So I just re-watched part 2 and I’m trying to understand why they chose Earth-96 for the Brandon Routh Superman and Earth-167 for the Smallville one. Having the Death of Superman scene appear on Earth-75 when it happened in issue 75 was clever, and a lot of the other Earths that made their first appearances seemed…

If you want to make a ‘spiritual descendant’ to Penny Dreadful, fine. But at least have the decency to put Eva Green in it.

I really excited for Pope vs Pope!

This reminded me of a Seventh Doctor era story like Delta and the Bannermen or The Happiness Patrol. That is not a complaint!

Based on past experience, I’ll probably try two of these upcoming seasons and stick with one of those until the finale.

I do miss the days when I was actually surprised by a regeneration. It might have been different if I’d grown up in the UK, but in Canada in the 80s Doctor Who didn’t get a lot of news coverage so Doctors 5-7 were all genuine shocks to me when they debuted!

I still wish they hadn’t killed Doyle, or at least had made his death a bigger deal for the characters going forward.

It doesn’t generally happen in the premiere, though. With New Who it’s always a finale or a special. Classic Who did it in the first episode of the season once (Seventh Doctor) but only because they fired Colin Baker between seasons.

In their defense, he does die in the short story the pilot is based on. But then he weirdly shows up alive and well in the Raylan Givens novel Elmore Leonard wrote after the success of the show.

I did not expect a sequel to The Boy and clearly neither did the producers of The Boy because this looks like a totally different movie. Doll’s still creepy though. 

I love the Arrowverse, so across the board renewals is great news, but I’m also quite fond of Roswell, New Mexico so knowing it’s getting a third season before the second even airs makes me quite happy.

I did a re-read of His Dark Materials a couple years ago, right after La Belle Sauvage came out (read the four books in a row). Watching the HBO version got me to finally start The Secret Commonwealth which I’d had on my Kindle since it came out.

Just saw this at my local Alamo on Boxing Day. My favourite thing about the Alamo experience is the way they cut together pre-show entertainment that matches the film you’re seeing. I was there for Uncut Gems, so there was a truly horrible rap video called ‘Basketball’ combined with some sort of educational film on…

Davison’s full TARDIS was meant to be a callback to Hartnell starting with three companions, and I suspect that’s why Chibnall did it as well. It fits with this ‘back to basics’ new viewer friendly game plan. Personally I think two companions is the best number (Jamie and Zoe, Sarah Jane and Harry, Amy and Rory), but…

It’s been 12 years since Blink, can we please finally stop using the phrase ‘timey-wimey’ in articles about Doctor Who?

Solid episode, fantastic ending. Loved Missy and would have liked to see her and the Thirteenth Doctor square off, but Whitaker deserves her own nemesis and this new Master appears absolutely bonkers. Glad Part 2 is only a couple days away, it was smart to premiere on New Year’s Day before switching to the normal…

As someone who grew up with Davison’s Doctor, three companions doesn’t bother me at all (as long as none of them is Adric).

BUT IT WOBBLED!

I really hope they don’t do a second season, either with these characters or in another corner of the Watchmen universe. These nine episodes were so unbelievably good, against all odds, that it would be tempting fate to try to make more. Maybe revisit the material in another 30 years.

Yes! And Dobbs gets so angry over one scene that every critic singled out as brilliant directing because it’s written that way in his script. This is why I still want physical copies, and why I wish Soderbergh still did commentaries for his movies.