That obviously should have said "I didn't really like it"...

Tom Baker declining to be in "The Five Doctors" as a big one for me as, otherwise, I would have had a story featuring all three of my favourite classic series Doctors (him, Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee). I would have loved to see him interact with the two of them.

I didn't really it, frankly.

I was thinking more about the attack on Earth at the end of the second season which started the arc, given that it was very clearly based on 9/11. In any event, the Suliban, though they were certainly named after the Taliban, were conceived before 9/11.

I was thinking more about the attack on Earth at the end of the second season that started the arc, considering that it's very clearly based on 9/11. In any event, the Suliban, while they were certainly named after the Taliban, were conceived before 9/11.

I was actually thinking about the use of Arabs and Arab stand-ins more broadly in fiction but I take your point and agree completely. 9/11 did not result in the creation of any of these tropes in spite of what io9 seems to be saying.

Exactamundo. "Independence Day" springs rapidly to mind. And here's an oldie but a goodie: "Planet of the Apes".

I'm surprised that the Xindi story arc from "Enterprise" is just skimmed over here as it certainly owes a lot more to 9/11 directly than anything else mentioned here with the possible exception of "Battlestar Galactica".

Surveillance and evil government stories certainly owe a lot more to "Nineteen Eighty Four" than 2001. As you said, the destruction of New York was hardly new, being one of the most famous cities with some of the most recognisable icons in the world.

Here's an oldie but a goodie: cancelling MST3K.

Sylvester McCoy is the man.

You don't mess with the all time classics. Superman's outfit is one of them.

He should really just leave his films alone once they're made.

I try not to hold that against her.

I wish I had a photo telephone. Oh wait...

I would disagree that the production values, or all of them at any rate, were worse than ever in the Sylvester McCoy era as some of the prosthetic work in stories like "Battlefield" and particularly "The Curse of Fenric" were top notch and as good as anything that you'd see in "The Next Generation" at the time. The…

My favourite is the original and the description isn't terribly far from the truth.

My favourite from Flash Gordon is "Flash, I love you but we only have 14 hours to save the Earth!"

Couldn't have put it better myself.

I believe that I speak for everyone here when I say...cool.