The show was created to be explicitly “secular” on the idea of the afterlife, not accepting or rejecting any particular religious viewpoint on it. So I figured that ruled out any concept of “God” (or a “Master Architect”), but also ruling out reincarnation, because that would favor eastern religions. All that being…

I would absolutely love it if they would cast a companion that wasn’t from “present-day Britain”—be that British people from the past or future, non-British people from the present or anyone from any time whose home planet isn’t Earth.

I know it’s not legal, but I really wonder if it’d be more successful if they just flat out didn’t tell you.

Yeah, I was disappointed to see them go the destruction route again so soon, but since it’s already happened, hopefully they’ll take the opportunity to make Gallifrey more interesting when they “rebuild” it again.

So Chibnall has apparently come out and said that this Doctor is not from an alternate universe, and that, by explicitly crediting her as “the Doctor,” he sees her on-par with the War Doctor.

Claritin tended to make me feel odd, whereas Allegra would work its magic on me with zero side effects.  I don’t need antihistamines all that often anymore, but they can have different effects on people.

It’s worth remembering that, up to 500 years ago, Christianity couldn’t even conceive of people living in the Southern Hemisphere. As laughable as that is for us today, the eventual discovery that people indeed have lived there for many millennia didn’t destroy Christianity—it just changed and moved on.  If we…

I mean, the mere existence of time travel would imply that nothing or nobody is ever really truly “dead.” We see this most clearly with River Song, who dies when we first meet her, but whose “past self” is essentially always out there somewhere. If the show really played fast and loose with this, it would devolve into…

As a thought experiment, I tend to think that, if an afterlife exists and it’s truly limitless, then I suspect “limits” like space and time no longer apply. The past and future are all compressed into “the present” and an incomprehensibly vast universe—and all planetary civilizations that ever existed and will ever…

Or, my personal favorite, GeoWorks Ensemble circa 1990.

David Tennant kind of cheated with his “specials” season—more like three-and-a-half seasons in his case?

At some point, we, as a society, need to stop dancing around the fact that we need to make a massive investment in electricity. The whole system is antiquated and ill-suited for the future, let alone all the pollution from old fossil fuel plants.

For whatever reason, establishment dems cling to the idea that voters want moderates

For one, reading, writing, understanding and speaking a foreign language are all separate skills—you can be excellent in one or more of these and bad in the others if you get insufficient instruction and practice. Immersion is great, because understanding and speaking tends to be the weakest links in American foreign…

American TV also has the luxury of much bigger budgets—the rest of the world just cannot compete with Hollywood money and resources. As such, short seasons and long hiatuses are not unusual in British television.

Really, I think what the show really needs is a truly fresh showrunner. Back in 2005, RTD took what was perceived to be an “old and stale” property and, for better or worse, gave it completely new life. Moffat and Chibnall have similarly been associated with Nu Who since the RTD era, and, as a result, these two have…

There’s one major thing you’ve overlooked here: language register. Yes, “alums” is bad English and even worse Latin, but this isn’t a formal setting here. Informal/conversational English and slang is entirely appropriate in this circumstance.

It’s a recruitment tactic: actual neo-Nazis and white supremacists start by pushing people online to be “edgy” and “ironic,” then bullying those who complain about it as “weak/uncool/un-manly.” From there, it’s just a matter of cranking up the rhetoric over time until you’ve created a new group of true believers.

Even if they were presently penniless, it wouldn’t take much to leverage their name/brand and royal family connections to make as much money as they want.

I suppose it all comes down to ecosystem preference—there are a lot of Android fans, after all—but I do wish Apple would set up a licensing agreement with Fossil and other quality manufacturers. Watches are different from computers and phones, open to a much wider sense of style.