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“The well” is a double sequel.

I'll get even more tenuous and say that the echoes of "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit" are very strong, if only because of the "unspeakable horror at the bottom of a mining shaft" imagery.

Shaya is a Doctor stand-in

Agreed. Though I assumed her reference to "monsters" was about having grown up in some kind of war-without-end hellscape. But maybe it'll come back around.

There is a real deep genre reference to all of the episode

I don't have much to say about genre tropes, but is "State of Decay" a good one? I don't think I've heard of it.

It's so weird to hear it referred to as "Netflix series" in the American trades...

In any case, I've been meaning to check it out. The buzz has been positive, and CBC has been promoting the hell out of it.

Chelsea did an AMA with us back in the Old Place when the book came out. She seemed cool, and fairly knowledgeable about, y'know, cooking.

I'd be curious to hear how the recipes turn out for you.

I'm no expert, but I'm guessing the difference is speed and range.

These are strange times indeed.

This election was so weird in so many ways, I think it will be some time before we fully understand what it all means.

Though in “More Tribbles, More Troubles”, Starfleet had developed quintotriticale grain.

They quickly came to realize that that's too many triticales.

Also, it's annoying that they don't make their little inforgraphics clickable, so here's a direct link to that.

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That's gonna be a "no" from me, dawg.

Here's the direct link.

I'm really excited to be back, it was a fun few episodes to read for Ruby.

I can't remember, do we know for certain how many episodes she's in? Is it this one and the two-part finale?

Oh, for classic series fans we also have Paul Jericho in the episode - he played The Castellan, an officious, shady Time Lord during Peter Davison's era. He's playing a new character now, publican Alfie. Or is he? Maybe the Castellan wasn't killed in 'The Five Doctors' (1983), escaped the destruction of Gallifrey and ended up running a pub in an English village? Much better, let's go with that.

How funny would it be if this turned out to be true?

It's a weird situation. Like it or not, Polievre just achieved the highest Conservative vote share since the 1980s.

That he still lost is astonishing, and it'll be a while before anyone can sort out the path forward.

But I suspect they'll keep him around.

Yeah, they'll probably just parachute him into an Alberta riding. We're not rid of him yet.

A few scattered thoughts on this:

• The NDP are leaderless, and are therefore agendaless until they can get organized again.

• They're also probably broke, and in no position to fight another election.

• While they certainly hold a good position in the new HoC, there's bound to be some introspection about how that worked out for them last time.