Because anything set in Britain during the Napoleonic wars that has romance in it is obviously Austen.   Probably most of the people making those comparisons haven't read a lot of Brit lit.

I love those stories a lot, and I really wasn't expecting to.

@avclub-285910f5ff9f9eddf129c46fc2bc5982:disqus   Thanks for the info!   It's weird to think how little cultural/economic effect WWI has had on the US, especially compared to you guys.  (Assuming you're British.)   A lot of American men died, sure, but I don't think it radically altered our gender makeup.   I could be…

I never made that connection before!

But is he old enough to pull it off?  ::checks Wikipedia:: oh wow, he's much older than I thought…guess it's been a while since Misfits….

If that happened I would die a happy fangirl.

That episode is legit one of my favorites.  I love it when the show doesn't take its aliens so seriously.

His attitude in interviews really makes me dislike him as a person, and it's hard for that not to color how I view his writing.

@avclub-79ba5a3224b33f694550aec4901a60ef:disqus   This, just as long as the male companion doesn't fall in love with him in order to show how LGBT+ sensitive the show can be.   I liked the Doctor and Donna as partners because you don't need romantic undertones to make a relationship interesting.   I would much rather…

@avclub-c701a997d9bef627835b036efb4eca63:disqus  Oop, didn't mean to imply that women who dress more traditionally feminine aren't cool.   I'm definitely not here for pitting women against each other, regardless of how they behave.

Missing Eccleston would be a tragedy.

I don't think Moffat would do a good job at writing Donna.  I'd rather her amazing adventures happen off-screen/in my imagination.

But Martha was openly in love with 10, and they spent ages on the Amy-Rory-11 triangle of boring.

honest question:  but this happened in the US too, at least during WWII.  Did middle-class British women also return to being frustrated housewives after the vets came home?  Or did they keep working?

yeah, Moffat has a lot of great ideas that I think he executes pretty poorly.   Even "Blink", arguably his best episode ever, has some plotholes when you start to think about it…

@avclub-c701a997d9bef627835b036efb4eca63:disqus   Zero, you'll cut yourself on his cheekbones first and not make it thru.

Look up teddy girls as well.  They're a lot cooler, because they said fuck you to fashion gender norms while developing their outsider persona.

Yeah, I'm disturbed just by reading it.

plenty of Christians support LGBT rights!  don't let homophobic blowhards prejudice you against the existence of liberal religion, which is totally a thing.

I disagree, but whatever.  They sang about teen angst because they were teenagers.  They're not anymore.