Clara: We still don't know where we are.
Doctor: Indo-Japanese. 38th century.
Clara: 38th century?
Doctor: Tuesday. After the Great Catastrophe, there was a tectonic realignment. India and Japan they sort of merged.

You got me Doctor. "None of this makes any sense" was my takeaway too.

You're not missing too much.

All three of them were killing Ghosts as far as I remember. Arrow to the heart and such. Thea has discovered the secret to satiating her blood lust and not getting any grief about it - Kill in a group fight and do it quietly; if nobody sees you going berserk, nobody will bug you.

Now everyone has a love interest *except* Laurel. I thank the writers for this - really don't want any more Laurel scenes.

You're making me miss Moira even more.

Yes, but she's bored and she has bit of a death-wish.

"Huge control freak" came out of nowhere. Maybe the Clara from Asylum of the Daleks had some shades of that, but none in the current one.

That's right. I didn't make the connection with The Beast Below. There, the Doctor didn't choose to teach humanity a lesson by withholding information at the time of imminent destruction.

*easier to latch on to than saying the messed-up ethics made it unsatisfying and very un-Doctor Who.

But they didn't try to explain the tides thing, right? "Bigger on the inside" gets the hand-wavy extra dimensions explanation.

But the episode basically said: Don't make any bad choices of the bad choices in front of you, and trust that things will work out for the best.

That's what I assumed too. The survivor was human, but now there's a Zygon Osgood too and they (again) won't tell which is which.

Zygons literally feel a spark when they meet a fellow Zygon.

Oh, yeah, that works very well. Also explains why the Doctor's ears didn't prick up at hearing that phrase.

No judgement. But can someone retcon why the city (and by extension the rallying cry for Zygons) was the same as the buttons on the box?

" He often makes similar offers (assistance and transportation) to villains, and it's not like she had much to gain from another few centuries on Earth."
Yes! He wouldn't give her an inch.

Shape-shifting as a stand-in for assimilation is a very Doctor Who thing to do.

Well, Zygon commanders dressed as 7-year olds.

The repetition of The-Doctor-is-going-to-Die! theme got tiresome for me in the first few episodes.