The short boot-camp sketch was probably my favorite. It was just long enough to make its comedic strike and bow, and it used the very familiar call-and-response bootcamp jogging trope pretty much perfectly.

I never really considered that aspect, but it does seem true. Donna and Rory, especially, challenged their respective Doctors, because they challenged the Doctor's preconceptions about humanity. Donna is forever my favorite, because she didn't just accept what 10 said, she changed his mind for better or for worse.

If you think about it, we have more of a backstory of Courtney than Clara. We know her parents, her home-life, her school life already. With Clara, we had none of it (since she was that mystery girl who kept helping the Doctor).

I think Clara's origin as a companion was the biggest detriment to her character-building. She was introduced mysteriously, because her role in the wibbly wobbly saving of the Doctor later on in the series required it to be mysterious.

So glad they kept Mooney and Bennett for their pre-recorded segments. Sometimes, though, they seem to cut the best pre-recorded segments before air (like the Zoom! behind-the-show documentary spoof).

The storm is a decent excuse to break in, but you'd think supposedly the most SECURE bank in the universe would protect against a solar storm, even a major one.

I thought the identity of the Architect was fairly obvious, but for not-so-obvious reasons. I figured the phone call was the Doctor, as the TARDIS somehow got locked in a vault in the most secure bank in the universe.

I'm glad they poked fun at that; the red jacket lining rides right on the boundary between the two.

This episode reminded me of why I liked Moffat as a writer, not a show-runner. He's great at one-offs, but as a show-runner he has a tendency to make the Doctor "Look how clever I am, I can fix any problem without any consequence." At least that's how it felt with 11.

What bothered me most about Clara, is that for the past year or so that she's been the companion, she never really had a strong personality. Certainly not one that stood out like Amy, Rory, Donna, or Rose. It's something you notice even more when someone in a review points it out. I do like that she was struggling to…

If I told you, it wouldn't be a secret anymore would it?

A lesser show would have probably asked her where she was from first, and then assigned him a Brooklyn accent purely for comedy. While there is the possibility it happened this way, I like to believe that it was entirely organic, yet another happy accident.

"Where in Brooklyn are you from?"

It'll never work, Fry. You're a man, I'm a woman. We're just too different.

"Can even be humorous on occasion." I think we found the tagline for his next standup special.

Royals is one of my least favorites from Pure Heroin. The rest of the album is actually pretty damn good. It's the album my teenage angst years should have had.

Old lady head is the best. They can take out their teeth.

Netflix, I'd argue, is a huge part of the equation. I wouldn't have watched Dr. Who if one of my friends hadn't recommended I watch it (and let me use their Netflix account to do so).

@Midnight is good DESPITE Chris Hardwick. It'd be better if they had a good comedian at the helm (like 8 out of 10 cats or QI). I watch it for the panelists and suffer through the "points!" and god-awful attempts at impressions.

Since the rules vary by culture and region, it's probably at least one of those games somewhere in the Avatar world.