This is one of a couple of issues people complained about from TOS that TNG addressed. The other was “The captain is too valuable to go on away missions.”.

Good. When they brought the show back with #9 I was overjoyed. No Time Lords, No Daleks, a new start, a universe of new stuff.

I was in high school in the seventies. Just an average guy. But I never tried anything like that and if I’d had it described to me would, at that age, had no trouble recognizing attempted rape.

Glad to hear your moving in. Be sure to visit. We’re the family living in the office furniture section.

Amen! You have spoken my deepest thoughts.

Yes.

Indiana Jones 5 has been delayed for a serious rewrite.

Well then, I assume that means they’ve shut down their entire operation, closed the pavilion to all rentals of any sort and will not do any business except simple restauranting.

Early superheroes were based on previous figures: swashbucklers, circus strongmen, musketeers. All of them wore capes. Very dramatic. But trapeze artists and strongmen, who would enter with a cape, would always take it off before performing. No trapeze artist would take to the air with a cape. It would flap about…

“By and large, it’s made by people who for the most part are only interested in saying things they already know, for people who basically want to hear what they already believe.”

Which raises a point I’ve overlooked far too often in human affairs: it’s not the thing, it’s what the thing symbolizes. Alan Watts wrote an article on that once, pointing out that we aren’t really materialistic since we don’t value things in and of themselves (food, sex, money), but for what they symbolize and the…

What did you expect ? It’s on one of the broadcast Big 3, home of TV for old-people. Plus, they’re even copying from “Harsh Realm”. Anyone remember “Harsh Realm”?

That’s not the problem. It is said, “Women don’t dress for men, they dress for other women.”. Maybe true, maybe not. But men date for other men. These clowns aren’t pissed that they aren’t getting laid, but that they aren’t getting laid and worshipped publicly by “hot” women in a way that will give them status with…

Hadn’t thought of that. I think you’re right.

I’ve been waiting for him to begin the inevitable crash-and-burn. Used to be it took some analysis to catch his bullshit, now that he’s got fame and support, he’s starting to be less subtle. I.e., he’s speaking his truth.

Welcome to White Male Culture. From slavery to capitalism to sex to imperialism, it’s always been: “Give me what I want or I will kill you.”

Maybe sex robots are the answer ? I can’t see any woman wanting to have anything to do with these clowns (and I had these sorts of “I deserve” feelings when I was younger). As for sex workers . . . I can imagine their response: “There’s not enough money in the world.”

Hey, nothing new here. When I was in college, this was the message of George Gilder and his book “Sexual Suicide” (also published as “Men and Marriage”). His men’s rights rhetoric was identical and he attracted the same group of young white men looking for meaning and justification for what they already wanted to do.…

Still angers me to this day. When Doctor 9 came in with the reboot, he was a tragic figure: the last of the Time Lords (whom he had killed) and committer of genocide (against the Daleks). Made him an especially strong character. With Day of the Doctor, they retcon all that away. Gallifrey was simply moved and the…

Right on target. I like this show and find it’s only problem the ‘prequelness’. A marketing decision indeed. And a stupid one.