The Satanists appropriated Baphomet from the Gnostics

His Falstaff is magnificent.

Mocking the monsters robs them of their power

I tend to agree. There was a time when sarcasm and comedy were valid comebacks to Trump... but after last week, well, it just isn’t anymore.

I kind of liked the low tech vibe of this episode - no sci-fi gadgets (apart from the screwdriver obviously), just the Doctor saving people with common household ingredients.

I remember seeing the first one of these Adult Swim “Infomercials” - Icelandic Ultrablue, written by David Cross and H Jon Benjamin after waking up from surgery whacked out of my gourd on opiates. I became convinced that I was nodding out periodically and dreaming the weird parts. It was an incredibly disorienting…

I always wondered if Scott Adsit had anything to do with that since he was part of a similar bit on Mr Show.

I think any further into the future and you get into the temporal stuff and then it just becomes Doctor Who

Goth is always good for ambience

RT

I did.  Alia Shawkat was hilarious.  Other than that, not very memorable.

The subject of Eleanor’s fantasy VR porn sequence should have been Stone Cold Steve Austin.  Come on, writers.  Basic continuity here.

Clearly they have an anti-dinosaur agenda

Her bullshit line about blackface being okay when she was younger is bullshit.

These are the “real Americans” that conservatives are always going on about so, yeah.  Any in-depth look at them should provide at least some political context

Blocking is how characters move in a scene.

Blocking is how characters move in a scene.

Aren’t I a total mug preordering this?

“We’re here for the gangbang”

I enjoyed this. It brought to mind the early episodes of the show like “The Aztecs” or “Marco Polo”. I also liked the little flash of steel we get in JW’s Doctor when she’s dealing with the villain (“Don’t threaten me”).   I have a few minor quibbles about them getting the history wrong (although they went with the…