I would like to give props to the gentleman scholar Paul Cornell, who wrote this week’s Doctor Who episode, “Human Nature.”

I was seriously about to break up with Doctor Who. We were going to have a sitdown (”Dear Doctor Who, it’s you, not me.”) to discuss how the entire season — and our more than capable new lead actress and brilliant leading man — had been squandered. About how I’d rather fucking watch Torchwood than this tripe. About how I missed Jackie Tyler at this point.

Then Paul Cornell showed up and everything went a bit lovely and good and right.