@starwind-hawking: Why the hell should women have to defend themselves at all? It's not their responsibility.

@Goatse Fan Fiction: As a Brit, I'd be perfectly happy to see even stricter laws on weapons. If you don't have one, you can't use one.

@sugardeath: That's a load of bull. Sorry, but it is. If you genuinely think education from an early age doesn't increase awareness and improve peoples' perceptions of others' rights, then I feel sorry for you.

@crashedpc /sarcasm: Thanks for being more restrained and eloquent than I would have been. Jesus, I really wish I hadn't gone this far through the comments.

@Porkchopsoulja: Good call.

What about the dad from The Road? It seems incredible after the soul-crushing desperation of the journey they go on that either of them would survive, but he got his son through it.

@jarsy: Oh, but it can't be sci-fi because it's literature...

@clytamnestra: I don't think there was any suggestion that white, middle-class British film makers wanted to kill George Dubya any more than 55% of white, middle-class Americans did.

@soundandfury: Very well done indeed - although it might have hit home a little too hard for many Americans.

@bluehinter: Damn, and here was me thinking it was a patented technique used by Hammer...

@Doctor_Memory: I seem to remember NPH being the nastiest of the four lead characters - yes, the others are dumb, arrogant and vapid, but he's malicious and clearly takes pleasure in screwing with both his comrades' heads and torturing the aliens.

@TheLostVikings: OK, now I'm creeped out...

@Grey_Area: Confession time: I've never seen that episode - I saw the photo in an old copy of Doctor Who weekly when I was a kid and it always struck me as a cool image.

Damn, I knew someday my secret identity would be revealed! Curse you, Kelly Faircloth!

@CodenameV: As does the Great White - or does everyone think it has receding gums?

"Lions, tigers, oh my!"

@Ursus-Veritas: I thought Simon Nye wrote Amy's Choice but this...? well, if Doctor Who was ever going to be Men Behaving Badly, then this looks like the episode where it'd happen.

@bluehinter: I always wonder exactly what it is about Who that some people actually do like.

While I'm sure it'd be a coup and she'd look great - no thanks.

@Friendly_Milk: Hey - Stonehaven's not that bad. Aberdeen, I grant you, is a craphole.