The episode also provides a good example of what can happen if you try to change something that's a fixed point in time. Mels' attempt to kill Hitler not only resulted in Hitler being saved, but in Hitler shooting Mels as well.

"In Soviet Russia, Hitler kills you!"

tommy - brilliant catch.

Those time-traveling justice goons seem to be morons, however. They had gone through all the preparation and were THIS close to killing Hitler before they suddenly realized they were WAY TOO EARLY??

Not to mention, didn't they kill another random Nazi so they could take over his body and they were perfectly fine with that?

Well, after they miniaturized him, they ID'd him as "Erich Zimmerman, loyal member of the Nazi Party, guilty of category 3 hate crimes." I took away form that that if he was judged to be an innocent, he would have been spared not unlike Amy and Rory.

It wasn't a question of guilt or innocence. They said that they weren't trying to change history. They only wanted to make sure that bad people suffered a lot of pain. So if Erich Zimmerman had more hate crimes yet to commit (which seems likely in 1938), they could have changed history. The whole not-realizing-we're-seven-years-early thing was silly, but I don't expect much logic from Who.

"I was on my way to this gay gypsy bar mitzvah for the disabled when I suddenly thought, 'Gosh, the Third Reich's a bit rubbish, I think I'll kill The Fuhrer.'"

The whole not-realizing-we're-seven-years-early thing was silly, but I don't expect much logic from Who.

I don't expect much logic from institutionalized, bureaucratized punishment squads.

DCJ, that was my favorite line from last night, by far.

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!