I AM TRYING TO INCORPORATE IT IN MY BRAIN. It's like, okay, if that one President was assassinated by the Master, then presumably the VP finished out his term, so if we set that basically any time prior to 2008, Obama getting elected works as long as one knows nothing whatsoever about American politics? Except for the part where THAT IS FUCKING STUPID OH MY GOD LET'S GET GORDON BROWN IN HERE WHILE WE'RE AT IT AND JUST KILL ALL THE SENSE OF OTHERNESS ABOUT THE WHONIVERSE IN ONE GO.

Rusty was all, "Children of Earth was reasonably coherent and genuinely absorbing storytelling. I'd better counteract that immediately!"