I think you are spending an absurd amount of time hanging out on a message board shitting on something that's making people happy.

So if the 12th Doctor, a man, is becoming the 13th Doctor, a woman, doesn't that mean The Doctor is also transgender?

The fans don't appear to be forcing them to rush in anyway. Dam Harmon and Justin Roiland still have total control over the production schedule, and there's no indication at all that the fandom has had any impact on the show other than letting Harmon and Roiland know their creation is loved. I don't see the harm.

Rezeya Montecore, I feel like that's true of ever online comment ever.

I have a theory about fandom serving as somewhat of a replacement for religion.

Thing is, the speed at which the meter spins isn't even a remotely consistent measurement. Various power companies set it at various speeds depending on what they want. If power is rare and they want to encourage conservation, they'll make it spin fast in order to make you think you're taking in too much power. If…

I'm not trying to be flippant here, but "spinning really fast" isn't a very precise measurement. Do you remember how many kilowatt hours you were consuming in a day, according to the meter?

The electric meter will always spin, at least a little bit, because there's always some amount of power going into your house, that's the nature of an electric circuit. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to turn things back on.

No reason to be sad. Everyone dies sometime, and he lived better and had more of an impact than most of us.

She very likely has far more damage than a broken arm, that's just the most visible thing.

That's a pretty arbitrary definition for what is and isn't sci-fi, whether or not it's metal. The sonic screwdriver functions dramatically like a magic wand, in that it does whatever the writers want it to do, has no consistent rules, and no effort AT ALL is given to explain how it does the things it does. The idea…

*in Alan Rickman's voice*
Minors, not miners!

You've got to be kidding, right? Ultrasound machines don't reprogram computers or open doors. They detect things with sound echos. That has zero to do with anything the sonic screwdriver ever does. If I call a magic wand a super toaster, does that make it sci-fi because toasters are real?

What makes something science fiction is a basis in some kind of scientific theory. If you have a TARDIS, a sonic screwdriver, and psychic paper, and you make no effort to explain how any of that works, it's basically no different from fantasy.

From the very beginning, the show has been based around a magical phone box that zips around to any time and place at all, translates all languages perfectly, and is bigger on the inside, while absolutely no effort is made to explain any of that with science, at all.

She wouldn't HAVE to, it's just that since straight people can have children by accident and without going to the doctor (little d), it becomes more likely.

When Harriet Jones shot down the Sycorax in The Christmas Invasion, she said, "I'm sorry Doctor, we have to defend ourselves. You come and go."

You're right, I forgot. That makes it worse, though! That means left to himself, The Doctor would have both failed to stop The Daleks from taking over and died.

Okay, I think I get the miscommunication here.

Except Doctor Who is just about the most open ended show possible. Any episode can take place in any time or place, fictional or real. As a result, what's relevant to an episode is determined entirely by the story of that particular episode. Anything can be relevant to any episode, depending on what the writer chooses…