It's worth noting (I Don't think the news post does, and I'm not going to bother to check since I read Finke's piece) that this is not the schedule DC wanted. They originally wanted a movie where The Suicide Squad fought The Metal Men to run in '16,but it fell off the schedule and Batman v. Superman was delayed to…

Wonder woman, and most of the rest of the Justice League, is supposed to be introduced in Batman v. Superman. DC has already ruled out doing Marvel-style solo vehicles for their major characters, so Shazam won't be the only cape in Shazam.

Haha they dropped the 'vita' from its name because vita is such a toxic brand

Sort of? He's supposed to be chaos and entropy, and I guess entropy does ultimately lead to an ordered state. But toppling regimes, breaking down systems, and disrupting shit is really the Doctor's bag as a renegade.

They'd mean more downtime, and these stories need more downtime.

It's not just about runtime. It's also about episodic structure. An episode tends to follow a similar act structure regardless of length, hence (as you say) fewer climaxes, fewer expository opening acts, etc.

Rings of Akhaten, which I'm probably mispelling.

C. Baker *killed* it when he read the RoA speech at a con.

To tie it back to comics, It's more like reading old issues of Metal Hurlant: the ideas would be good, but they'd often be mangled and without a lot of room to breathe because not everyone's a genius like Enki Bilal. If you go weird and dark you kind oaf have to be a genius, or incredibly lucky. Saward was merely…

It makes sense when you unpack it a bit. The Valyard is seeking to do what the Doctor always does, but for a different reason than what the Doctor would like to believe is his motivation.

He really should have been the black guardian's champion.

I loved the whole subversion of the companion thing. It makes Eight so tragic in a way no other doctor can really manage.

I know this is ages ago but what'd you think of the McGann scene when it aired?

It does kind of, yeah. But one of the later ones, after Herge got bored of adventure stories and wanted to fuck around a bit.

The BBC has a blanket agreement with the music industry. Provided that they don't show the cover of a record and, IIRC, it's a song released in the UK, they don't have to pay any royalties.

They're still ultimately binary choices though. That's what gets me. It's about two diametrically opposed ideas in every case.

The most nuanced it gets is how picking the Dwarf King and deciding whether or not to preserve the Anvil are separate choices. There's kind of a phony choice where you can spare Branka but get her to destroy the Anvil, but the outcome isn't really different from siding with the Golem.

DA:O is about as bad when it comes to the real problem: Quest Design. It's all about binary oppositions and the outcome is always reliant on a single choice, usually in dialogue.

What I like about Caesar is that he's a very recognizable type if you've ever been in university to study History or Economics. There's always some guy like that. Making him into That Guy rather than a standard lazily written RPG cipher makes it interesting.

The show isn't about "Lions led by Donkeys". It's about Weasels, Rats, Puppydogs and so on led by assholes and absurd ahuman systems. Which seems kinda accurate vOv.