By the way, the downer ending would maybe work better if the final episode hadn’t started with the world’s dogs being eaten by the fish people. Gonna be hard to get anyone on board for peace when they killed everyone’s dog! (also this scene exists in order to make a racist joke? Bizarre choice)

Of course, the bizarre choice to sideline UNIT in the UNIT spinoff makes sense when this is just reheated leftovers of the Silurians and the Sea Devils. Kate can’t be the one to genocide the fish people and stick around. So instead she’s here to get progressively more unhinged but never do much

A related problem, seen especially with this show, is that either UNIT can be the Avengers Tower whiz bang technology alien fighters, or they can be a realistic organization. TWBTLATS gives us the worst of both worlds: a UNIT with magic food scanning devices but also no security on a vital mission

I wish UNIT were still ten squaddies in a van like the 70s. There’s an interesting story to be told about the military industrial complex, but then we’re back to the same problem McTighe had in Lucky Day - you can’t criticize UNIT for military overreach while simultaneously making them The Good Guys

It ends up feeling like another case of “everyone is sexy and no one is horny.” And I’m usually the one who is happy with no one being horny! But you wrote a monster fucker show and then can’t deliver

I will pay Pete McTighe actual money to never write a love scene again. His idea of sexy dialogue is apparently “the pressure of two orifices sealed together” and “I’m sort of regulating my body for you too.”

The good scene of Salt telling the humans they’ve won is then followed by a pop song montage, because there’s no time left to explain things like why Barclay is turning into a fish. Gotta show him swimming around instead. But as far as RTD endings go, better than the Reality War

Foot simply takes it as obvious that the driver should switch tracks. The question is what explains this, and why these two different moral frameworks come to their conclusions. Thus, of course, the language is “the driver switching tracks” rather than “should *you* pull the lever?”

Foot uses the tram driver as one among her examples to distinguish the positive and negative duties approach from the doctrine of double effect. It’s not an example that stands alone, nor does she present it as a problem -

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

20 years ago the Republican Party platform was misogyny, racism, and homophobia. Today the Republican Party platform is misogyny, racism, and transphobia. Who gives a damn about your self-congratulatory notion of “seriousness”?

I’m terribly sorry your brain has been cooked by the bullshit notion of civility, but the Republican Party hasn’t been serious for most of a century. The only difference now is that you can’t deny it. Well tough for you, I suppose.

Pam Whitten had guns pointed at your kids and 93% of the faculty voted against her, but sure, keep cheering for IU. Your version of IU bears no resemblance to the university.

How many millions is this coach getting, while the university shutters undergrad and graduate programs and institutes a hiring freeze because of a self-imposed deficit?

Are those one or two resolutions?