Totally agree except on your final 'but' since for me it's more "…and so…". 12's self-identifying as an "idiot" is him specifically denying being a monster IMO - the real monsters of human (and Who) history kill because they have some grand view of themselves or the universe and their place in it but idiots ? Well,…

This'll maybe sound a bit parochial but it hadn't occurred to me that BBC America would cut content from Doctor Who episodes (i'm in the UK).

In fact there's literally a book of contributions from various writers, celebrities etc. recounting their early memories of 'Doctor Who' called 'Behind the Sofa':

For that reason i'm actually starting to wonder if the third one is going to feature some time-travel shenanigans. Or more likely, it just won't make sense and Ridley Scott will be fine with that.

You can indeed write in a spore or pathogen that gets through a suit. So why not do that ? It's got the added advantage of not making all the characters your audience is meant to be rooting for look like total idiots ;).

Yeah I don't remember the 'Alien' crew going on about it as something momentous (everything else aside, if that was humanity's very first alien contact you'd think the blue collar crew of the Nostromo would be excited about getting rich from it).

Which is itself the rhinoceri of the ocean !

True, they knew there was breathable air (you can tell that from orbit or even further off by examining the atmosphere's spectrum) and with some very basic assumptions you can work out the gravity too. IIRC the guy in 'Prometheus' knew there was breathable air too right (haven't seen it since it came out so I might be…

Hah, well i've got basically zero screenwriting experience so i'd struggle with the dialogue etc. But I do have an ounce (maybe more ;) of common sense and have travelled a bit so i'd very likely write my deep space explorer colonists as taking at least the same precautions about local flora/fauna and water purity…

Yeah, they're looking to permanently inhabit this planet and yet can't wait a couple of days to see if the weather calms down (even that ignores the fact that in reality they'd probably spend weeks in orbit surveying the surface before even launching a lander). And in this future we can build perfectly lifelike…

Kind of, yeah. Either the Xenos in the prequels are totally separate from the Xeno we see in 'Alien' (which seems unlikely) or David has a big hand in forming them into the Xenomorphs as we know them (he doesn't create them exactly so it might still be consistent with what we see in 'Prometheus' - been a while since I…

Similarly to yourself, I can't understand any reviews or discussions - including those above - which don't at least mention the deep stupidity of them landing and wandering out into an alien world without any sort of suit, respirator etc. That's terrible screenwriting to me, it immediately sets the characters up as…

The first scene with the flute was perhaps the only moment of genuine tension in the film for me. Walter is one of the few sympathetic characters (principally because he's not a complete idiot) and we know David is cuckoo for cocoa puffs - is he going to stab him in the mouth with it ? I was so sure it was coming I…

"Go on…"
- Hollywood exec with notepad

'Purrsitive', surely ?

Thanks Obama !

In fact if you want to give them the benefit of the doubt it _could_ even be really clever - Ward feeling like a shallow cookie-cutter character that doesn't ring true was deliberate because he's a cover ID(i've no idea if the creative team intended it all along or not BTW - Brett Dalton has said in interviews he…

Nice article. You may want to add to the Charles Lightoller entry though, particularly in light of the upcoming Christopher Nolan movie. Did you know that at the age of 66 Lightoller, along with his son and a young sea cadet, sailed his yacht, Sundowner, over the English channel as one of the "little ships" which…

Even then, most people from Scotland and Wales don't particularly mind it in my experience (_strictly_ it's unavoidably true anyway since Scotland and Wales are, y'know, on the island of Great Britain) and some are actively for it because they're pro United Kingdom.

You're not even slightly wrong. Only bigots or the profoundly ignorant think British exclusively = white.