I'm glad we agree that you haven't had much interaction with women. I mean, it's obvious, I'm just surprised that you're that self-aware.

I dunno. I tend to get a sense that too often, female protagonists are defined by their flaws. Action heroes are not characters that handle flaws well. They chew bubble-gum, and they kick-ass, but they don't tend to emote well. I'm not going to claim that there aren't exceptions, but if one looks at action movies,…

Spoken like a man who never met a woman who could kick his ass. And that simply means you haven't met enough women.

Burned with plenty of sugar?

When I write female characters or when I deal with the real-world counterpart, I always treat them as if they were males. Thus far, it's never steered me wrong. Oddly, it's males who seem to take this amiss.

It's a great quote, don't get me wrong. But in the same film, Bill Paxton just blows away the mathematical quote-tient. Aside from that one line, Ripley doesn't have any great quotes- and she doesn't need them.

Ripley. Sorry, but it's time to state the obvious. Without Ripley, any thread on female action heroes is a fuckin' bughunt, man. Game over! Game over!

I disagree. No one would call Microsoft Flight Sim a game- and if they did, they'd be incorrect.

I'd argue that it's inaccurate to call a simulator a "game", any more than one should call a documentary film a "summer blockbuster".

I think it has less to do with "thinking before acting" and more the "spend six hours getting your team into position undetected so that the opening volley results in the entire squad being killed." Is it realistic? Certainly. Is it a good game? No.

The space-fetus in the "Nova" credits scared the bejeezus out of me.

I noticed that when I re-read my comic. I had been drinking, that's my excuse.

Adults don't generally do that. But Amy, early on, was still a very little girl. I'm sure your fiancee isn't a "kiss-o-gram" girl, either. Or a stripper. I'm assuming, anyway. Odds are in my favor.

POXA GRONCH! POXA GRONCH!

That was less "flirt" and more "panic". It made perfect sense at the time. You'll note that pretty much from that point forward, all of the sexual tension was drained out of the relationship. There ceased to be any question of who Amy was really interested in, although Rory always had a hard time measuring up to the…

What love triangle? Amy's a bit of a flirt, but she's hardly in a love triangle involving the Doctor. Rory's a bit intimidated by the Doctor- and seriously, when your new wife's best guy friend can jaunt through time and space and saves the universe every day before tea, who wouldn't be a little intimidated?

Technically, they don't need to fix it. We'd still have 200 years of the Doctor adventuring, give or take.

Oh, heck yeah. You need one with a motion sensor and sound effects. "I see you!"

Screening people based on the sex offender list is a terrible idea. The sex offender list itself is a terrible idea. A drunk moron pees in a bush, and now can no longer live within line of sight to a school? I have a rule: if you don't feel that someone is safe to be allowed to mix with the general public DO NOT LET…

If they blow up the Civic Arena to make Batman, I will be very upset. I'm still hoping they develop the building into something, not bulldoze it for a parking lot (the city's favorite plan at the moment).