War Zone broke my heart. I didn't love the source material, but it was solid enough, and more importantly: Ray Stevenson could have been the perfect Frank Castle. Dominic West's take shocked me since he's usually so damned good. I knew the whole thing was a wash, though, the second Castle did that trick of hanging…

They're hellbent on making new dinosaurs to take their place, though, so we need to keep educating folks.

I'm familiar. Now if we can make those politicians aware of the absurdity of the whole thing, that'd be grand.

Agreed. I included the bitching-about-parties line in there on the chance they were Dems. It seemed more concise than going into a full-fledged diatribe about how they were too busy prostrating themselves to lobbyists, working against the homeless, etc.

What a weird thing to make fun of.

You mean like regulating women's genitals and arguing about their opposing party? You'd think so, but maybe they're diversifying.

A group of senators has criticized the Golden Globes for "glamorizing" e-cigs becauseLeonardo DiCaprio was smoking one in the crowd.

In fairness, there's that weird and vocal set of fans who look at characters like the ones you listed — characters who seem likable on the surface, but are essentially awful people, terrible role models (because the role model thing comes up a lot, too) — and then defend them and their awful decisions to the grave.…

It is tied to the series finale, so it's spoilery, but not massively so. Definitely not of unrelenting importance to the story itself.

King of the trolls. Although I'd be surprised if he didn't also fancy himself a misunderstood, undervalued artiste.

Yeah, that was my interpretation based off the 2002 - 2012 date range. 'Oh, that's when people started to realize margarine wasn't the healthier alternative to butter.'

Someone responded to him with 'do you think the same thing about John Walsh?', and he responded to that, too. Ugh.

Huh. Looks like the reporter responded to The Wrap article in the comments.

Ehhhh. Depends on the perfume. Some of them burn off fast, and some people have the kind of skin chemistry which makes scents burn off fast.

Researchers analyzed 15,575 medical recordsprovided by an Los Angeles abortion clinic.

That didn't exactly have the box office success to make Matt Smith an easily-recognizable name to non-Whovians.

Consistency is key. That is the conversation-turner, right there. Use lots of adjectives.

Hm. I think I get the gist of what you're saying — Eccleston's Doctor is my Doctor, so I can appreciate that angle. In a way, though, I'm going to respectfully disagree. Eleven unarguably ran about and played silly, you're spot-on there, but he also spent loads of time pulling out the grim, serious and frequently…

I'm confused. You said Smith ruined the Doctor, but then go on to complain about Moffat as showrunner. Is it both, or what?

I really hope not. Fandom squeeing aside, I'd hope that Smith can break out of the Moffat-squeeze for a little while and continue finding other projects. It'd be nice if the larger world can discover him the way all the Whovians have.