Yeah, on the basis of the Next Time trailer they're going to have to come up with a really good explanation for why the Doctor didn't honor Bill telling him to save her planet and became Big Brother's mouthpiece instead. Between the cliffhanger and synopsis the Beeb's released, it sounds like they've given him a good…

He was going to be blown to bits in this case — regeneration can't repair a body that far gone.

Doesn't help that the Next Time trailer just up and reveals she effectively sold HIM out too.

Boy, won't she feel stupid next week then given what the Next Time trailer reveals!

The Radio Times wrote an article this past week bringing up the stills released from the next episode and the spoiler-tagged scene so, and between that and the official episode synopsis…yep.

Also, he was the one bright spot of "Curse of the Pink Panther". Seriously.

What a fun thread. The early years of the Eisner-Katzenberg regime at Disney were a lot of fun in many ways because along with new productions, they were experimenting with making the established characters relevant again — oh so '80s in their approaches, but often enjoyable for it. There were cringeworthy misfires…

They only switched around the late 1990s because they couldn't compete with basic cable Nickelodeon otherwise.

Early on, they only ran shows during the day, stopping at about 9 pm or so on the East coast. Later they introduced the "Disney After Dark" lineup, which didn't have anything harder than PG fare, but was still stuff adults would be interested in — the "Going Home" concert specials, "A Prairie Home Companion", and a…

Hard to believe, true. My family subscribed in 1986. But it was the best option on pay cable at the time if you wanted nothing harder than PG fare when it came to movies, and Disney stopped licensing their old or new films to other movie channels when it first arrived, so there were a lot of shows there you…

It goes all the way back to his Seventh Doctor short story "Continuity Errors", which I read back around 1997 or so. In it, the Doctor stops a university professor from giving a lecture that posits him as the Greatest Monster so that, in the future, he can acquire a book from a librarian who attended the lecture and…

While I was hoping for a more sunshiny season overall, it would have been odd to have a Doctor's final season, leading up to his regeneration, be all sunshine and rainbows…especially with this particular broody Doctor. On the other hand, the theme of how much he is willing to sacrifice for others and his regard for…

Oh, you're not alone — when I saw the episode I rather loved that ending and it does make for a logical conclusion to her side of the story. But upon reflection, it seemed the Doctor's side was underserved by it; he was the one who punched the wall for billions of years, he was the one betrayed and tortured to…

Moffat told the Radio Times that the Doctor sent Nardole to pick it up from the Library at some point just to make sure it didn't fall into the wrong hands, given that the Library is a dangerous place…

And remember, in the U.K. this is marketed as FAMILY entertainment, whereas in the U.S. it's never pushed as such. Go to Barnes and Noble and check out how even the kiddie book tie-ins are shelved in the adult sci-fi section.

Y'know, a lot of fans seem to think the show's become too glum-and-grim in the Capaldi era, and yes there's a lot of dark stuff, but Ten seems to get away with a LOT more awful things than Twelve, the man who can't do wrong OR right without other characters tearing him down. I can't help but think "Hell Bent" would…

"Hell Bent" had a great first 40 minutes but kinda whiffed the last 20, mostly by not going with the logical ending — the Doctor and Clara go back to Gallifrey, she dies. The Doctor receives forgiveness from his people and Ohila, who realize they were in the wrong too by imprisoning and torturing him to madness, to…

The Fisher King two-parter is rather meh compared to the others, but those who have positioned it as the stealth prequel to "Hell Bent" are spot on.

It was the Doctor and Clara according to Moffat. I wasn't impressed either — I liked the idea that it was just the Doctor himself, thanks to everybody treating him so badly that he wound up going rogue and fulfilling the prophecy. Failing that, although I'm okay with Missy being in the Vault it would have been…

Yeah, she's said she won't be a regular anymore but is not ruling out coming back sometime down the line.