I know - but there's so many of these comments, not just for this show, but every time a character in a horror show doesn't act like they're aware that they're in a horror show. And a good chunk of those seem like they AREN'T joking.

Well firstly there's nil chance of the CDC operating as an isolated unit in an underground base, cut off from contact. They'd need a line to the executive and the judiciary (for warrants, orders to turn over material/research, etc). But also, think of the practicality - viral research isn't exactly a mobile hobby.…

Serious? If you found a coffin with soil at work, you'd leap to vampires? You'd assume that vampires are real BEFORE assuming that it's a hoax?

CDC gets to call dibs on pretty much ANYTHING once they've been assigned to an outbreak. They absolutely get to insist on having authority over a murder scene, if it's relevant to their investigation - I don't think the police or the FBI even have a mechanism for appealing it.

I read that as "Penises don't have any moustaches".

Of course, there's some wonderful dick-free recipes if you want to make a pussy that's a total stranger.

Maybe they can please everyone by having a cross between Thor and Masters of the Universe (except, to avoid misogyny, Thor's female form just has different abilities, instead of being weaker).

A little late by that point, don't you think?

Okay, but you might want to keep in mind that women are more likely, in general, to blame the victim of a sexual assault, especially when (as is the case in most rapes) the victim was drunk and 'known to / in a relationship with' the perpetrator.

Other way around. Economic coercion isn't legally rape (most financial contracts, and all employment contracts, are the result of consent obtained via economic coercion), and whilst it's morally dubious, it's worth noting that pretty much ALL menial employment involves the use of economic coercion to exploit someone's…

Excuse me? Maybe not in your tinpot republic, wherever that U.S.of.A. place is located, but as a fellow criminal lawyer here in Australia, I can assure you that in Australia, the UK and Canada, it most certainly IS a crime.

His aunts warned Ms Chumley that if she named her son Fucking, people might not get the obscure literary reference, but she just had to insist on making it his middle name.

"The show is populated with a laundry list of thinly realized tropes: the
protagonist who’s great at his job but just can’t manage his personal
life; the co-worker who pines for him; the old man uncertain about
facing down an ancient foe; another old man selling his soul for a
chance at immortality."

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Thing is, they could have worked in a 'realistic' justification for the characters not struggling for rent money, very very easily. A hellmouth, combined with routine vampire massacres, would be one hell of a drag upon property prices. Factor in the regular stream of rental properties becoming unexpectedly vacant due…

Angel addresses the payment issue in season 2, when Angel goes emo and pisses everyone else off, leading to the other characters doing the 'Angel Investigations' without him. After their first 'Angel Investigations without Angel' case, Wesley, Cordelia and Gunn all have a big 'OH MY GOD WE ACTUALLY GOT PAID THIS…

I think this is partly why Clara's characterisation jars (secondary to the lack of showrunner oversight, with each writer seemingly giving their own independent characterisation, resulting in her having no defining qualities other than 'spunky sexy sidekick' - Moffat is an excellent writer, but aside from the…

Also benefits tremendously from having the Lalla Ward incarnation of Romana. I always felt that the show 'describes' Mary Tamm's version as a match for the Doctor in intelligence, but doesn't actually portray her as such - she often ends up as a Damsel in Distress, and Tamm's performance leans more towards 'spoiled…

I understand your point, and I was mainly just emphasising that the classic series was many leagues darker than the modern one, and 'back to basics' doesn't imply lighter in this show's case. I'd like to see another go at the 'dark doctor' at some stage, mainly because of how McCoy's fantastic 2nd year as the 'dark…

Yep, I'm with some back-to-basics ultra-dark gothic horror Doctor Who storytelling, in the styles of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 7th Doctors. I'm all up for some 'Doctor as the prattish sort-of-villain' of the 1st Doctor as well, but I'm not sure that modern audiences will warm up to a Doctor that laughs with glee when he…