Yes, because it would have been much better to be fried by superpowered aliens with advanced technology. Yeah the lead thing was unideal, but consider the alternative.
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#2 pencils don't contain the element Pb.
And you get a link too:
Worth linking to again: lead in our cities' atmospheres probably led to the high crime rates of the 80s and 90s:
It's the difference between trying to render this world uninhabitable to hostile aliens who want to kill everyone and have the option to just leave, and murdering peaceful aliens who want nothing more than to have a safe place to live. That's a pretty big difference.
Which by the way is probably why violent crime rates spiked in cities in the 80s and 90s, and have gone way way down ever since — people stopped being brain-damaged in cities from leaded gas emissions. Now urban violent crime rates are about what they are in the country.
Funny thing about lead in the atmosphere: our high urban crime rates in the 80s and 90s were probably a result of kids hotboxing leaded gasoline fumes in the 60s and 70s and growing up into slightly brain-damaged adults. Our crime rates started plummeting in the mid 90s, and have stayed low, to the point where…
In the comics, it's always been implicit that Superman is the top dog and Supergirl is the weak imitation. I have no problem if this show challenges the assumption.
She is all kinds of nice. Sadly, being nice to Jimmy usually results in punishment.
Nacho can't fool me, he just wants more squat cobbler videos.
Knocked it out of the park.
Well I was really disappointed that we didn't get enough of Prof Yana so that looms large in my mind.
John Simms's immediate predecessor was Professor Yana, so that may not hold up.
Capaldi takes a great script and makes it even better. That's the kind of Doctor you want.
Possibly!
Wait, whose blood was that in the projector room? Was the virtual Doctor wounded at some point?
Pam Poovey as the next companion!
I can't imagine any other Doctor pulling this episode off. Not just as a matter of the Doctor's character (it helps to have an old weary Doctor), but a lesser actor than Peter Capaldi could not have done this script justice.
White guy here, with some thoughts on this. The sort of white person who sees "Get Out" is probably not a hard-core racist, and indeed may genuinely believe he or she is on your side. To what extent they are ACTUALLY on your side is another matter, and is the topic of much debate. But when it comes to very obvious…