Chibnall’s big episodes always just threw a bunch of spaghetti at the wall. But if you ignore the utterly nonsensical batshit plan of the Master and the idea he could get the Cybermen to cooperate on a plan that would render Earth uninhabitable (and therefore none of its inhabitants convertible)—that’s just silly—this…

I have to wonder if maybe the backlash against Andor isn’t rooted so much in a lack of Easter Eggs or revisionist takes on canon events, as this simple fact:

I have some opinions and thoughts on these romances. For starters, I do lament slightly that there are only a few and that they are limited by gendered voice. But those that are there are interesting and well-developed.

In a way RoP has all but confirmed this. If the mashed-up timeline (which seems set to condense 2,000 years of events down to around 200) wasn’t enough of an indicator, take it from Galadriel this latest episode: her husband Celeborn seems to be dead. Yet in LoTR he’s hanging around in Lothlorien. Huh.

I think you captured a lot of people’s frustrations, in that Peter Jackson could crib from Tolkien, whereas now...well, they really can’t. It doesn’t mean the show is garbage—far from it. But as I said elsewhere, it feels more like Jackon’s LOTR (in an aesthetic sense), but is lacking a lot of what makes Tolkien so…

I’m ready to have this in my life.

No matter how many D&D nerds complain that it’s against the game rules for Druids to wildshift into an Owlbear

“There’s A LOT of writing in there, but that’s not the same thing as great.”

They’ll fly off the shelves because they’ll likely be great games with great writing, that may release flawed (like most video games these days) but will receive years of after care. Just like TW1-3 and CP77.

Scrolled down to see if anyone mentioned Ultraviolet and glad both yourself and Evil Lincoln beat me to it.

The list should include Ultraviolet, a late nineties UK tv serial from Joe Ahearne that starred Jack Davenport, Idris Elba, and Sussanah Harker. It is a smart horror/thriller, easily binged at only six episodes, and can be found on Tubi, Pluto, etc. Plus I think the unsold U.S. remake pilot can be found on Youtube.

Ultraviolet with  Susannah Harker, Idris Elba, and Jack Davenport was quite good I thought, less constrained by vampire mythology than some of these shows 

I think Loki worked well as a series. Each episode felt like its own thing, which would have been tonally very awkward in a film, whilst still moving things along.

Kai Winn, in many ways, is the greatest Star Trek villian ever.

It doesn’t have to have cultural impact to be enjoyable.

yeah the cultural impact was not from the story itself (while I love the film it is also just a more polished “dances with wolves/pochaontas” with aliens and robots which is not a bad thing.) but fro the technology it pioneered that made it a household name. the way they shot scenes and the technology they used was so…

Yup, he even went back and remastered Titanic into 3D, which was amazing on Blu-Ray (he even corrected the stars in the night sky to accurately portray the constellations that night).  Too bad 3D never stuck around

Other than mentioning he served in Vietnam at one point, no. But the season trailer they released after the episode has a shot that’s from the Vietnam episode of the original, so it’s surely going to come up soon.

So does Ernie Hudson’s backstory (which is kind of an open secret at this point) come up in the pilot, or is this something they’re saving for later?

I can’t imagine they would use a previous leapee like Magic without addressing it somehow. Maybe he has a bit of swiss-cheesed memory of his time in the waiting room, and that’s what inspired him to get involved with time travel research and ultimately connected him to the project?