He wrote women like he wrote God: as something awe-inspiring, otherworldly, and impossible to understand.

a ”beautiful but artificial” woman

I thought Braveheart was a pretty good movie.

I think Grant Morrison said he'd be interested in writing an episode.

"Unpleasant and dispiriting" sounds like Children of Earth, yeah.

It's the same reason I address my dog as "dog", and my wife as "wife".

That's why Twelve has the same face. It doesn't explain why that jerk on Torchwood did too.

I don't recommend taking HTPC build advice from anyone who thinks Kodi and XBMC are different programs.

Seems to me that it's more about something that has happened in the past, repeatedly.

I consider the Brigadier a companion — and the best one, precisely because he wasn't in a subservient role to the Doctor and butted heads with him constantly. But the difference between his relationship with the Doctor and a typical companion's just underscores your point.

They never did get around to explaining why *he* had the same face as that guy in Pompeii too.

When Bill protests the mind wipe and says "How would you feel if someone did that to you?" and Clara's theme plays, I muttered, "We get it, show; we don't need the music cue."

Hadn't heard about that, but yeah, that is kind of creepy.

Fair enough. Your secondhand personal anecdote is as good as mine. I've never met the guy and I find it very easy to believe he behaves differently at work than he does when he's vacationing on Maui.

Kind of a mercy in both those cases, though.

I never really got the Franco hate; he's said and done some silly shit, but he's always at least seemed like a sincere and likable guy. At any rate I'm not aware of him saying the kind of awful stuff Baldwin has.

You didn't really want your nextdoor neighbor's 16-year-old learning to drive with a flying car anyway.

For certain definitions of "famous". Sadly, if you ask most people to name superhero creators, the list begins and ends with Stan Lee.

At one point you could see the part of my Netflix queue that was just me going through all the lyrics of Science Fiction, Double Feature.

I remember an interview with Frank Zappa where they asked him if he liked the kind of music that his kids listened to, and he responded that he didn't but that's okay because he's not supposed to, and his parents didn't like the music he listened to either.