Any word as to when?

That’s it? That’s the lost Time Lord? It was one minute of a bony CGI monster! Defeated with a secondhand thought, literally the secondhand to a clock! I guess I do kind of like tying how the Rani thought herself so superior to the human race but then being so unceremoniously finished in return. I don’t like how Omega was just “grr, me hungry.” I thought his main motivations was from being lonely and I think back to him trying to have the Doctor(s) stay with him.

The whole Poppy subplot kind of rubs me the wrong way. For one, there is a non-consenting aspect to it, suddenly having a hybrid child. Belinda didn’t really want for one, and it’s a bit of an “accident.” The Doctor didn’t really ask for it either. I don’t see them as a romantic pairing, and the forcing of them to be one in the Wish World was supposed to be uncomfortable, as the Doctor in this generation is supposed Gay coded (could be pan, but doesn’t matter) and the Doctor generally doesn’t romance his companions. All right, so they had a wish baby without clapping humie cheeks, that can be an interesting consequence. But then they pull the rug and make that baby just a human baby, and the manner of which this baby was placed into existence was by force much like how the secondary antagonist of the last couple episodes did to the whole world. Once again Belinda didn’t ask for this child as she has forgotten about Poppy and is disturbed at (and laughs off) the implication of having a (forgotten) child with the Doctor. It just all feels without express consent, uninvited/forced, unearned, and uncomfortable. For the other, it feels irrelevant as a consequence and forced the co-lead Belinda to basically have nothing to do. We didn’t have many moments with her having her own agency as a character all eight episodes this season and Poppy was the contrived reason she was put in a box this finale—not even a figurative box, a literal box. There could have been some sort of parallel of Belinda and Poppy being stuck in eternity in an unchanging prison like Omega, but they didn’t do something with that either.

Anyway, I was sad to see Ncuti Gatwa go. It feels so soon. He didn’t even face Daleks. He’ll probably be remembered as the one who cries every episode and was too short lived. At least he had a couple good episodes like Dot and Bubble, Lux, or 73 Yards. If they were going to bring in one of the other Doctors anyway, I’d have liked for the cameo for Matt Smith to have been extended, or at the very least do something with the bigenerated doctor too. I’m sure introducing Billie Piper is going to result in some gimmicky contrived mess.

I didn’t realize people thought twice about the Dugga Doo

It’s a little weird after so many years to see the Doctor specifically called “Doctor Who” as a name for multiple sentences.

It feels a bit longer than two years.

There’s still the “mavity” gag going on.

The whole “it’s set in Lagos” thing felt oversold as window dressing when it mostly takes place in a barbershop that could’ve been anywhere.

I didn’t realize how I missed Ruby until we checked in on her again. The Aesop of this episode was a little too hammered in though, baseball caps included.

It was hard to explain why, but it definitely had a “comic from over a decade ago” feel that I noticed before seeing the 2011 post date.

This conversation quickly switched from from etymology to entomology.

Completely hooked on: Baldur’s Gate 3.

Completely hooked on in the past tense and stopped playing: Overwatch.

Here I was thinking about how Madagascar must be smaller than I thought if it’s the same size as Ukraine. It looks so big on a map, like a quarter Australia.

I also thought Switzerland being the same size as Bhutan to be rather interesting, as they both have famous mountain ranges and tend to be a neutral while sandwiched between bigger powers.

Toxic perchlorates from Martian regolith add a certain Je ne sais quois to the smell of Asphalt, Tire particulates, and ozone.

Don’t social media prevent 13 year olds and under from signing up anyway? They ask for your age but it doesn’t seem to keep kids from lying about their age and going on facebook, instagram, twitter, TikTok, etc, regardless. That’s disregarding the idea that a child could just use their parent’s account. What’s the enforcement besides the honor system and a vague threat of being sued? I am failing to see a difference between the state of things now and what that bill wants to introduce.

Never ask a Hobbit what they got in their pocketses. Bad time will be had by all.

I’ve been catching myself calling it the activation rune instead of the power button.

Speaking of hooves, it’s funny to think how a whale is more related to a cow than a cow is a to a horse.