That's just in the '50s movie though, which I very much doubt the BBC will be using as a reference.

It's not a rip-off. They are putting a novel twist on it by replacing the computer virus with a biological virus!

I hope it is set in Victorian times. We haven't gotten a good version of that yet.

Ugh. That is some poor sentence construction on my part.

They've for the "Kill the Moon" guy doing War of the Worlds which was terrible. I guess it is possible it will be okay though. The problem with that was the plot making no sense at all, but now he has the plot all laid out for him. I seem to remember both "Kill the Moon" and "The Zygon Inversion" having some good…

Another thing that sucks is that these genuine incidents getting a lot of attention is probably going to lead a trend of some assholes looking to get Internet famous by provoking situations that their friends can catch on video, making the whole situation worse.

Slavery was a thing in the Philippines until the 1800s.

I haven't had it since I was a kid in the early '80s, but I liked it better than McDonalds.

Good point. I had forgotten it wasn't just the modern day while watching that scene, and the Facebook obsession seemed odd. It makes perfect sense for 2010.

I'm glad you made it back to us.

I momentarily wondered if there was some kind of CGI aging/de-aging going on. It didn't really seem likely the show would go to so much of the budget on something like that, but it was just so uncanny.

When you put it that way, it's kind of a spin-off already.

It can be two things.

No. I did say I was completely unsurprised.

Actor presidents are better than reality show presidents.

But he said it with such gravitas!

Exactly. That's why it felt spiteful to me.

They like to poison innocent people and wear lipstick. Doesn't that make them more like Putin than Trump?

Trying but failing. The United States has a higher death rate from poisonous animals.

Good point!