Eccleston started out a bit shaky, but only because it was a complete reinvention of the show, which had been off the air for a very long time.

Sorry. If Chibnall is still running the game, I’m out.

Stuff like internet, etc. could be added in without changing the story. It’s not like old sit-coms where a central plot point was the inability to phone someone.

“but then replaced by something so pandering to kids”

“I think so much of his work is dated because of the huge advances we’ve made in the half-century since he wrote them and it’s a loss”

Someone addressed this in another thread. It’s canonical that Data does age (or, rather, appear to). It’s stated in the episode with Data’s “mother”. It’s built into him.

Like is there some galactic Hot Topic where people can run to just in case they’ve turned evil?

I’m always confused as to how a fan of the original Blade Runner could think 2049 was boring. The pace and visuals were a spiritual successor to the original so that complaint doesn’t make sense to me.

But that’s pretty much exactly how I felt about Blade Runner 2049. I’m embarrassed just how much I enjoyed that movie and how intriguing and faithful to the original it felt

This sort of stuff is why I stopped reading mainstream comic books 25 years ago--especially X-Men.  If you have to rely on “OMG! This changes EVERYTHING!”, you don’t have a good story to tell.

Yet another show that relies on nostalgia, but completely forgets the context.  They’ll have to throw out basically everything about the story that had a meaningful impact and will be left with nothing that contemporary viewers can related to.

This is fairly typical for people from that era—especially soldiers. It’s an understandable side effect of dealing with both a polite, Christian society and a horrible war.

Patrick Stewart in a rustic space cape (space jacket cape? Oh who cares, it looks fab)!

This pretty much sums up why I’m NOT a Star Wars fan.

By ignoring the realities of politics, economics, logistics, trade, agriculture, manufacturing, communications, taxation, infrastructure, the Constitution of the United States, and the US Marines (in no particular order).

Glad to hear I’m not the only one. I gave up after 2 or three episodes. I’ve been thinking about doing a binge to get through it and see if I missed something better in later episodes, but... so far haven’t had the impetus.  I’ve been rewatching Jerimiah and B5 instead.

I made no such accusation.

My father would have been 97 this autumn, had he not died of cancer 11 years ago.

As I recall it, the new branch didn’t fade, it just regained its bright color, indicating that its lives were safe now.

Except that’s not the way it’s described (and illustrated) in the movie. The Ancient One draws a line in the air. Remove the stone and there is a branch. But...Banner puts the stone back, and the branch folds back into the original timestream. There is, again, only one line in the air.