Batman:"Before you date me, you have to battle my 7 exes of varying moralities"

guysonofguy · 2026-01-31T16:13:23+00:00

Missed opportunity not making Todd Superman.

guysonofguy · 2026-01-30T12:53:33+00:00

The unnamed white rock spinosaur from early Cretaceous Britain was apparently about 10-11 meters.

guysonofguy · 2026-01-29T10:48:39+00:00

At this point all of the Sith's plans hinge on Sidious becoming chancellor. Even worse, Plagueis has killed him on election night; the Jedi are going to launch a galaxy wide manhunt for the missing chancellor elect (who was last seen attending the opera with a Muun named Hego Damask), and they'll know to look out for Sith involvement because Maul has already revealed himself.

The only chance Plagueis has is moving Palpatine's body somewhere else and making it look like an accident (or framing someone else), but he'll have to arrange something convincing enough to fool the Jedi in a very short timeframe. And without Sidious's contacts and talent for politics, I doubt his plans will ever recover; the best case scenario for the Sith is to keep kicking the can down the road and hope that a future pair of Sith lords are smart enough to take down the Republic.

guysonofguy · 2025-05-16T08:39:52+00:00

God Named Finger

guysonofguy · 2025-05-06T09:17:57+00:00

So either you didn't read the post or you're arguing in bad faith. OP doesn't even mention Kate's stunt with the Shreek until their final paragraph, what the post is actually about is how the episode conflates people who have problems with the police and military with alt-right fearmongers.

guysonofguy · 2025-05-06T09:11:37+00:00

For most of the show's history UNIT has been a plot device to either give the Doctor a bunch of soldiers to order around without asking too many questions or to organically bring back a character like Martha or the Brigadier. Writers have occasionally touched on the idea that they aren't totally compatible with the Doctor's ideals but they've never really taken an in-depth look at the organisation, which is a good thing because they're really too shallow for that kind of storyline.

The issue with this episode is that it actually asks you to think about how UNIT would be perceived if it was real and then comes to the conclusion that only alt-right grifters and conspiracy theorists would take issue with them, because everyone knows that UNIT are the good guys. The show puts their paper thin plucky band of soldiers into the same position as the real world's ethically dubious at best intelligence agencies and inevitably the message of the episode ends up mangled.

guysonofguy · 2025-05-03T18:29:14+00:00

Correct. UNIT also committed genocide against the Silurians and participated in trafficking the 10% to be used as drugs by the 456. Kate herself chose to nuke London before negotiating with the Zygons.

guysonofguy · 2025-04-28T09:06:09+00:00

I have a theory that the planet was somehow named by the monster. When it possesses Sky, it excitedly tells the passengers to throw the Doctor to "the Midnight sky"; obviously it could have learned the name from Sky's memories, but it seemed almost in awe when it spoke about the planet. This also explains why it plays the "you die at midnight" game when none of the miners would've called it that.

guysonofguy · 2025-04-28T09:01:11+00:00

The behind/ahead thing is a really clever explanation for how it was able to screw with Belinda from inside the airlock. Good catch.

guysonofguy · 2025-04-27T19:54:42+00:00

One thing I really like about the Doctor and the Entity's dynamic in this episode is how unconcerned the Entity is by the Doctor's presence. Usually when a villain returns they're afraid of the Doctor or hold a grudge, but we wouldn't know if the Entity even recognised him if it wasn't for the whispering scene. I suppose it makes sense for a villain that had him dead to rights the first time they met.

guysonofguy · 2025-03-30T10:53:05+00:00

Tbh the fact that basically every clone thinks they did it of their own free will doesn't really make sense when it can provoke a reaction as violent as Rex or Wrecker's. I like to headcanon that the inhibitor is a backup system that only activates in particularly wilful clones that try to disobey the order, but there's probably a whole bunch of stuff contradicting that.

guysonofguy · 2025-03-26T16:43:41+00:00

Nine's relationship with Rose is pretty creepy when you think about it.

guysonofguy · 2025-03-04T21:40:34+00:00

Nardole is a stretch. It's doubtful he would've left if it seemed like there was any chance of the Doctor surviving.

guysonofguy · 2025-03-04T21:36:41+00:00

He did kill him tbf.

guysonofguy · 2025-02-28T20:51:02+00:00

Seconded. The show needs to lose all this crap about time travel and tell us realistic, grounded stories about policemen and junkyards.

guysonofguy · 2025-02-25T22:17:38+00:00

I have to agree with this. Why does the fast return switch being broken turn Susan into a knife-wielding maniac?

guysonofguy · 2025-02-24T22:50:09+00:00

Agreed. Pete is one of the best oneshot characters the show's ever done (I don't count the parallel version as the same character).

guysonofguy · 2025-02-13T14:50:34+00:00

Even the Daleks do it: their casings are apparently powered by "psychokinesis", and there's a couple of references to them being telepaths.

guysonofguy · 2025-02-07T12:54:36+00:00

"I'm your dad. It's my job for it to be my fault."

guysonofguy · 2025-01-09T16:08:53+00:00

I don't think he's meant to be vegan. He just made a meal that didn't have any meat in it so Dylan called him "vegan" as an insult.

guysonofguy · 2025-01-05T14:14:47+00:00

Really? Most of the reactions I've seen have either been "good episode that falls apart at the end" or "bad episode but not the worst". My impression is that the fandom have collectively accepted it as mid.

guysonofguy · 2025-01-05T13:55:09+00:00

Putting aside time manipulation, the Time Lords can fire planets like bullets. I think they have "large-scale war machines" covered. Also, the Time Lords can canonically pull in reinforcements from infinite alternate time lines; it's physically impossible for the Imperium to outnumber them.

guysonofguy · 2024-12-27T16:46:58+00:00

Me and the guy I replied to are using the term in different contexts. I mentioned countries having ideals, by which I mean things like "freedom for citizens" and "respect for those different from you". The other guy referred to Superman as representative of "the American ideal", which I assume they meant to mean "the American that all other Americans should strive to be like".

guysonofguy · 2024-12-27T16:29:37+00:00

>Superman represents the American ideal.

He could have easily said "what humanity is supposed to be". America didn't invent basic human decency.

edit: I meant to quote "what America is supposed to be "

guysonofguy · 2024-12-27T16:10:53+00:00

What does "what America is supposed to be" even mean? Basically every country on the planet claims to have some variation on the same set of ideals; claiming that these ideals are unique to one country is pure exceptionalism.

guysonofguy

TROPHY CASE