People do not have enough appreciation for how much a hippo can fuck shit up when it wants to.

Amanda Palmer, somehow.

5 weeks from now: AMERICAN DOGS, all-puppy version of American Gods.

Cant wait to see who abruptly leaves half way through the season.  Any bets?  

I like Spider-Man, but I think a key issue for it with me is that we have not one but two main characters who spend an incredible amount of time wearing costumes that leave their faces completely covered, which makes watching Spidey and Green Goblin interact a bit like watching a PlayStation cutscene at times. It’s…

I haven’t seen this in years and at the time I really dislikes all the actors speaking with their faces covered up. Less so Spider-Man than Willem Dafoe. The Green Goblin mask looked bad. And it was hard to watch the mask not emote after that brilliant scene (Oh man. He is really chewing the scenery. In the best Willem…

It’s been really frustrating to watch as Whitaker is so charming and she’s trying so hard but there’s no weight to her Doctor, she’s not even close to being a full-fledged character. Chibnall still hasn’t quite figured out who she yet and it’s been two seasons. There’s also no sense that he has a concept of the larger…

See, I think that’s the problem for me . . . it’s not fun. I end up spending most episodes dissecting the show to figure out why it’s not fun. The plots are all pretty standard Doctor Who plots, the actors are all solid-to-great, the dialogue isn’t awful, (and even bad dialogue can be fun), and the cinematography is…

The Master was NOT awesome. Sorry. 

Fascinating to me that Chibnall has a writing career at all.  He’s literally never written anything good.  Like I’m genuinely impressed by his ability to build a career as a writer.  I don’t just think he’s bad by most professional standards, I think he’s pretty close to incompetent, and I think that within and…

No blame on her, but I can’t say I’ve enjoyed her run. From the Guardian:

The Master was awesome. Fugitive from the Judoon was awesome. The Shelley episode and the penultimate EP were great.

As an American who’s been living in England for the past few years (not far from Wookey Hole, in fact), I can confirm that it’s a whimsical land populated by hobbits and nannies who travel by umbrella. 

There is no more bitterly contentious issue in our divided nation than whether a hot dog is a sandwich.

Yeah but I liked Stewart-Jarrett’s acting both as Leo and the Dalek (and the transitions between them), so the entertaining performance made up for it.

Right. Watched it expecting much worse.

I think one of the general complaints of Jodi’s run has been the passivity of the Doctor. Things just end without her really doing much of anything. It’s really hard to believe that a Doctor would just give up to the Judoon without any much of a fight and even harder to believe they’d just accept their fate of being…

I wish there was a way to keep all the good decisions of the Chibnall era (the casting, especially Jodie; the really smooth-looking CGI and cinematography; the focus on historicals and more down-to-earth characters) without, to put it simply, his writing. Every now and then he does churn out a decent episode, like The…

Is there a general consensus? I feel like opinions are so varied at this point that there’s not a whole lot everyone agrees on.

DW has retconned itself over and over again. I truly think that if the execution had been better, there would be less criticism of it.