Season 2 certainly began on a mindfuck note for me. I avoid spoilers so I had no advance warning of that at all.

it has more of spy-fi feel, like THE PRISONER or THE INVISIBLES comic book, than straight spy thriller.

fanon has it that Gallifreyans do not even have two hearts and that they grow one when they regenerate. (the Doctor apparently had only in one heart in First Doctor story "Inside the Spaceship" [a.k.a. "Edge of Destruction"].)

Doctor Who on television has consistently not portrayed the Cybermen very well. the final Eighth Doctor comics story The Flood I like more than any other Cyberman story. not to spoil it too much, but… oh, I don't know how to describe it without running it. just read it. RTD quite blatantly mined it for his run of the…

Kit Pedler (a medical doctor and something of a futurist) did have what we would call transhumanism in mind when he created the Cybermen. he has said as much in interviews.

yep!

I do not mind that he quoted the book. I mind that, in context, who would have thought that the scriptwriter came up with those words and ideas.

hmm. yeah. I do not like to think as characters as symbols, really. no offense but that seems to me like a bad English teacher's way of looking at literature. (again, no offense intended.)

I do not buy that the story revolved around Amy. I do think that when Amy and Rory left for good, that they should done so of their own volition, in the brilliant "The God Complex", not because of a plot contrivance. (which would have deprived us of several classic Amy-Rory stories, but oh well.)

I think that Terry Nation's estate may have a deal that they have to have a Dalek story (or a story with a Dalek appearance) every year.

"Death to the Daleks" does not get enough love. a near-classic, really. just fell through the cracks in terms of fans' appreciation, for some reason.

all the major godlike figures in the Whoniverse act like dicks, though. even the companions who get their own shows, like Sarah Jane and Jack Harkness. only moment which crossed the line for me: blowing up the Daleks with regenerative energy in "The Time of the Doctor" and a couple of Tennant's moments, like his…

what? I first got got into DOCTOR WHO in 1974(!) and had heard of a Cartmel Master Plan, of course, but had never heard of this intended ending. did Cartmel reveal this recently?

the phrases come *unattributed* from a philosophy book. in the context presented, you would have thought that they came from the scriptwriter. as I did, before I read this article.

I care about it because one writer has appropriated the works of other writers (both living and neither in the public domain) and passed it off as his own. this bothers me.

the character could have credited the ideas to Ligotti. (a bit anachronistic, since as I said, the book quoted had not come out in 1995, but he could have mentioned Ligotti's name regardless.)

but he did steal them.

the entirety of *True Detective* does not derive from the work of others. I did not mean to imply that. I mean that important exchanges of dialogue do. and, apparently, the concluding scene (surely an important scene in any work).

in the examples you gave, though, everyone knows it comes form Shakespeare.

he could have had this characters express similar sentiments without borrowing so directly.