And what it reminded me of was just 3M, the Scotch-tape/Post-It people (formerly Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing).

Come to think of it, in "Army of Ghosts" the other-universe Cybermen were masquerading as the beloved departed. So there could actually be a running theme going on here.

The body-related sensations could well be faked; would they know any better? It'd probably be easier than doing it for real. No information ultimately originating from the Master is credible.

I was thinking she might be the Rani, but, really, having her be the Master is better.

I recall reading something Moffat wrote a while ago in which he praised RTD's script for, I think, "Smith and Jones" as seemingly simple storytelling that actually did a number of complicated things simultaneously with great economy: introducing Martha Jones and her whole family, introducing the Doctor to her, moving…

I doubt he was even serious about visiting the afterlife; he was probably just trying to teach Clara some kind of lesson. And he wasn't going to repeat the mistake he made with Rose and her dad.

"An invading force of Cybermen is bad enough, but ones that serve at the pleasure of the Mistress? That’s an Armageddon scenario. That’s a twist worth building a cliffhanger around."

PKD's long-term amphetamine abuse (combined with some hallucinogens, but I think the amphetamines were really the main thing) probably didn't help.

…I always think of "menace of the week just vanishes, as mysteriously as it appeared" as the archetypical Space: 1999 ending.

Oh, it wasn't the only thing, trust me.

Whereas in the US, it's the thing that lets you keep buying (expensively) into your company's health insurance plan after you get laid off. (The acronym stands for Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, a Reagan-era law named after the procedural maneuver by which it got passed. The ACA probably just made it…

How did the trees grow on the ocean?

Nah, I liked "Father's Day" a lot more than "Kill the Moon." The biggest issue with it is how these Reaper things could possibly fit into Doctor Who continuity given that we never saw them before or since, but with Doctor Who I don't worry myself too badly about that. In my headcanon they're distantly related to the…

For me it really depends on what the episode seems to be trying to do. I loved the bogoscience in "Flatline", hated the bogoscience in "Kill the Moon." I think stories revolving around space shuttles and travel to the Moon register almost as mundane fiction to me, since this is real-world stuff, so I assume a higher…

Love and Monsters was the opposite of Kill the Moon: three-quarters of it was brilliant character-driven storytelling, one of the best stories ever made for the series, and then the ending was poorly-thought-out nonsense that was also disturbing in a way that I think was unintended.

Basically as long as the show stays far enough away from contact with the subject matter of hard science fiction, I'm fine with it… but when it starts messing around with real-world spaceships and near-future human space travel, the stuff that doesn't make sense is just too hard to ignore. It's as if the series had…

The visual effects in this episode were some of the best I've ever seen on Doctor Who. I wonder how much money they dumped on it?

There actually is a secondary mystery that came up in "Deep Breath": the 12th Doctor wondering why he ended up with the face he has, presumably somehow connected to the Capaldi character in "The Fires of Pompeii". But it hasn't been mentioned since.

…You know, it's odd, but even Russell T. Davies was more fastidious about researching the science facts dropped in his completely absurd episode scripts. One of the things I liked about the early episode "The End of the World" was that even though the scenario in it was flatly preposterous, he had Rose actually saying…

When this review was posted, who'd have thought we'd see a new (very short) Doctor Who episode in which the Paul McGann Doctor met the Sisterhood of Karn? (Let alone what else happens in that one…)