He's mixed race, definitely not white though.

I thought the same thing about the payoff not really being big enough. THIS is the Doctor's darkest hour? Really? I can't help but think (and hope) that the real payoff will come in the second half of the season. The River reveal in this episode was great, but the payoff for the Doctor was not there.

I have read Austen, she just doesn't appeal to me. There is nothing interesting to me about that time period or her writing. That, and I'm sick of being gawked at or yelled at when someone finds out I don't like Jane Austen, as if because I have tits I must love Jane fucking Austen. I'm not saying that she's terrible,…

Exactly.

Or if a man was raped with barbed wire rather than a woman. Why people are so okay with viewing scenes of violent rape is beyond me.

Sorry! I guess I didn't think of it as name-calling because the commenter phrased it as "maybe I'm a pretentious twit", but I'll watch it in the future.

Please don't think that I'm going to defend Twilight just because I like YA. YA books are as diverse as the regular fiction section in the store. What I took issue with was you recommending a sci-fi book as specifically for a boy, especially when you're commenting on a sci-fi site. There's no reason that you shouldn't…

Do you really think many of the women who read io9 would have chosen Austen over Hitchhiker's Guide? So good to know that because I'm a lady I should obviously enjoy pretentious chick-lit over funny, engaging sci-fi.

Dystopian is a big trend right now, but there's definitely not a lack of "light" books (for lack of a better term) being published right now. Yes, walk into the YA section of your local bookstore and you'll see a whole bunch of paranormal romance, dystopian fiction, and "issues" books front and center. But you'll also…

No, you're a pretentious twit, as people who dismiss whole genres out of hand usually are. YA is not "lit-lite" and it's definitely not passive. What do you usually read? I'll give you some YA recommendations to check out and I guarantee you'll change your mind.

Seriously. The author of the WSJ article claims that YA lit is so much darker and more disgusting than it was 30 or 40 years ago. I counter with Flowers in the Attic. That shit is more fucked-up than almost anything published today, and teenagers have been reading it for decades.

Great article, Beth! I actually just started Lauren Myracle's Shine because the WSJ article called it "lurid" and "grotesque". I can already tell you it is neither of those things. It's about friendship and acceptance and struggling to define yourself between the values you were raised with and the ones you embrace as…

Rory is human, but like Amy, he remembers the first universe before the Big Bang, so he remembers the whole time he was an auton.

OH. In that case, no, I can't answer that. He should be.

Uh, okay? Sorry, but you're pretty much always going to run into spoilers because the book has been out for four years now.

He's been in every one since Voldemort got a body, which was in 4.

Well, Voldemort is kind of cheesy. He loves doing the evil villain monologue thing. That's why it took him so long to kill Harry, he loves grandstanding.

That's in my "scariest monsters" episode, although part of what makes it so scary is that it's implied that there's nothing supernatural about him at all, and that Scully just imagined the demon horns, etc. because she was scared. That's why "Irresistible" and "Home" are my two scariest episodes.

I was shocked that "Humbug" wasn't on the list! Like "Small Potatoes", it's a great episode, but you have to admit it's a pretty ridiculous monster.

Oh, never mind, that was her at the end. I thought you meant one of the women earlier in the trailer.