I wouldn't write Girder off quite yet. We didn't get explicit confirmation of his death when he collapsed in the hallway. (And besides, this *is* a superhero show.)

I'm really disappointed nobody in this episode ever said, "Metahuman? More like metalhuman."

"I couldn't manage to pick up a stray hair from Sam's bathroom; he was too suspicious."
"Okay, let's have you sneak in and access his computer instead."

I'm on board with the Clara-is-pregnant theory, yeah. I'm sure you could hand-wave another reason for why Orson would be connected to her timeline, but I think her being his ancestor still makes the most sense.

I'm almost positive Jenna's been confirmed as appearing in the Christmas special — though if memory serves, she's refused to comment about whether she'll be in series 9 or not. Given how this series ended, though, I would imagine the special will end her story with the Doctor one way or another. (Not that it seems all…

Here's what Steven Moffat had to say about Missy's apparent death on tonight's episode of Doctor Who Extra:

It's nice that Roy from The Office is still getting work.

I like how Oliver tells Barry "I'll be right there" and hangs up his cell phone without having any information whatsoever about where in Starling City the guy is.

Considering that Gotham's quality has so far been about on par with late-series Dexter, that seems fair.

"I'm Agent Johnson!"
"And I'm Agent Johnson!"
"And we're from the FBI!"

I made this point above, but one of the members on the team was a shapeshifter. It makes no sense for the Doctor to never even consider that she could have recorded those consent messages herself. Whether that turned out to be the case or not, the episode should have at least explored it as a red herring to sow…

I was really hoping for Saibra to turn out to be the Architect. She could have morphed into each of the other three to record their "confessions" before wiping their memories to make them think they had really agreed to the heist. I was shocked when the Doctor's initial (weak) reasoning of "we must have agreed to rob…

I'm surprised the review for The Last of the Time Lords doesn't talk more about Martha, who is probably on the screen for more time than the Doctor here. I haven't actually timed that, but she certainly gets more interesting material throughout the episode — while the Doctor is largely just sitting there in captivity…

Starz?

I was laughing practically non-stop through this episode. Archer has been nailing the cocaine plot and character development this season, but what's really astounding is that the show's joke machine has never faltered — if anything, it's gotten funnier with the change of pace.

Keep your eye out for the episodes Human Nature / The Family of Blood two weeks from now. It's another historical adventure in what should be a racist time, and I think the show treats that issue in a somewhat more appropriate manner than is done here. (Though I also feel, as I've argued elsewhere on this page, that…

Too soon.

There's a lot to be said for this point of view. Speculative fiction like Doctor Who is escapism — and people who look like Martha have just as much of a right to be entertained by stories about people who like them as do people who look like the Doctor or Rose. It's important to not blind ourselves to historical…

The Family of Blood two-parter later this season did very well, I thought, with both showing and calling out historical racism. It gets awkward when the Doctor visits a period where you'd expect that to be an issue and it goes unremarked, but I also agree with @ralphdibny:disqus down-thread that the show generally…

That gets acknowledged in-universe, too. The Doctor frequently is only able to escape from a situation because an enemy was content to let him blather on, and he or another character will sometimes even say as much.