She was certainly deservedly popular with the Dads, but I also put her in my top 5 companions all time, even without the Dad-appeal.

We can agree to disagree. I enjoy the hatefulness in The Robots of Death and I'd watch The Time Monster on loop forever before I'd subject myself to another moment of the reheated Buffy bullshit that is the new series (barring Blink, which was more of a cool sci-fi short than a Doctor Who episode).

I agree and I can say I've actually passed over this one as an introduction because of the costumes. However, I actually like the costumes a lot. I just understand that they would seem silly and distracting to modern sensibilities. One must ease into the 70s BBC low-budget milieu.

The bubble-wrap monster takes on an added relevance because The Arc in Space is such a great serial to use as an introduction to the show. It's even a visual triumph 90% of the time (that is, when neither form of the monster is onscreen). I always end up explaining that bubble wrap was new and strange at the time…

I never get tired of the Doctor traveling with someone who's method is "Stab first, ask questions later." Their approaches differ so thoroughly that they make a truly bizarre pair and I love seeing people react to them. If people have trouble wrapping their heads around who the Doctor is, trying to sort out who him…

I get what they were going for with Kroll: a Lovecraftian monster on an almost inconceivably colossal scale. It seems odd that no one realized they didn't have anywhere near the budget to realize that concept non-laughably.

I especially love all the psychedelic future outfits the Second Doctor would run into. Some of those, despite being outlandish, were actually pretty cool. I also liked the running theme of the self-consciously diverse staff in future science installations. It also aided the effect you refer to, where these little…

Except she made the decision to kill her lover. A far cry from detaching oneself after the fact. Though I take your point that there was an intentional parallel, I think the contrast serves to underline both Zaheer's underlying sincerity and Kuvira's undeniable monstrosity. Between the unavoidable comparison to Kuvira…

You phrase your post as a disagreement, yet what you say is basically what I'm getting at. A personality like Bataar Jr.'s wouldn't want to murder his family because he's not a complete psychopath. He just wants their respect and approval on his terms.

There is absolutely no way they could have mentioned that they liked each other on a Nickelodeon show. I am aware that certain quarters want to push gay pairings no matter what. This doesn't seem like an example of that to me. If you can watch all of Korra and Asami's interactions this season and not see a pattern, I…

It really makes sense that someone would be a little shit, as Bataar
Jr. is, but still wouldn't want to be a party to the murder of his
family members. If his family members are dead, how can they realize how wrong they were and how shabbily they treated poor, misunderstood Bataar Jr.? Not an appealing outcome to him…

Your complete certainty that Korrasami is nonsense is ridiculous. There's been a subtle hint toward it in every single interaction between them this season. Yes, each instance would mean little on its own, but the consistency is the telling thing. And, as progressive as the showrunners have shown themselves to be, and…

A valid criticism, to be sure. But that movie still kicks ass.

In these reviews, Korra's absence from the main plot is to season 4 what Henry Rollins' voice acting was to season 3.

Hell, I almost felt like the creators had been reading these boards and it was an intentional shoutout.

That's good advice for anyone.

Thank you! Everyone is just totally glossing over this. However ineffectual Wu is, and whatever other good points she may make, this puts her squarely in evil dictator territory. I'm actually disturbed by how many people are repping team Kuvira. Yay, fascism!

I agree that they wouldn't have disrupted the ceremony. My suspension of disbelief issue was the extent to which they believed that Kuvira would step down. That one provincial governor had heard that she was going around extracting oaths of loyalty by force but Tenzin et al had no idea?

By making a positive difference in a lot of lives, yes, but no one seems to be mentioning the other key element of her plan: extracting oaths of loyalty by force. Let's not forget this element, which changes the discussion quite a bit.

Thanks for the extra resources, by the way, I'll definitely check those out when I get a chance.