Scenes from the past two episodes of the BBC’s Doctor Who seem to confirm what we’ve all suspected all along - that the Doctor uses a Mac, as seen in the screengrab above from yesterday’s show, Forest of The Dead, the second and concluding part of the Library storyline. That’s obviously the thin aluminum Mac keyboard, which was even more clearly shown in the previous episode, Silence in The Library. Logical for the flamboyant, eccentric Time Lord to be using a Mac, right?

Actually, this Mac connect is just an excuse for me to rave about the new Doctor Who episodes, which have been even more brilliant in an already bright starfield of great TV. Steven Moffat, who wrote the two-parter, will be the head writer and producer of the next season, and there isn’t any better—judging from his previous work, like last season’s episode Blink, which is about the creepiest and scariest hour of scifi TV ever made. (And I love how Brit TV bylines the episode titles in the credits, as if writers were the most important things; we never get enough credit these days.)

There’s something to be said for a sci-fi show episode that actually brought a tear to my eye—twice! The  episode also features some of the funniest lines of dialogue in recent shows. After being told the grave news that her entire existence is an imaginary Matrix-like construct, character Donna Noble goes off, incensed: “You mean this isn’t the real me? This isn’t my real body? But I’ve been dieting!”

Sorry for the tenuous Mac digression, but I couldn’t resist. Hey, who knows? Maybe we’ll find out in a future episode that the TARDIS runs on Mac OS XCVIII.