Given the number of English-legales-illiterate people victimized by illegally deceitful real estate sub-prime mortgage brokerage in the US a decade ago, you might want to choose a different example.

Wow! I've actually heard someone besides myself reference "The Satan Pit" dyptich favorably! Yet that episode knocked faith on its ass, so maybe that's why. I thought the Toby transform was amazingly creepy & awesome, in an Abulafian way. Yet killing off the "young hot woman" first still rankles a bit. Kind of like…

People fear exposing the public dialogue to those parts of the body that do not publicly exist; unfortunately, that attitude is behind the terribly low percentage of rapes that are actually reported, and rapists who are actually prosecuted. It's in the same bin as domestic violence when it comes to public discussion,…

"Kill the Moon" was no abortion metaphor, it was an abortion scenario unconnected to humanity. It didn't involve human abortion, but the "abortion-at-the-point-of-birth" of an alien creature with the ability to kill the planet and us, whether it might or might not choose to do so. Since the same conditional cannot be…

In context, the typical actions of The Master/Mistress are far, far worse than a story about rape would be. As humans, we just don't seem to recognize fictional crimes against humanity as something with the same level of seriousness as a single human's fictional violation. And that's supremely bad. The original Alien…

One day, Marcus, the Doctor'll be blown to bits & each bit will regenerate into a new Doctor. It's the show's logic since at least Tennant's run. And somehow, various plot-holes will be aligned to preserve the real Doctor, off the others, and raise no moral objections. Magick!

True, but plot holes seem to happen in EVERY Doctor Who episode. Not that that'll make me stop watching, but sometimes no effort is even made to eliminate them (one prime example: The Doctor, Clara, et al. returning to a beautiful calm beach in "Kill the Moon," when by all reports the heavier moon, raising Tsunamis…

But sometimes (e.g. "Let's Kill Hitler") the Doctor cannot regenerate from a death. There are no guarantees in life (as much as Doctor Who denies that obvious statement, likely to avoid burgeoning child-watchers with life's hardass truths).

Allowing yourself to represent the human race, even if the situation seems ridiculous & the bargain offered meaningless, is a situation that can lead to a de facto situation in reality when you're playing by the rules of a race whose power you do not know. This is explored deeply in the famous SF novelette "Bernie…

The situation kind of revisits that at the end of either "Spiral" or "loop" in Suzuki's "Ring" stories, but with faith replacing love. Amen for "holy" wars — they leave "holey" plots.

The concepts "American" and "cheese" only work together if one has neither had nor heard of French, Italian, Swiss, Dutch, or English varietals of the substance.

Now, now — remember that the drop of the pound had nothing to do with Brexit…>_<

Control-shift/+ (my eyes are terrible)

Because when all is said, he's The Doctor, the only Doctor we're getting, I would think. & then, at least his "fightin' hand" is easier to take than is than Chinny's petulance. (Though neither one measures up to the smoothness of The Northern Doctor, in my estimation.)

Finally! An intelligent and articulate review, and very much appreciated given today's mass illiteracy disguised as webchat. One point, however — calling "James Cameron’s Aliens…the series’ high point and a gold standard for sci-fi action" is the most depressingly off-base analysis I've come across in any…