"I'm looking forward to seeing the Mondasian Cybermen again, because the
Cybusmen are completely and utterly rubbish, but I kind of hope they're
just presented as how our universe's Cybermen look/sound."

I thought it was just about eugenics in general but HIV makes sense in that context. (BTW how do you do spoiler tags on this site?)

Where are you getting HIV from? I'm not even sure what episode you're referring to there due to the grammar. I'd love to see your theory - knowing me I've probably missed something super obvious.

I think the point was that it leaves you unsure whether he really deserves it - they tried to make him sympathetic enough that you would still sorta care about him even though he was a pedo. It was meant to make you think about how much easier it is to judge people when you dehumanize them and just think of them as…

I'm pretty sure they didn't actually know that the phone interference would make that happen.

This might be a stretch, but I kinda feel like Cooper would be the kinda guy to make a stupid inaccurate reference like that. It sorta fits his character IMO. (Also sorry for overusing kinda and sorta lol)

In case you didn't know Cooper is played by Kurt Russell's son, so that's probably where that came from.

He saw a poster of the game designer earlier in the episode, so that's how he knew what he looked like. Also they never actually said what the machine did in "real life" (i.e. that it simulated your fears) - I think it was programmed to simulate what the user's brain was expecting to happen and the "simulating your…

IIRC it's actually the same flash drive which is shown in this ep with the Seagate files on it (althought I'm not sure if I'm remembering that right)