These choices are the same masturbatory bullshit podmass has peddled for as long as I can remember. I actually like some of these shows, but the focus is so laser-narrow that it feels like nobody cares about anything that isn't progressive politics and alt-comedy, and honestly fuck that. This is the sad masturbation…

I'd much rather see him be Cobalt Blue, preferably with a better name.

In his position I'd be really bitter and jealous. Maybe even enough to power a burning magic gem of some kind and start a generational family feud or something.

Fuck Carmike. Not for deciding not to show The Interview, I don't care about that. Just fuck them generally, because they run shitty theatres and I spent my youth in a part of Texas where they owned ALL the theatres within 50+ miles.

Yeah, I liked this ep better than Sava did.

Your "could this mean something?" name-drop of the week would be Cameron Scott, an alias used by Captain Atom in the 80s.

I love Simone for being one of the few writers who can really revel in weird, often sleazy sex in cape stories and make it fun and funny and happy rather than the icky "maturity" we get from far too many writers. It's a shame her Marvel MAX Night Nurse series never happened, because I can't imagine that being anything…

This is absolutely tangential, but I felt like I had to share it:

That's pretty much my opinion too (which is why I brought it up). There are so many fantastic moments—I even love the Toclafane massacre-as-music-video and am surprisingly okay with Martha using the power of myth to rescue the Doctor—but it's definitely less than the sum of its parts. I can understand the venom it…

It's kind of too bad they used David Warner so recently. He was great as the wacky Soviet scientist, but if they wanted an old Master to play off an older-but-not-that-old Doctor, he would've been glorious in the role.

It doesn't really work on a letter-grade scale, but part of me hopes for the return of Nabin's old "Super-Secret Fiascopiece" from MYOF.

The Daleks have been badly overused for legal reasons (basically, the writer of the original story kept half the rights, and if they don't get used every season the deal the BBC made in 05 gets voided and they have to renegotiate.) They had the good sense to keep it to a cameo in 09 and 11 rather than a whole story,…

See, now that you mention it the Saward connection seems clear, but I didn't really see it at the time. I think that because "space opera tinged with just a hint of transhuman/cyber" is exactly what I want from popcorn SF a lot of the time, I have a lot more tolerance. Even so, I'd argue that it's better than nearly…

If the Divergent Universe had had more stories like "Scherzo" (which was brutally difficult but so very worth it) and "History" I would probably like it a lot more. As it is, though, the arc as a whole feels like a lot of missed opportunities and vaguely-defined, sometimes self-contradictory "this universe doesn't…

I just finished the Eight/Charley stories this past week (and will be finishing out the Mary Shelley episodes this week at work; very kind of BF to run a sale on 51-75 just as I was getting to "Zagreus" and then on all the 8 monthlies around the time I was getting to "Terror Firma." ). I think "Stones of Venice" is…

He also played an American mobster in the Big Finish 8th Doctor serial "Invaders from Mars." I would absolutely not have recognized him without a cast list; if anything, he sounds like Daws Butler's "perp" voice from the old Stan Freberg Dragnet parodies.

I really just don't like either of these choices. JGL I can kind of see if I squint, but Rudd just seems Arnold-as-Mr. Freeze wrong to me.

It's amazing how an episode that Groening hates, and is generally considered a lesser ep in the context of the season, has so many amazing quotable lines and quick gags.

No mention of this story's roots in the real-life franchising of Bozo the Clown?  That was the biggest con since Genghis up until cable made everyone aware that Chicago had the "real" Bozo and the one in, say, Little Rock was just a stand-in.

The parts I remember being utterly crushing were (a) when Mr. Henshaw essentially asks Leigh to stop writing, and so all his journal entries are addressed to "Dear Mr. Pretend Henshaw" and (b) when Leigh finds out that dad lost his dog on the road.