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Honestly, I think parties that support it need to accept that it's not a top-of-mind issue for most voters, and focus their efforts on other priorities, while still keeping it in their platform.

I think this could work if a critical mass of people showed up and spoiled their ballots, or voted for the Rhinoceros Party or whatever.

But just staying home won't do it.

Tellar is an overseas territory - doesn't count.

I finally cut the cord this year and haven't been able to see many games, but...it's shaky. Maybe shakier than their record suggests, even.

It's petty technically-minded and not very user-friendly in my opinion, but it's a way to give them a piece of our mind.

Surely you mean Qurelane… ̄_(ツ)_/ ̄

Start looking around for a Dukat drawer. She looks lonely.

While the Tardis is “locked in events”, once the link is fully broken, I think at that point they could easily have pre-programmed the Tardis to go back in time and pick him back up,

This was definitely one of the lazier "we can't use the TARDIS because..." efforts.

"Uh, we're part of it now!"

Coming 2023

The first truly great episode of series 2, and unsurprisingly it's a Steven Moffat outing.

There's a lot of positive stuff to say here - the story structure is twisty without being convoluted, Sophia Myles is pitch-perfect as Reinette, and heck, even Ben Turner's King Louis is pretty good. And of course, the clockwork men that harvest human organs are that combination of cool-yet-terrifying-in-a-childish-sort-of-way that Moffat excels at.

Tennant is at his swashbuckling best - I've said it before, but I really enjoy him as the romantic hero. And Rose apparently got all jealousy out of her system last episode, so there's none of that hanging over our heads this time around.

Speaking of Rose, I think they hit a good balance of enthusiasm for the adventure early on in the episode, constrasted with Mickey's nerves. It reinforces my notion that "Tooth and Claw" should have come later in the season, to show an increasing disregard for the seriousness of their situations. As it is, I think that one's still a bit of an outlier.

It's a little odd that Mickey says he got a spaceship on his "first go," but also references a previous adventure with Cleopatra. Maybe this is his "first go" to the future, rather than the past? I should really check to see if he and Rose changed clothes between episodes, but...nah.

They didn't bother shoehorning a "Torchwood" reference into this one, which is probably for the best.

As far as actual news goes, this SDCC was pretty thin, to say the least.

No one can say the franchise is dead!