so, maybe we can assume it's the production/fx department stuck in a meme, and not the writer/producer/director.

am i the only one who saw the "scary weird-mouth nurses," and thought... "Are you my mommy?"

Thus, we now know how the Universe descends into insanity.

somehow the American Revolution and U.S. Civil War were mostly overlooked.

Hey, I'm hoping to. And, similarly, it would be great to get cast members from LOTR and Hobbit.

worse yet, "Beeb on the brink: BBC chief says Coalition cuts are a disaster as he quits top job."

According to this article today in The Guardian, things are not so rosy, "TV indies 'shunning risky shows in favour of factual entertainment'." http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/sep/20/tv-indies-risky-shows-factual-entertainment?newsfeed=true

yeah, i figured it's Jackson's efforts to assure full employment for Weta Digital and his folks.

the cost of flying the cast and support may possibly exceed the BBC's budget for Who. it would be great if they did this but... money matters...

What about a massive and sustained Distributed Denial of Service attack (millions of bots, spoofing and shifting their IP addresses)? That could make the entire Internet rather unpleasant for the duration of such an attack.

"Your plastic pal who is fun to be with." — Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

slightly larger than my waistline.

i don't recall that episode, but here's what Wikipedia says for that episode... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthshock.

would it be cool if the Doctor (and TARDIS) were somehow responsible for the KT Boundary?

what if, God forbid, the fact that the universe has forgotten the Doctor leads to the Weeping Angels not knowing who he is, somehow thereby leading to the deaths of the Ponds. making the Doctor responsible for their deaths. Moffat couldn't / wouldn't do that to the kid audience, though, would he?

Excuse me, but without electricity, you wouldn't be reading this article right now. It's because your brain wouldn't work. JJ had better have a decent dodge for this.

A similar theory exists about the volcanic eruption of Santorini, and the details of the Jewish story of Passover (wherein those ten plagues are all explained). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus_Decoded

is Clara's story the mirror reverse of River Song's? where the Doctor meets her at her death, and travels back in time to find her and etc... knowing all the while how her timeline ends?

i think The Keys to Time should be on the list, as well as the E-Space Trilogy and Logopolis.

did we ever get an answer to the Doctor's question in The Eleventh Hour, "...