What do you think this show is about, thematically? I'm genuinely curious. I feel like you're watching a different show than most of the people here.

Also, some questions that are getting you in trouble here. Are "traditionally masculine" men more typically straight than "traditionally feminine" ones? (I might have a…

Whoa, now—ease off. I was polite and said I didn't think that was your intent. In fact, I tried to be extremely polite throughout, despite being bothered by your comment.

I'm going to rebut and repeat: I'm tired of the notion that you have to be writing a "social-pioneering type of show" (whatever that means—are…

I'm tempted to call homophobe, but I don't think that's your intent. As a dude who knows a lot of fucking tough and masculine gay dudes, it's easy to forget how ingrained the cultural connection between masculinity and heterosexuality is for most people—you may have a point that it could read as patronizing. That…

They're both great. Hopefully we keep getting Cap2/GotG/Avengers quality, and the Thor-IM2 stuff is behind them. (I'm also in the camp that says that Thor 2 was pretty bad, on balance.)

Yes, because people who are marginalized by a culture won't notice it if you don't label it! Everything will be fine as long as you pretend that everything is fine. There's no benefit to giving people a place to feel explicitly safe and comfortable. On an unrelated note, people who speak out against racism are the…

I guess I don't disagree.

Don't hold your breath. ;) I didn't love the DT specials, but I liked the idea that he'd become sort of an unlikeable idiot tyrant. As much as RTD seemed to the idea of a squishy human-loving emotional doctor, it seemed fitting to investigate how problematic that can be for a character like that. The setup that 10 was…

I agree. Like, 2/3 of the episode was amazing. I did think that Dobby Doctor was some solid CG work for DW, but the "power of love" ending is something that writers should be banned from using forever until the end of all time.

The irony is, I have no idea whether or not you're being sarcastic.

I would personally be, um, fine with this costume. At all times. For whoever wants to wear it, really.

How did you feel about the Saxon/Martha season? I thought that was a relatively efficient payoff of the arc story. Actually, S1's Bad Wolf payoff was pretty logical too, as Doctor Who plots go.

To be fair to you, sarcasm can be hard to pick up in print. But yeah, that was sarcasm.

No, not Barker. That man is dead. It's Todd now!

Actually I watched the episode in that two-day span, so you don't need to feel guilty!

Well I didn't know that at that point. He'll always be alive in slashfic. And the brojen Tumblr tag. http://pembroke.tumblr.com/…

Aaaaaand they fake a lot of the forest stuff anyway, because real forests are a pain to shoot in.

My favorite one was the episode where Walt is spinning the gun on the glass table on his patio…they built a rig to stop the gun in just the right spot, but it was too hard to airbrush out after the fact and they ended up making a CG table and gun anyway.

That's a fair point, but real-world elements used in compositing are generally referred to as "practical elements." Companies which supply effects like fire, water, and bullet hits shot against green are referred to as "practical effects houses." In this case, it's a helpful distinction from fully CG characters.…

That whole album was actually pretty damn great. The insanely creepy Jim Jones song still makes my skin crawl.