That's why I said someone worthwhile, who would be able to keep more of the feel of the text. I saw the SciFi channel's version and leaving aside the liberties it took with the work, it was just sort of a hot mess. I felt like there were three different writers in a game of "finish this story where I left off…" or…

upvoted for the rec! I'll look up that essay.

And i don't mean to be a pedantic dweeb about the copy edits. Just one of those things that those of us who write for a living notice… but also because I thought there was a word missing in one and got confused :-)

It was a sort-of joke/ sarcasm. I have read your stuff on the matter and yes, a lot of genre franchises have funky blind spots.

I can't remember if they did that to Troi in the movies, I didn't see any of them after "First Contact." But it wouldn't surprise me. And yeah, the thing that drives me batty is that a woman has to be sexually assaulted to make a Very Special Point.

Hate to be That Guy, but there's a couple of copy edit errors in this.

And he says as much in the last couple of episodes. "It made me feel alive." Even as early as season one, you see hints of this, when he nearly forces himself on his wife (while she is pregnant). She misreads him — or does she? — when she says, "I know you are angry, and scared, but that doesn't justify this kind of…

Wow, that's weird. I wonder why the scriptwriters never used it. (Maybe they didn't want the audience to forget he was a professor).

This show was always on the local UHF station in the afternoons in the 70s (it was WLVI-TV, Boston) and they showed some of the black and white episodes. They did the same for Lost in Space. At that point many people — my family included - still had black and white televisions around.

I think you hit the problem on the head. I worked at a place where I had to write 5(!) pieces in a day. The number of mistakes that crept in was ridiculous, because the auto spell/ grammar check is just not that smart. A good technique I found is to read things backwards — it helps you catch that stuff.

tho is usually ok by most lights as an abbreviation. That actually bothers me less.

You just hit on why a lot of leftists — certainly political activists I know — from that period have little use for Lennon.

Yes, that's one of my age of the Internet pet peeves. Here's others:

I don't know that it has to be such a clear dichotomy though, does it?

The mistake that a lot of people make is assuming that women and minorities in television —especially in the UK and US - operate as some kind of equal and opposite spheres. If all opportunities were the same you would be correct in assuming it didn't matter. But it does.

I didn't hate Rose — I thought she developed much better than Clara, who became a walking talking plot device. I felt bad for Coleman — she was given some pretty terrible writing.

Thanks. I worked in London for some time. I did get to know a bit of
the regional sounds, but I was never able to decipher them all. And
there's a peculiarly British lilt to the way people from non-English
speaking countries who learned most of their English from Brits sounded, to confuse things even further for this…

Funny enough, watching this episode made m want Christopher Eccleston to stay on (I know, I know). But dammit, I keep coming back to the idea that another season's worth was still in it for stories of his Doctor, and I guess I just liked the way he approached it so much.

Becoming a Marxist doesn't by itself make you less hostile. But again, just going from the quotes above, it sounds like he is becoming less hostile, not more. He says his mind was changed by becoming a Marxist, it sounded like he was referring to that.

Are you saying that you're not sorry he's dead? The quotes you have here show a guy who was pretty hostile and grew away from it (becoming a Marxist in this sense). It's not unlike the evolution of Malcolm X. And honestly, I can't say that I blame any black person — heck, any person of color — for being a bit angry,…