One in a series of bullshit Macguffins (or Bad Wolves). But this time around, they had been suggesting that the mystery went to the heart of Doctor Who lore…the Doctor left Gallifrey because of the hybrid, which had something to do with the Master/Missy, and the Time War, and so forth…? I was expecting something…

Pretty much. I just saw the damn thing, but if I had to take a quiz on what actually happened, and why each character did what they did, I wouldn't do very well.

As long as the alien of indeterminate gender is played by a hot chick.

As I recall, some of the Peter Davison stories were kinda crappy precisely because there were too many damned companions. Team 1 has to rescue Team 2, while Team 3 looks for Team 1…it could get a little confusing.

Well, he didn't do jack-shit for Adric when he died…

Clara drove me nuts, and the Doctor's utter devotion to her made no sense to me (letting himself be tortured for 4 billions years, breaking his moral code, risking a cosmic meltdown by reviving her…Jesus! enough already!). But I thought she went out in style.

So, it turned out that "the Hybrid" mystery was a whole lot of nothing. Is the idea that the Doctor and Clara are such besties that they form a hybrid being that could blow up the universe with their love? Maybe it's this, maybe it's something else…the show doesn't seem to care one way or the other.

Didn't Leela settle down in the Gallifrey dustbowl, and if so, where the hell was she?

I got hooked on Father Ted (by the same writer), which sort of made me more accepting of the style of humor in IT Crowd.

Z Nation is kinda stupid, but TWD is kinda stupid and boring…so Z Nation wins.

I saw the IT Crowd pilot years ago and thought: this is definitely not for me. (The laugh track, the broad humor, Richard Ayoade doing an updated Urkel character…annoying.) But this year I tried again, watched the whole run, and totally loved it.

In 2015 I "discovered" a lot of old ethnic music/field recordings, through compilations from the Folkways, Rounder, Yazoo ("Secret Museum of Mankind" series), and Honest
Jon labels. Actually, I've been accumulating these comps. for a few years, but only started digging into them recently. My favorite is "Music of…

Watch out, or I'll kick your ass with the kung-fu that I think I have.

On the one hand, as you suggest, it's impossible that you would win in a confrontation with "the government," and it is therefore a stupid (and dangerous) fantasy, straight out of Red Dawn.

I'm only now seeing what I did there. I wasn't trying to be cute, honest. Oh well.

American citizens might have the right to bear arms, but they can't have the right to attack (or defend themselves against) the US government! Anymore than you have the right to run away when the cop tells you to stop. (You could argue for a natural right in both cases, but not a legal right.) This idea is totally…

Also true but insane: today, the Senate shot down a bill that would have made it harder for terror suspects to buy guns.

As a place to start, how about no one gets more than one gun? (Crazy, I know.)

Doctor Who T-shirts and knick-knacks make sense to me, but it's hard to imagine anyone going into Hot Topic and thinking, "I'm going to buy that, and wear it in public." Unless you're going to a sci-fi convention, in which case, you'd probably make your own dorky costume. I'm not opposed to it, just wondering who…

So, you're proposing that we fight the problem of people bringing their cell phones to movies by requiring that people bring their cell phones to movies.