And yet, your profound consideration not withstanding, there are ways to depict said crime in a work of fiction with thematic resonance, organic plotting, and full realized characters.

I agree with much of this. I'd also add that, for the most part, DW handwaving that element so it can get to the story it wants to tell is just fine. But I would like to suggest that a story where the Doctor and his companion actually has to deal head on with racism, sexism, etc., would be something relatively new,…

Sorta different, though, as Supes and WW have no diagetic means of changing their race. You could also argue, especially with Wonder Woman, that ethnic specificity is fairly important to the character.

Well, two examples (the only times SM has had a hand in casting the Doctor) make for lousy statistics. By all accounts, Matt Smith just came into the auditions and blew everyone away, and it sounds like Peter Capaldi was sort of specifically requested. In both of those cases, race convincingly wasn't a consideration.

"I think, Sonia, you somewhat exaggerate Will's focus on winning"

Didn't they do one after "Hits The Fan", as well? So it's not even unprecedented.

He's kind of the Platonic ideal of TGW's opposing lawyers- his quirks are pretty entertaining, but his shameless- and never unsuccessful- manipulation of the system is pretty frustrating. Whenever he turned up, you pretty well knew how the episode would end.

That being said, there might have been a more elegant way to kill him. I know that random violence happens in real life all the time, but so does a lot of other stuff that's less interesting than what TV generally shows us.

I empathize with the "wasn't there a better way?" argument, and it's going to kind of depend on where they go from here. But I'll say this: IF the Kings intend to finally cut off the love triangle, and the possibility of Will being Alicia's "safety net" if she gets sick of Peter- and I'm not saying they're doing that,…

I don't think that's always true (I think there's a few creators who, at least in their prime, excelled when they were left alone, and there's certainly plenty of examples of a creators' original vision being superior to what's on screen), but I think it's true enough that we ought to dispel the truism that…

I thought the Roy Thomas/Neil Adams run had some chops.

I think it might make Odo a more noble character if he sided with the solids for reasons besides his Bad Case of Loving You, but I also think it makes his character more interesting. After all, while he's obviously disgusted by some specific tactics from the Founders, their basic idea is that the galaxy is a horrid,…

I always think of it more as "In The Loop" is what Malcolm Tucker is doing when he's not on screen on "The Thick of It". But the bottom line is, there's no continuity between the two.

I *thought* that was the case, but couldn't entirely remember.

OTOH, amping up the role of women in super-hero stories was always a Claremont fixation, so I'm not sure you can divide that up neatly.

Are those all that great, though? Granted, I'm only familiar with the mainstream ones, but Elektra was kind of the original woman in a refrigerator, and Carrie Kelly didn't do much besides say "Yes, sir."

I also suspect that most A novels really embrace the medium, which makes their translation to screen hard.

I suspect a lot of it was Miller stopped having access to good editors. If you look at his classic stuff, it has a lot of the elements of his later stuff, but it always holds back a bit.

Hmm. I don't buy it. I keep going back to that episode where he was preparing a cross exam against Alicia. That wasn't about business in the slightest.

There's also the fact that she really was scheming to steal his clients, and got a few.