Should have set it in the 24th century and have it star Miles O’Brien.

Karen Gillan also did this, appearing in the same episode as Peter Capaldi first did, the fires of Pompeii, before returning to play Amy Pond.

It’s probably not going to come back. These first few episodes are still establishing the rules of the Whoniverse for the new expanded Disney audience. That scene was about pre-empting any questions the new audience might have about the Butterfly Effect. Ruby changed, The Doctor realised he forgot to turn on the…

See also Happy, formerly on SyFy and based on the Grant Morrison comic, which had pretty much the exactly same scenario as a B-plot running throughout the second season. (Only it was good.)

So, you haven’t seen the movie, but you’re saying his review is incorrect.

IF is an original, big-budget Hollywood release

But why did she become a lizard-ish person? Was she meant to be a Silurian? Even Doctor Who Unleashed didn’t explain it away.

I don’t think she was supposed to be any identifiable creature from the show’s past, just a quick and easy shorthand for “she drastically changed the world’s future with this tiny act.” As for why something like that had never happened before, the show quickly handwaves it away with the Doctor running back into the…

I am a simple man. You reference Red Dwarf, you get a star.

Okay but does it still use an enormous amount of energy and water, and is built on material that was taken without consent nor paid licenses for where applicable?

So, one detail that jumped out at me: when Ruby transformed into “Butterfly Ruby”, her whole attitude switch to a sort of “Haughty Fae Queen”, including having a title of where she was from.  I would not be surprised if this turned out to be a major clue of Where Ruby Really Comes From.

HAHA I just finished watching Heroes and Heroes Reborn last week. The headline of this article was kinda creepy because of that.

and then leave your Irish girlfriend in an alternate universe and forget she existed.

“But at worst, the storms can disrupt Earth-based navigation systems like GPS”

EARTH-BASED? I THOUGHT THEY SAID GPS WAS RUN BY SATELLITES IN SPACE! SEE THEY ARE ALWAYS LYING THE WORLD IS FLAT!
-Some random flerfer that will see this and think exactly that. 

They will perform a song about eating goblins.

Yes, I’d have sex in all the rooms.  That’s what you were asking, right?

For a moment I thought that top-middle was Bob Mortimer, as part of a Reeves and Mortimer sketch.

Top-left absolutely looks like someone who knows the taste of human flesh.

This sort of looks like some kind of Midjourney image where they’d have to scrape off the garbled English from the bottom that said “TFE BEAFDOG” or something like that.

I also thought that was Simon Helberg on the lower right. IMDB does not list a Doctor Who credit, so probably not.