A few of things that might be worth a punt maybe?

• The Monster is (AFAIK) made completely from parts of adult humans, so maybe you could argue that it's a human adult? Some sort of "ship of Theseus" type of thing? How many parts can you transplant on a person before they become a monster instead of a human?

• By a similar note it presumably has a brain from a specific person? If I die and get revived and lose my memory and commit a crime, am I still culpable? Maybe you could argue that it's like a Doctor reviving an injured person who then has brain damage which leads to them being violent?

• The Monster presumably shares no DNA with Frankenstein and I doubt he did any formal paperwork to adopt it, so is he legally responsible for it? Morally he probably is, but would that hold up in court?

Yeah the way some people treat Lee is rough, and there's also a side character just straight-up called the n-word. Like that's literally the name everybody calls her by. D:

I just read it a couple of months ago, I thought it held up really well. There are a few bits of language that are racially a bit shocking and as someone else said, the descriptions of some female characters can be quite overly-detailed but the general themes and message are pretty right-on I thought. :)

Yeah for that one I immediately pictured someone reading out loud at full volume in a library, recording it on their phone and then playing it back to themselves (also at full volume) because that's the only way they can read a book somehow, and getting really defensive with anyone who asks them to shut it lol.

I took it as a dig at the islanders - this big important thing is happening literally within earshot and nobody cares to even try and understand it, it's just this sort of bemusing bit of background scenery to them. Which is why the sister leaves, she's just had enough of their ignorance and nonsense.

Plus I don't think he's physically capable of that sort of restraint lol. I'm fully expecting a huge decadent mess of every insane idea he can come up with, being broadcast at us from every direction possible and I can't wait. :)

The 8th Doctor pretty much entirely exists in the Big Finish audio shows which I think is neat. In the 'main' show I think we've only seen him in the 90's TV movie, a Youtube short and that cameo in 13's last episode.

Yeah it's always neat when they do those ridiculously long call-backs. Like when The Witch's Familiar had Davros still salty about Genesis of the Daleks from 40 years ago lol

That definitely would have done it too, but I don't think I saw that episode lol

I stopped watching a few years back when he had Rand Paul on and not only didn't call him on any of his bullshit but was actually quite chummy with him. It wasn't entirely because of that, but that was kind of the last straw.

My go-to thought for reassurance is that historically, humans do seem to have a really good knack for just pulling a hail-mary solution out of their ass at the very last moment. It's no guarantee of course, but I wouldn't be surprised if in the next few decades we manage to just bust out carbon capture and fusion power or something ridiculous like that TBH.

I'll raise you an Ursula K. Le Guin:

> Books aren’t just commodities; the profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.

If the second game is anything to go by, there'll still be an entire subreddit dedicated to complaining about it 2+ years after it's already out lol.

And also they still do anniversary specials which are specifically referred to as the 50th/60th anniversary etc. and come out on the anniversary of the original show in 1963, not the revival in 2005. :)

Wild to think he's older now than William Hartnell was when he left the role.