Holy cow — I read a great review of this past Saturday’s episode of Doctor Who on my favorite sci-fi blog, io9. It’s the penultimate episode of the season (or series, in Brit-speak). I’ll write some thoughts once this story arc is over, but in the meantime, I cannot recap the episode any better than Charlie Jane Anders. Please read:

After watching last night’s Doctor Who episode, I wished for the first time ever that Russell T. Davies would stay on to produce a fifth season of the BBC’s time-traveling adventure show. Not because I think a fifth RTD season would be good, but because I’m dying to see how he could come up with a zanier and more wanktastic final two-parter. Since each finale has to top the last, I’m guessing next year would involve a magic virus that turns everyone in the universe into a Sontaran, including Rose, and then the Cybermen from 29 different universes fight with the Gelth, with exploding ribbons! Spoilers for what actually did happen ahead.

Actually the thing that was new about last night’s “The Stolen Earth” was the feeling of being a cross-over between three different shows in the Whoniverse. It really was like reading an issue of a comic book like Final Crisis or something. Like, meanwhile at Titans HQ, the Teen Titans react to the crisis, while at the JLA Watchtower, they’re fighting Gorilla Grodd. Etc. etc. And hey, it was nice to see Luke, Gwen and Ianto finally in the Who universe proper, and vaguely interacting with the Doctor. (And maybe Gwen will get exterminated next week? We can only hope.)

Check out the rest of the review here.