the character reiterated specific ideas from specific passages by another writer, lightly rewritten. now if he had said, in this case, "let me quote from a book by Thomas Ligotti as yet written now, in 1995" then you have quoting. but unattributed you have at least borderline plagiarism.

cutting out the terminology would not have altered the stories. unlike with *True Detective*. (some of those references — I used to know this stuff but I forget — came from Ambrose Bierce, which Chambers borrowed and HPL in turn from Chambers.)

he did not borrow that much, really. some of Chamber's terminology ("the Yellow Sign") and the concept of an evil book. or in Chamber's case, play.

this does not have to do with story. it has to do with actual words.

as other commenters have pointed out, he does not accept money for the adaptations.

yeah, like that time he peed his pants? totally the Doctor.

as I said above, the series does not, at this point, attempt to portray Earth's history accurately any more.

Karen Gillan has said she never plans on reprising Amy.

SJA made a decision to portray the historical past accurately. the parent series, as I have said here recently, increasingly portrays an ahistorical past where such things don't come up, with either the barest handwaving or none whatsoever.
an approach that I don't actually like, by the way, but one which Moffat seems…

I wouldn't call it misogyny. a truly misogynistic fan base would have had a problem with Catherine Tate as Donna, I think. (call it a Litmus test?)

the same Peter Capaldi who schemed to take over the Official Doctor Who Fan Club in the 1970s.

they sure do. I understand what people say when they mean that Clara has no personality, but the relationship more than makes up for it. honestly, with rare and honorable exceptions, companions have rarely had much of a discrete personality.

I would have liked Tennant to have played his Doctor more like John Smith from "Human Nature". not "look at me!" all the time.

same with Tom Baker, actually. by the time both actors left, they had overstayed their welcomes. (so had Ace as a companion during the wilderness years of 1990 through 1996. the spin-off media would just not let her go.) it took about ten years for me to get over the bad aftertaste and I still have trouble tolerating…

right, well, you said the "bad guys" in your original post.

feminism and "The Masque of the Red Death". switch 'em around.

Canton Delaware III had a perfectly 2011 (or whenever those episode aired) sensibility. this took me out of the story.

and yet, in the same episode, they have people suspicious of Tosh because of her skin color. inconsistency.

a regular Stepin Shootit.

well you might consider the bad guys right (or rather bad guy, singular as I remember) but the narrative does not present their actions as "invasive" and "harmful".