LOL! Okay man. Thanks anyway. ;)

Why the need to be condescending and insulting when I simply asked you to explain your exposition? All I said was, that in that moment, there is no reason given for why Clara aborted the explosion against the wishes of humanity. Later on Earth, The Doctor makes a speech about how that was the right decision (and one…

Hey back at you! :) I totally enjoy debating you, man. You always bring your A-game to the mix.

Fair enough. I don't know, man. The idea of him hitting her makes me cringe. But then, so does when she threatens him. I'm not down with that type of violence being depicted, either way, from either side. But I respect your opinion if that's how you feel on it.

Because it's insulting to the real world complexities of such issues by comparing it to a fictional moral dilemma. There's no comparable mass there. You can't claim something is reductive as racism when it doesn't apply to fictional entities like aliens. I mean, you can, but it seems to be a stretch in order to make…

" The Incompetent Assassin" by Gentle Giant. Coming for Season 9!

I'm not sure I follow you. The only evidence I have for what you are saying is the episode itself, correct? So, if you are saying one thing, and I don't remember that being in the episode, and I go rewatch it and I cannot find it, is it still there? Or are you saying that you are inferring things based on the…

Yes, but if you cooked that many meals of awesome, then those complaining about that one would have to have an enormous sense of entitlement to blame you because they didn't happen to like that one….;)

I understand what you are saying. And I think we might be opposed purely on a personal taste level with some of that. And btw thanks for the coding! I didn't realize it was like UBB Code which I already know. ;)

Oh FFS man, stop comparing this to great sociopolitical complexities! Nothing is "speciesist". And you went from comparing it to slavery to now comparing it to homosexuality. NONE of these things are comparable in what you're talking about.

((Here's the thing that just kicked with me - she wants to be seen as and treated as an equal by the Doctor, but she doesn't want to actually deal with what BEING the Doctor's equal entails: being in situations like this and having to make life and death decisions that will change the course of history.))

Opinion noted. Still only yours.

Spot on. It was infantile, to say the least.

As a fellow American, I think an American getting "offended" about anything other countries say about us is pretty silly. Our rep doesn't come just from insecure third-world powers, and we're not White Knights of Justice. American exceptionalism is a myth, and I think we get our just desserts when other countries and…

Couldn't agree more. Well said.

And that's something I really truly appreciate about the Capaldi era. It's nice not see the literal wand come out all the time. But I was referring to the narrative wand for the plots. ;)

((I prefer Clara to Donna.))

((I also personally object to the idea that because she's human the fate of humanity is her responsibility. That's speciesist!))

That's your take on it, Andrew. Mine is that she couldn't handle walking in the big shoes. Guess we'll have to agree to disagree.

((That's very elitist and I think that's where we fundamentally disagree.))