Nothing, as I recall, that ever got strongly corroborated. You only get a real scandal, typically, when the people involved speak out publicly or there’s some equivalent publicized evidence. All the Trump stuff has been pretty hushed up and reduced to rumors.

My personal theory is that Simmons slashed his face on purpose. Recall he had a servant killed for being similarly marred. She went for the deep hurt, not the kill.

I actually can’t agree. It’s part of the weird hypocracy and double standards applied to sexual behavior in US culture. The exact same people who will cheer on and join in when bragging about sexual exploits and harassing behavior (mostly in private, or at least not too publicly overt) will turn around and (publicly)…

It was very difficult not to, especially as certain quirks in her word selection just sounded exactly like how Tahani would have phrased it.

I guess it does get old, but they do provide the vital perspective of a privileged class fundamentally failing to understand the effects of institutionalized discrimination.

Hey now. She is not “just a housewife”. She is a medical professional.

It can be, yes. But it changes Qui-Gon’s motivations and recontextualizes everything. The whole “chosen one” narrative either flies out the window entirely or has far less certainty to it. If you keep that in, you have to replace it with something nearly or equally laced with special significance.

Just want to focus in on one element of your post here.

Parent. Singular. Supposedly. Anakin’s daddy was the Force itself, if you believe his mother.

Not at all! In the former case they are a person with an innate talent, but otherwise is anybody or nobody. In the latter case they are fundamentally special and unique and obviously important and significant. That is a huge narrative weight that makes a big difference. It was a big factor in Qui-Gon taking Anakin to…

They cooked the heck out of it. By definition, not sashimi either.

Those limits have been expanded again and again in the modern era. Don’t think for a moment that aggressive attempts won’t be made to expand them further when particularly valuable IP becomes vulnerable again.

I admit to not being strongly familiar with Enoch, but it is my general understanding that he was a man elevated to a vantage point in heaven that was able to observe and witness the workings therein. The parallel may not be direct, but an inspiration may still be taken in whole or in part.

No. Enoch, from the Book of Enoch. It is a book of the Bible considered apocryphal by most traditions, with some exceptions.

Lest we forget his experiences with Missy, especially in the final episodes of the season, clearly opening up the possibility to him.

Likely the difficulty in interpreting your comment came down to a lack of an apostrophe in indicating a possessive. If you had written “first Doctor’s”, then it would have been clear you meant the first Doctor specifically and singular. Without that, it does ambiguously seem to refer to any number of “first Doctors”,…

I think it’s more likely that both characters were inspired from the same source material.

That would be because they’re basically all made in Canada with Canadian actors. As I understand it, Canada has laws about requiring a certain amount of Canadian-made programming on their TV, and as such there are a lot of joint Canadian/US TV projects.

You’re thinking of the PlayChoice-10, which had the actual home-version NES games in it, and you fed it quarters for play time. I remember playing Metroid on it. Not a great game to play in 5 minute bursts....

I am constantly subjected to the Hallmark Channel due to others in my household addicted to it, and I think it is much more accurate to say that they assume black people and Asians simply do not exist.