RTD was the master of writing good emotional scenes, even in overblown episodes that I’m otherwise not crazy about.
RTD was the master of writing good emotional scenes, even in overblown episodes that I’m otherwise not crazy about.
My favorite part was when Robertson decided to betray the Doctor to the Daleks as part of his evil plan to extend the running time of the episode.
It’s amazing how this is a 70 minute special, the first episode for nearly a year, and it’s so unbelievably stupid that its entire inciting incident is so contrived it’s pathetic.
I’ve often wondered why Chibnall spends so much time on overthought, uninteresting plots loaded with banal exposition and unnecessary detail. It occurs to me that he might be trying to channel the style Terry Nation. The difference is, his style of worldbuilding makes much more sense in a 6-part serial than in a 45…
I mostly enjoyed this one but I’ll be happy if we never ever see Jack Robertson ever again. I’ve gotten my fill of evil assholes failing upwards in real life over the past four years, thank you very much. Davies and Moffat would have had the decency to have the Daleks murder the hell out of him.
The high points of this movie—the Order 66 scene, the Darth Plagueis scene, the climactic lightsaber fight—are as good as anything in the original trilogy.
But it was an incredibly boring original story! Wars over trade regulations? This is like what the Secretary of Commerce would write as fan fiction. Anyway, it’s not like Star Wars is really about original stories. If you listen to Lucas himself, the original trilogy was inspired by Joseph Campbell’s theory of a…
He could calm down if anyone would just get him some damn pictures of Spider-Man!
Peanut M&M J.K. Simmons.
Could be worse. There could have been Sorting Underwear that figured out if you went to the boys’ dorm or the girls’ dorm.
He’s not the greatest of writers, but each book did come with a free Farmer’s Insurance policy.
Dumbledore says to Snape that he wonders if sorting is done too early, IIRC. Basically saying that Snape should’ve been a Gryffindor.
Think it was referring to Voldemort and should have known that Putting him in Slytherin would lead down that path.
I love Dwayne McDuffie. “Damage Control” is a must-read book about what it’s like for normal people living in the Marvel Universe.
I think this is the key thing a lot of the discourse around this film tends to forget — it’s a kid’s film. Of course I, a cynical twenty-something who wasn’t that into Harry Potter to begin with, wasn’t particularly engaged with the film and can see all the flaws and joins and Chris Columbusness of it all. I’m not in…
I bow to no man in my admiration for Emma Stone, and going from Emma Stone to Emma Watson undoubtedly a huge downgrade, I’m not sure she was a great fit as Meg. I don’t think the contrast between Meg and Jo would have been there.
Fun-fact, around the time of the third or fourth film, my wife attended a party, which she knew would include Rickman. The kids begged her for autographs, so she took along a couple of photos of him as Snape, and shyly presented them to him.
Seriously, people throw Hayden under the bus all the time, but neither Natalie Portman nor Samuel L. Jackson (an Oscar winner and an Oscar nominee, respectively) could wrap their mouths around that dialogue.
“A Sith. LORD?!”
The writing felt more horrible overall to me, I don’t think elements like “too many companions” are to blame. We’d just have two horribly written characters instead of four, and we wouldn’t have the fun group dynamic to make up for it.
I liked this season just fine and look forward to a time when I can watch it in a binge and with little or no commercial interruptions. The last two episodes def need to be watched back-to-back with no commercials. I suspect part of everyone’s sour grapes here and abouts is because the finale was so full of ads, it…