By "female Captain Marvel", you mean "Captain Marvel", right? (Actually, Feige and the yet-to-be actress have it easy. WW's coming out first, it looks like.)

I had forgotten that he also has in his corner the worst pickpocket in the history of ever who is in fact, apparently, the best pickpocket in the history of ever. She just popped into my mind with no warning, and I assume I will soon completely forget about her. That's kind of her thing, it seems.
(Now Gordon needs to…

Well I knew the connection between the names, even with the pronunciation difference, which is why it came to mind early on. But of course she turned out not to be the villain and I can't think of another significance to the name outside of possibly tying her to a general "Old World" of nature and fairies.
I had a…

The only clean, non-Lawful Stupid cop in Gotham now has as his primary contacts a rising mobster and a 12 year old boy. I think we've hit the start of the upswing.

They were there first. They weren't going to give up their spots.

Could've cut the lot of them outside Maebdbh and, sadly, Ruby, whose ditzy panic spells at least pushed things along, and lost nothing.

I don't know BritCelt names. I assumed it was a reference to Queen Mab and she'd turn out to be the villain or something. (Then again, as we've established, she is the Rani.)

No, Vanessa Redgrave is Verity Lambert.

I only watched the ep once but she seemed to be a teenager so that'd be especially weird.
The scene made me think maybe she had the same abilities as Maebhe, but unless the two of them show up again, it's to no real end, so the scene just registered as a "Well… OK then. Good for them?" to me.

Dear God in heaven, we get it. Don't think. Don't even think. Think and you'll "take messages".
Even when you're being beaten about the head with a message, never think about the exact words being said and the exact situations being presented, lest you be one of those loathsome people who takes from the writing…

In his worst moments, especially when they're pushing the "AM I A GOOD MAN?!" arc (Weren't you paying attention last season, Mr. McDoctor?), he does come off as a caricature of 1 by someone who saw Episode 1 of An Unearthly Child and never watched again in terms of "grumpiness" sometimes, but it's quite nice when he's…

"…I'm still not clear if that was ever fully resolved?"
Ironically, that WAS given to us in a throwaway line. The loose end now is what became of Eyepatch Lady in the restored timeline, unless that somehow counted, which would just be weird.

It'll turn out the Mummy was another of Missy's secretaries in an elaborate disguise.

I half-jokingly thought after seeing Courtney built up in the Doctor Who Extra for The Caretaker they would bring us full circle to the Doctor traveling with two Coal Hill teachers and a teenager. Then came the next episode (and kinda ruined it), but I still doubt the show would go past Clara/Danny at most as the…

Both the actor Frank Skinner and the character of The Doctor were no doubt thinking the same thing there: People used to come and go all willy-nilly around here, but in recent times it has to be a big ol' thing for anyone to join or leave the TARDIS crew.
Clearly it wasn't just a big ol' enough thing for the…

I do wonder if Courtney gormlessly staring offscreen and saying "OH LOOK IT LAID A NEW MOON WHILE NOBODY WAS WATCHING HOW LOVELY" will replace Sherlock's "off-switch" bit in my mind as the go-to example for how apparently writing "about the characters" requires not merely putting story second but taking story out back…

That's another thing I notice with folks like you; everyone else is always "proving your point." I guess somebody has to.

Ah, I see. Crystal clear now.

That's an odd take. People are saying what the Doctor said could be taken as racist by people who don't jump immediately to cliche lines about reading too much into things that most of us have long since figured out the actual meanings of, not that Moffat and the show itself was trying to make social commentary on……

I agree about things always saying more about the people than the thing being talked about. It's amazing how perfectly rational explanations one can find for these lines if they just dig a bit.