SHUT UP, GRANDPA

I thought that the minds were uploaded as raw data, the cityscape around them a fabrication. They're separated from their bodies, at any rate, hence the confusion about where Danny Pink's corpse ended up…

Danny Pink's mind was most definitely uploaded to the Master's personal Matrix (the so-called "Nethersphere"), but where his body is located is anyone's guess. I'm hoping next episode will clarify where the Cybermen are getting all their bodies from; I initially assumed that they were just being teleported away a…

I thought about that too, and about how a logical storyline progression could see the Doctor knowing he has to keep the Master alive because she is the only one in our universe who knows where Gallifrey is (if she did indeed escape the pocket universe). Thus, you'd get a season-long conflict for Series 9, which would…

Yes, the Master was using a network of satellites to both obfuscate his identity (I think that if the Doctor knew to look for the Master, he would've still managed to find him, eventually) and subtly influence the populace into feeling like, gee, that Saxon guy seems swell. At any rate, I kind of miss that aspect of…

Well, you could say the same thing about Simms' Master versus the campy, mustache-twirling villain of old. We can't pretend that classic series Masters were about anything but chewing the maximum amount of scenery…

Wait, what? You complain that Davies is guilty of using the "reset button," and then in the next breath suggest that Moffat isn't as guilty of doing so? I guess I forget all of Rory's 'dramatic' deaths (I mean, the show even treated them as serious/emotional moments long after the audience stopped believing/being…

Frankly, I think it was a hastily-rewritten part originally intended to be River Song, but either Moffat couldn't get Alex Kingston back for the special, or he simply changed his mind at the last second. But she is so much like River, and the Doctor speaks to her in exactly the same way he would River, that I'm really…

"RTD-style"? Death almost never sticks during Moffat's tenure; he's far worse for pulling the old switcharoo than Davies ever was!

Of course, the difference between Dark Water and The Waters of Mars (though I kind of like the symmetry in the titles!) is that the Doctor wasn't portrayed all that sympathetically. The grief of losing so many people boiled over and he became genuinely frightening - hence the atypical reactions of the other astronauts…

Exactly. I can appreciate the theme of the Doctor trying to reconcile being an intergalactic hero with being a shitty dude in his personal life (especially since that's a little less tedious than simply asking, 'Am I a good man?'). And I can appreciate the theme of Clara becoming better and better at playing the hero…

One thing that does seem odd to me is that even if Clara is 'insane with grief,' she should have the cognizance to recognize that the Doctor is going respond very, very poorly to threats, but likely with quite a bit of sympathy if you make a steadfast, emotional plea, rooted in the knowledge that, as you say, the…

Not sure I'm on board (as usual for us!), but you definitely raise some interesting points. The only slack I'll cut Moffat is to say that most television (art in general, actually) is fairly melodramatic in the same way that the characters on Doctor Who tend to be. I do find it weird, though, how often Moffat…

"Moffat is not the comprehensive, infallible authority on the entire history of Doctor Who either, just because he's currently in charge of it."

You can tell me that the sky is green over and over and over again, but that doesn't make it true.

I think you've deeply misunderstood Alasdair's point, let alone preferences.

Yes there is. Unless you'd be okay with the Doctor suddenly not having a TARDIS next episode… because he never had a TARDIS and what are you talking about?

I made a note of it somewhere above, but the difference between this twist and previous Moffat twists is that it actually made sense. Moffat usually pulls the rug out from under viewers only because he handwaves some new information at the last moment - information that usually contradicts what we'd learned earlier.…

I hope they keep the trope Davies created where the Master is also, consciously or otherwise, trying to impress the Doctor and get him to admit that the Master is a genius. "It's good, though, isn't it? Isn't it good?"

I like to compare the Twelfth Doctor to Dr. House, but man, were it an episode of House, he'd rip into Danny for being dead-set against adventure and the unknown not for moral or philosophical reasons, but because he shot a kid, and is unable to deal with that. 'You aren't grounded, you're a shellshocked coward. And a…