Glendenning

Darla Hood (The Little Rascals) wondered if she had betrayed her fanbase by growing up and filling out from puberty. I agree that's a shock to go from thirty years ago Roseanne to modern-day The Conners. You find that a lot of older people react "but it can't be! It feels like yesterday!" when they are reminded that 1988 is three decades in the past.

It's just interesting that i see - on tv and film and in real life - so many cis women crack wise and ridicule cis men - justifying by saying they are "punching up" - but then i see articles wondering why guys aren't giving women's movements support the articles say they "desperately need", even though it should be obvious that insults and ridicule won't garner you much support.

Yeah. There's an interesting dilemma in scripting modern sitcoms - they want to appeal to many women by including jokes and remarks that supposedly "punch up" at men... but that upsets a lot of guys who feel that they are being attacked. It affects real life too - many women feel free to crack wise about guys and then act puzzled when a lot of guys don't give their ideas and beliefs support as a result.

Like i said, a lot of prom dresses, especially those with big skirts or underskirts, are very difficult to get off, so trying to have sex might be as difficult or as embarrassing as Felicity Shagwell and Fat Bastard.

I have never been able to understand why so many people expect to have sex after the school formal (prom) like it is something that they deserve and they are entitled to because it isn't. Socialization and the beauty it encompasses I suppose. Undeserved privilege aside, logistically it strikes me as a bad idea as well. It's a pain in the ass to get those dresses off! Why the hell would anyone have sex THEN? It sounds like a lot of effort.

Claudette Colvin was a black, unwed, teenage mother. NO WAY would she have been a sympathetic figure in the mid-fifties. Calling her the "mother of the movement" when she had no hope of Park's fame is ridiculous. It's like saying Elvis "stole" black people's music, when Elvis always acknolwedged his debt and there was no way in hell black originals songs would get radio play on white-aimed stations even if Elvis had died as a baby.

That's what upsets me about the "leave things to local activists" view. Leaving people to their own devices doesn't work to well when they are facing an enemy willing to torture or kill to stop them My school's learning materials for our students has to point out when we study To Kill a Mockingbird that there were very good reasons there wasn't more anti-segregationism in the Deep South of the Depression - because any black (or any white, for that matter) who protested would have been at serious risk of being killed by fanatics.

There was a King's Demons vibe to the whole thing, right down to an inept villain whose plan might have succeeded if he'd not drawn attention to himself. Seriously, why not tell the scumbag driver that he could have a day off then leg it for Alaska leaving the Doctor either none the wiser or chasing him across the continent once the damage is already done? It's also unfortunate for him that Rosa Parks is literally the third person the Doctor meets on her arrival in Alabama. Emblematic as Parks' protest is, it didn't create the civil rights movement, which would have found other outlets (in much the same way that Magna Carta is symbolically significant but didn't actually change much*). Possibly we're supposed to understand that the villain is dim enough not to have grasped this, in which case, it's peculiar that the Doctor doesn't spell this out for us. But, peculiarly, once the Doctor is on to his plot against Parks, he never once thinks to change tack and take out MLK - surely the one person whose removal from history would have the biggest effect on the civil rights movement. (* Cue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ4mxOluXY4)

I hope Eric and Lily do the "Weasel" thing again. "What's up with the Weasel? She's locked herself in the bathroom and is singing 'On the First Day of Christmas, I Murdered Santa Claus!'"

Dawn Lyn who played Dodie Douglas operates a Facebook profile under her character's name. Understandable, since most of the tv audience wouldn't know her real name. One of my other online names asked Dawn if, had the show lasted to show a pubescent Dodie, would they have done a "Dodie's first bra" episode. Her response? " Lol! They probably would have done that episode. Why not? They obviously had no problem putting me in dresses so short that you could see my panties."

The Time Monster would have been livened up by the Master not just turning Benton into a baby, but into a baby girl! (Ruth checks the nappy: "OH. MY. GOD!")

It's easy to save M3S for at least a season or two more - just give it a better timeslot. If they went for the Chip and Polly's baby option - it would probably have been a baby girl in order give Dodie something to relate to in a way that she couldn't do with the male triplets.

I think if the show had lasted one more season, Ernie would have been married off like the others.

E-Space is a pocket universe, not a parallel dimension.

Invasion of The Dinosaurs Professor Whitaker has invented a time machine and lives in a version of 20th Century England where any TOMTIT, Dick or Harry can get funding for exciting world-changing technology, and Britain is a global player in the space and energy races. He's ideally placed both to experiment with techno fixes and get practical results, but instead hangs out with this rather nebulous millenarial conspiracy?

In the novelization of TMR, Zoe actually is turned into Alice of Alice in Wonderland.

As for Zoe's "REAL WOMEN NEVER WEAR DRESSES" straw feminism, there once was a wonderful piece by a former Victorian (Australia) Equal Opportunity Board president that points out that you shouldn't expect social justice movements to save you from your own mistakes and failures. ("feminism has led us to the banquet table, but it's up to us as to what we make of the meal")

At least one Big Name from 1970s fandom is on record as saying he thought 'The Gunfighters' was the worst story ever (but that Season 3 was otherwise The Golden Age). The big "received wisdom" is the idea that it got Doctor Who's lowest ever ratings, which it didn't. (Ironically one letter to DWAS newsletter 'Celestial Toyroom' in 1990 alleged that no one should criticise Season 26 because the alternative was 'The Gunfighters' and ratings disaster. No one had the heart to tell him that 'Battlefield' got half of 'The Gunfighters' ratings.)

If they'd made Dodie older, Victoria Paige Meyerink would have been a good choice.

It's interesting that Morgan sitting on Santa's lap (and the Santa's fatal heart attack while Morgan was on his knee) probably wouldn't happen if BMW was made today as a lot of parents and places no longer allow children to sit on a mall Santa's lap because of pedophilia concerns.

Just imagine if ABC had succeeded in its' legal attempt to force CBS to give Dawn Lyn back so she could star as Prudence in Nanny and the Professor.

While i would not like a sweet, obedient little girl in a flowery print dress and patent leather shoes, i cannot tolerate Dopey, sorry Dodie, who is a spoiled little girl who thinks the world revolves around her and also thinks the highly stressed mother of infant triplets should play dolls with her.

I always figured the Two Morgans would make a good crossover with Doctor Who We know that regeneration can be achieved through non biological means in the Whoniverse. Obviously, the Matthews family had an encounter with the Doctor, in the course of which the Lily Nicksay incarnation of Morgan Matthews was gravely injured and, to save Morgan's life, the Doctor placed Morgan into the regeneration machinery in his TARDIS and Morgan regenerated into her Lindsay Ridgeway incarnation. That's why the Second Morgan talks about "the longest time out i ever had" in her first episode - it was to deal with post-regeneration trauma.

Nothing against Ridgeway herself but i have criticism for her parents giving her the name Lindsay which is both really a surname (see: Norman Lindsay) and has been used as a *male* given name. The middle name Elizabeth *does not* soften the sexism of giving her a masculine surname as a given name. I don't know what the anti-femininity attitude is, but one thing it is *not*, is feminism.

Lets talk Morgan. I'm firmly a Lily Nicksay person. One of the best blonde cutie pie children to grace the small screen.