NO. Society must be protected.

So you think you're schoolin' me on my Romanas, are ya?

I thought this was an overall strong episode - not quite as driven as the last one or two but still up there - yet more importantly, actually moving the main plot threads forward.

The ending was sort of fitting for a show described as the "Dark City" of anime.

The man who drew these animated Hobbits had no idea how to draw "a face".

They're beasts that must be shackled, chained, and bludgeoned into submission - without mercy or hesitation. "oh ha ha they're apes fighting for freedom" - the apes want to genocide the human race. If you don't crack that apes's skull in like a melon, he'll kill human babies. Extreminate the brutes.

The one with the one blind, white eye is "Koba" - he was in the first movie. Apparently he was put in the ape sanctuary after being badly abused at whatever backwater circus he was at - he had it far worse than most other apes, animal cruelty and all that (we've heard stories of real life animal cruelty to circus…

There is only one female Doctor, and her name is Romana.

Don't make "the Doctor" female: bring back Romana.


Or, if you *must* make a female Doctor, do it years AFTER you've reintroduced Romana. She's one of the best characters from the original run.

Eh, it wasn't too faithful to the comic, cut out too many of the more extreme "Anarchy vs Fascism" subplots....but damn it, they got the *visuals* right. Other directors might have wrecked it. It's not "Watchmen" but it's still quite pleasant.

How did they get Mitochondrial Eve wrong?

The River, Meredith, *The River*.

I started feeling better about this show once I heard that it isn't really a "Ron Moore" production of any kind. A different writer developed the idea, and another writer is the showrunner. In Moore's own words, he neither created it nor is he the showrunner.

Basically it's like when they had "Tom Clancy" books which…

As if beady-eyes locked in a death glare weren't enough as part of Zimmerman's attempt to present himself as a peaceful mild-mannered man, he now sports a militaristic buzz-cut nearly shaved head, and Una-bomber esque beard?

He's a timid coward trying to embrace a mentality of "look how hyper-masculine I am!" —…

Rob...much of this is now acknowledged by scholarship to be salacious rumor produced by political enemies, with no basis in reality. Tiberius in particular didn't have sex parties or anything of the kind - he's one of the more famous examples of the bad PR campaign by Imperial enemies.

Nero and Caligula on the other…

I've actually always hated this book art - I have my parents' old copies of the books, passed down to me. I don't hate the artist, I understand she was in a bad situation and didn't know what the books were about. Still, FUNDAMENTALLY, they don't resemble the storyline at all. Well, maybe the third one -what with…

Okay, I actually visited Pompeii two years ago, and I am a history grad student: Pompeii was never the "jewel" of the Roman empire. It was a prosperous city....possibly even well-to-do, but it was just sort of average. A city of iron and brick, but not of marble and gold.

Given that I don't remember things before 1990, I'm going to go with the 9/11 terrorist attacks. I wasn't that surprised about a black president in my lifetime, indeed I thought it would "eventually" happen. Mild surprise that it happened before I turned 30 years old, but really - that doesn't hold a candle to "9/11…

Yes, each K-9 unit actually dies - he builds new ones.