That's a very good taxonomic point. For them to successfully interbreed, and regularly produce reproductively viable young, they must have been subspecies of Homo sapiens, not seperate species. Otherwise, the offspring would be sterile or at least limitedly reproductively successful hybrids, such as mules. This is in…

The previous Doctor Who Movie from 1996 definitely wasn't very good. It was set in SanFransico, The Doctor became half-human, there was a love story, and The Master became a terrible CGI snake that possessed people.

I just wanted to point out that Triceratops and Zuniceratops are both genus names, and in taxonomy, these should always be capitalized, and to be most correct should be given in italics, or underlined. Species names should be lower case, but also in italics or underlined: Homo sapiens. In the popular press, the…

Yeah, the church name was pretty generic, they should have just called it the First Baptist church as there seems o be one of those in every town anyway . . .

Well, the crucifix looked more Catholic than Southern Baptist (SB). However, crucifixes do occur in SB churches, especially rural backwoods ones. I think the producers chose that particular "suffering Christ" type because it plays on the "Zombie Jesus" idea - they worship a person who reportedly rose from the dead…

From what I've heard they will be completely remastering them from the original film or video, and will be re-touching all of the special effects. It's supposed to be a really state of the art job. They will be releasing a four episode special edition within a few months to show off the work being done.

Well, there's a good idea. Spinoff anyone?

That could be a right. A reference maybe to Captain Jack Harkness? He no doubt would have very interesting stag parties.

I've been wondering that myself, but I just figured out why it seems familiar. This guy knows so much about aliens, because he himself IS ONE! He gives it away because of his Centauri hair! See example at left.

Sorry, clearly you had a really bad day *virtual hug*.

If anyone is in the Seattle area today on Tuesday September 20th, you can go hear Mr. Stephenson do a reading from his latest work at 7:30pm. Seattle's paper, The Stranger, had an article about it (linked below). It seems he lives there. Here's the info:

I'm trying to remain hopeful, we have seen too little yet to despair.

Sadly, this version does not at all look like Barlowe's vision, which is my favorite too.

Perhaps "frozen" in ice isn't the correct way to think of it. This Thing possibly has assimilated many alien organisms over it's existence. It likely absorbs their genome and adds their characteristics to its own abilities. Now, possibly from the many organisms it has been, it could have acquired the ability to…

You are correct in that the events in this film occur just prior to the beginning of the John Carpenter film.

I highly agree with the recomendation by Grey_Area that anyone interested in this should read the short story "The Things" by Peter Watts. If fact I agree so much I'll provide a free link to the story on-line at Clarkesworld Magazine so you can do so:

I actually think you are correct in your interpretation of the Time Lords policing time. I think this was more or less explicitly stated in many classic episodes.

Well, to be correctly stated for Mars, he would be chained to reggolith in a submartian chamber?

This reminds me of a poem by Ogden Nash:

Keep in mind that this "circus clown" is one of the biggest internet celebrities ever, and that the site you are viewing is supported by advertising that is priced via the number of page views. It seems obvious that any such site would gladly run a story about the former, to maximize the latter.