But people tell me I'm the crazy one for avoiding air travel.

I feel like TV characters would generally be happier if they had less sex with people they don't like very much.

One of my prized possessions is a coffee mug that was used as a prop on Homicide.

I've been through enough of these that I've stopped hoping for particular outcomes. (Though I was delighted for Capaldi when he was announced.)

YES! Thank you for remembering. I knew I was forgetting something.

Honestly, I can see Marshall being fine in the role. It's not like he really is Collin Frissell.

So Won-Ton will be the new president of Gallifrey?

It was fascinating watching how they toned down Smith's hair and made his overall look less haphazard over his three seasons and change.

Smith had done at least one other series - Political Animals, I think it was called - in a lead role.

"Sport, Sprout, remember in "Hell Bent" when the Doctor shot the general, and he regenerated from a white man to a black woman?"

Yeah, I am not about to defend Moore on that front. Or many fronts, honestly. But I have zero faith that anyone running DC is capable of enough introspection to write a comic about how they took the wrong lessons from Watchmen when they can write "OMG BATMAN V RAWSHARK!!1!" instead

The Gracie Jane character on Boston Legal almost justified the existence of Nancy Grace.

But Watchmen (or Alan Moore) didn't put a gun to Dan Didio's head and say "Hire Meltzer to write a rape comic!" or make Geoff Johns write a comic where Superboy-Prime decapitates a woman and then beats the original Superman to death. There are plenty of folks who've written good and popular comics since 1987 that…

A while back I was talking to a theologian, and she told me her research focuses on the way the gaps in Christ's biography as presented in the Gospels got filled in with all sorts of apocrypha over the years. And then I said something like "JUST LIKE THEY DO WITH SUPERHEROES!" and she was very kind and didn't at all…

I can't get past how disingenuous it is for DC to say, "Oh, all the bad stuff, that was, um, WATCHMEN'S fault, not anything we did! Dr. Manhattan is the one who said we need a series about a rape! Rorschach wrote all those comics where people get dismembered! Silk Spectre, yeah, she's the one who likes to stab…

I'm sure that's part of it — during Avalanche she started laughing and then said "I don't get it!" through the laughter.

They are incapable of joy?

The actor who plays Danny in Time Travelers turns up in Avalanche as well. Turns out he had a very long career, right up to his death in 2012. So, you know, good for him.

Fair point.

That's "El Lobo" to you.