That's true, Cathy did live a happy life after she was transplanted back in time. So that's good. But still the fact that she was torn from her friends and family like that was sad :/ I guess I'm just very protective of the Ponds at this point so I will be worrying until I watch the episode (but can you blame me?).

Yes, exactly! It's so wonderful to see them actually able to be happy together without life-or-death situations. It's great to see them work. I feel like there's still that spunk that was around in Series 5, but it's transformed into something that fits a couple instead of two individuals. And it's not boring in the least, which is so amazing to see because as I said, that usually doesn't work out well on television. I wish it did, but it doesn't.

Brian is truly spectacular. He's kinda like Wilfred in that he snuck up on me and now I'm super attached to him.

And the great thing is that it completely works that the Doctor would be playing football if he were to be stuck in an extended length of linear time. Because he's just that bouncy. I suspect that, even though we didn't see it, he had a match of football with Craig off-camera just for old times' sake.