Complaining about people generalizing massively by generalizing massively. I like it!

In the Battle of Britain, trained pilots were the RAFs bottleneck. They had plenty of planes.

Justice is a dish that is best served tepid

Definitely Moffat. Likes a good rug-pull does old Moffat.

Getting so sick of the “cure is worse than the disease” trope. It permeates everything superheroish these days. Arrowverse, Marvel, DC, X-men, everything. Wish somebody would get a new idea.

Yeah, like how many themes and motifs from the Star Wars trilogy could you whistle. More than a dozen maybe. From all the DC/Marvel movies? A couple.

So we’re all just going to ignore the fact that Jesus is canon in the DC universe?

Agreed.

And Arthur C Clark is a raging homophobe

For a non-American, that seems like such a gross way to show appreciation. We don’t even have tipping in my country. We have a decent minimum wage instead.

Tell her about Flight 98.

Maybe they thought it was too on-the-nose.

Jesus Christ, Americans are so fucking puritan these days.

Cultural appropriation! Brian Cox is not an American.

Because Michael Jackson was a figure who’s public identity was somewhat absurd. That’s the joke in the casting.

It’s no worse than photos of actual Michael Jackson

John Pertwee

“It’s shocking to me personally therefore it must be wrong”

Let’s not forget Hicks and Newt, who got killed off in the opening credits.

Pobble’s not suggesting it means “a month”, just that it’s as common a word. It means “two weeks” everywhere :)