By that logic, keeping the Doctor a white male is fanwank to appease curmudgeons like you. Even though it's an arbitrary distinction considering how every single aspect of his biology, up to and including his brain chemistry, is rewritten every time he regenerates.

You ask what a female actor would bring to the role of the Doctor. Well, a lot, actually, because even in 2014, men and women aren't exactly on equal footing. This is why your suggestion that Wonder Woman become a man doesn't quite work: There are hardly enough awesome female characters on television, in comic books,…

No precedent?

"Anustart"

Hrm. I continue to disagree, so… fisticuffs, I guess?

Of course, it was overused like whoa. Heck, it's even played several times in The Eleventh Hour! I dunno. I obviously love it, and like to listen to The Majestic Tale of a Madman in a Box over and over, now and again. But… the way it repeatedly creeped not only into every episode, but other pieces of score as well as…

I thought it was a reference to the Chang character from the TV movie, who served as a lackey for the Master before having a heroic change of heart at the last minute. (Of course, the Master was all, 'Oh, well,' and just straight-up murdered him. One of the few good moments in that story. Shame he got to come back to…

But, yeah, I'm fairly confident the boy will forgive him (or otherwise convince him not to delete himself). I like the Danny character, but I kind of hope that Moffat sticks to his guns for once and kills off a character for real. And in the meantime, he can have Danny help (or even save the day himself) from inside…

Also, his finger was hovering over the "Record" button (well, initially, though not in the closing shot), though I'm not sure if that's significant.

Well, sure, but the dialogue seemed to imply it was what happened the last time they met. "Did you really think I wouldn't find my way back?" or something to that effect.

Also, it plays into Moffat's whole 'becoming a mother is the thing women want most in the world, and it's also the best thing in the world that they can do' trope. At least with Clara, there's some character work that makes it fit, but since it's something he's already done with Amy, River (Silence in the Library),…

The Tenth Doctor wasn't able to use his key to open the TARDIS doors after the Master padlocked 'em in Utopia. Sure, he also didn't know he could open the doors by snapping his fingers at that point, but it's not too much of a stretch to imagine that snapping his fingers would be useless if even a key wouldn't work.…

People seem to have answered your questions pretty well, but I want to add that, in terms of the Danny/Clara telephone conversation, she wanted to open with "I love you" because it's a thing people sometimes do before they come clean about something they know will upset their partner. She wants Danny to understand…

Moffat is also a bit chauvinistic, too, though, so I'm not sure it's a subject I want him to tackle. Some rabbit holes are best avoided.

Yeah, that seems fair, and a decent compromise/shout-out for Eighth Doctor fans.

One nice touch was the "LOWER COMMUNICATION BARRIER" and "RAISE COMMUNICATION BARRIER" stuff. The Daleks hate the universe so much that they essentially block all transmissions until absolutely necessary (to talk smack, of course - well, and gain intel on who the fuck is busting up their spot, ostensibly). Reminded me…

I wouldn't have worried if, as I mentioned somewhere above, Moffat hadn't already pulled that shit for real (except in reverse) with the Doctor being a Tesselecta in The Wedding of River Song. Compare how the Tesselecta in The Impossible Astronaut moves compared to the one in Let's Kill Hitler.

Oh, right; I should've remembered that.

I'm still a bit confused about how it all worked. Were they teleporting people out a fraction of a second before they died? That doesn't make sense. But just grabbing bodies doesn't make sense, either; Pink was hit by a car, and thus should have some wounds. Wasn't at least one of the other characters who turns up…

Yeah. The sadness and selflessness of Dr. Yana made his 'death' (regaining his memories) that much more tragic. And raises questions about how much of that self-loathing comes from a part of the Master he never reveals to anyone (except the Doctor, once, kinda, in The End of Time, Part II).