entire site is apparently going down the Kinja drain* pretty soon (if you thought Disqus was ever disappointing or frustrating, JUST WAIT!), I just want to say, it's been an honor, folks! You're the best! There's been nowhere friendlier and more welcoming on the Internet for commenting on TV and pop culture…

Well, that's extremely upsetting and depressing.

Mark Gatiss's episodes are usually so boring. I went into this with very low expectations. But despite some atrocious dialogue ("I have a bad feeling about this!" — was that supposed to be funny? because it wasn't), this was one of his least worst efforts. This episode had a more interesting clash of elements than…

To some degree I'd agree with you, but I always go into episodes written by Gatiss with such low expectations that this one seemed a bit better than I'd been expecting. Plus, this had the benefit of following some of the most cipher-y cipher villains the show has ever had: Compared to the Monks (and a lot of the other…

Oh no, I hate Kinja's comment system. Blargh. Where did you read this? Just a rumor or what?