I think you could also include Season 18 as hard SF, since many of the scripts, including the E-Space Trilogy and “Logopolis,” dealt with concepts from theoretical physics, and “Logopolis” has the distinction of being one of the few episodes with no “monster” characters.

You’ve nailed it better than I put it, tbh - I was coming at it from similar lines, but you worded it far, far better.

+1 re a strong preference for the Doctor as being asexual, at least in terms of relationships with non-enhanced humans. The character is canonically multi-thousands of years old, has had numerous experiences beyond human comprehension, and (at least as an imputed/informed attribute - the writing staff often lets us…

I’d say that RTD also borrowed a lot from Buffy, especially the juxtaposition of weird/otherworldly stuff with a mundane setting and normal people. But his background is in comedy, so his strengths are in characterization and dialogue, and when he tries to go for the big SF picture it tends to fall flat. I mean, “End…

RTD has, rather unfortunately, always leaned more towards Harry Potter than Hammer Horror or hard sci-fi (i.e. Doctor Who at it’s best), where it’s all loosely strung together spectacle and wonder, where you just kind of casually toss an explanation over your shoulder as to why the baddie is suddenly turning everybody…

I have a sort of double-edged train of thought on this; I’ve never really liked the Doctor being a “romantic” figure at all - I always felt in the older days especially, there was this sense of ‘apartness’ that helped fuel the character (and made the Companion important as the lens by which to see the Doc function).…

part of his “new tradition” of “having gods at war on screen.”

The only film that ever gave me nightmares. I still moved to Sheffield some years later though.

Threads is absolute nightmare fuel.

Actually looks intriguing...

ahhhh, there it is!

Stewart Rhodes, the founder of Oathkeepers, is a former (now disbarred) attorney with a net worth estimated around $1M. He spent $20,000 of his own money to buy a small arsenal to arm the Oathkeeper “assault squad” that stormed the capitol.

“The report caught the attention of the Orange County Auto Theft Task Force, which traced the vehicle to Rodgers’ home in Costa Mesa and had it under surveillance all morning.”

A dozen cops for one stolen ca . . . Oh.

Bluey is the only show my wife and I practically beg our 4 year old to watch when we let her watch TV. The characters, music, and and writing are really amazing, and prove you don’t need a multi-billion dollar studio to make amazing content. In fact, you probably need to distance yourself from those juggernauts as…

Warren Ellis did once have xenomorphs kill off half of StormWatch (the survivors would soon go on to become The Authority). Weirdly, it was in WildCATs/Aliens, so technically it wasn’t even a StormWatch crossover.

Let me get this straight - it’s a truck - a utility vehicle associated with off-road, hauling stuff, and doing work - only you can’t get it wet, at least in direct sunlight, and you can’t go through a carwash without putting into a special mode? What happens during a rainstorm, or worse, rain in sunlight (which…

“Woke” is just a way of obscuring the epithets they really want to use behind a vague and anodyne-sounding word.

Maybe you should have R’d? Because you basically have the situation upside-down. The real issue is chud fans, not the company.

I’ve been playing 40K since 1996.