To be fair, Hocus Pocus is kind of horrifying. It starts with a little girl being murdered on screen, then her corpse just sits there in the background for the rest of the scene. And it is not a fake or anything. She is dead and stays dead. I guess it is somewhat softened in the end when we her as a bright and happy…

OR, alternatively, men begin holding other men accountable when they feel entitled to acting like shitheads to women because they don’t see them as human. Break them down psychologically to a level where they can be remolded into a more coherent human shape, or eject them out of society.

She makes a great point in saying that, to paraphrase, the only way she comes out of this as a bad role model is if she rolls over and doesn’t fight this bullshit.

I hate to repeat myself but I’m going to go ahead and copy/paste this here:

Scumbag

Yup. I don’t mind bad or not-so-good movies being remade. We didn’t need a new Robocop. A new Night of the Comet might not be bad, though. I would say it does hold up in that’s is just a fun little goofy movie with likable characters you root for, but there are certainly ways to improve upon it. See also: Ghoulies.…

That’s pretty great about Night of the Comet. That’s probably one of my all time favorite 80's post apoc movies. It’s funny because I’m about to watch it with my oldest for the first time this weekend, and she really got a kick out of the trailer when it came up on YouTube.

I think they want to reboot the franchise, but they’re gonna need a new actor. They’re gonna need a new actor to play Freddy because they’re gonna have to do eight of them. I might have one left in me… but yeah.

There’s been some speculation that Krasko is set to recur. Partially because Josh Bowman is fairly well established for being given so little to do. That’s not confirmed, but I would like it if Doctor Who introduced recurring villains who aren’t from just the old series. It would also make sense for them a) not really…

If you haven't noticed, this isn't exactly a subtle moment in history we're living in.  I have no problem with people shouting loud enough to be heard by the dipshits in the back of the class.

He was explained, he was a racist asshole. He’s the kind of person who calls the cops on people of colour going to the pool. He was the worst monster of all, the one we likely know and may even be among us here. That’s what made it work as well as it did. He’s a future Proud Boy.

A better way to frame it would have been to have the Doctor fail to make it happen on the day it happened, then have it happen the next day. Even better, the day the Doctor originally thought it happened would have been a different day. (You could also make the day they end up with the day in the history books…

I don’t agree with most of what you said here, but I get it. I think in this episode the SyFy aspects were just window dressing to tell the story. They had to walk a razor’s edge to make sure they didn’t step on, or become part of a history that didn’t feel authentic. But yet the Doctor, and from her look, reluctantly…

Robinson was terrific as Parks. I had the same fears about sidelining Parks in her own story but they handled it well. The bad guy was indeed kind of boring but that totally works here - the bad guy should be just a petty, bitter bigot in this story. Why is Ryan so hard on Graham, though?

Racism was the villain here, and that monster is still out there. I think that if you presented this episode to a US producer they would have passed, because it’s very hard to get it right, and still mostly be a kid’s show. This reminded me a lot of how well “Quantum Leap” handled this, and a few other issues.

right up with “Vincent and the Doctor”

Fine episode...right up with “Vincent and the Doctor”, which was a high point for me. The weightyness of the stakes REALLY shot up as it hit me that the threat in this episode was just another petty, ugly little racist douche-nozzle, willing to scar the lives of billions to date his hatred.

You are 100% correct, and lot of people, and I hope in the US will talk about that episode. I was worried if they were going to drop the N-word or not. But they said the word “negro” in such a way, it was nearly as terrible. I feel bad for the actors who had to play “normal” people from that era, and the hatred they…

Any fears that they were going to try and chicken out of the issues went away with that slap at the beginning of the episode. It was powerful, raw, angry and set the tone. This is not “hiding Hitler in a closet to diminish him” Doctor Who, or that episode where Ten basically handwaves Martha’s skin color as “it’ll be…

OK so tonight they did probably the best historical episode of Doctor Who ever. Any doubts I had about Doctor Who this series are completely gone! They did almost everything perfectly. They captured the look and feel of the era amazingly well. Though mentioning the Vortex manipulator does seem like a call back to some…