Maybe the same relationship as farmer to barn cats? Not exactly domesticated but useful in keeping vermin down so allowed to stay. Pretty common for someone to adopt a closer relationship to a certain barn cat too.

Props for not only taking ownership of and acknowledging the poor decision, but also taking proactive action to correct said decision. Good blogger writer internet man.

I linked it there for those reading the story but unfamiliar with what the videos actually were, but the vid has now been removed because that was also a stupid idea.

When I first heard about this I thought it would be something more than just lootboxes for Musk-loving white-as-shit crypto nerds.

Late, I know. But stumbled upon this :

Normally I’d agree re: the companion, but to be completely fair the modern series has gone to the “young woman from the 21st century and her boyfriend (or a young guy of roughly the same age)” well so frequently that even a middle-aged white guy still kind of feels like something slightly different.

Generally I agree, though Amy’s farewell message to Eleven I thought was lovely and always makes me bawl 

The problem with this TARDIS crew was that they were just all too similar to each other. I would have loved a crew like 9/Rose/Mickey/Jack, or 11/Amy/Rory/River for a whole season. We actually had something similar with 12/Bill/Nardole for a substantial portion of Season 10, which is part of why I liked that season so…

Yeah, Capaldi’s Doctor may have had his growing pains in Season Eight, but he still had tons of personality and it led into an extremely powerful character arc in his latter two seasons. He quickly became my favorite Doctor (even outstripping Four) and by the end of it all, I was feeling genuinely proud of and for Twel…

Oh I was so mad to learn about the new guy, and that’s not fair to the actor.  I’m hoping he turns out to be like Captain Jack or Nardole in that he won’t need The Lore explained to him and be a secondary companion so Yaz can get her time to shine.

Limited availability is exactly why Walsh is leaving and isn’t in this much. He’s on a lot of UK TV shows and just can’t fit Doctor Who in any more.

I don’t know his filming schedule either, but the lack of Bradley Walsh in this episode practically screamed that the actor only had limited availability for filming. I mean it could have been poor writing, or it could have been a scheduling issue.

The entire sequence is worth it just for the Doctor Crying in the Rain meme. 

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…

It’s silly and melodramatic, but it works.

His last episode summed it up well.  Just a long series of goodbyes to all the characters as the Doctor dies.  Its overblown as all hell but its emotional as can be.

That’s fair.

RTD was the master of writing good emotional scenes, even in overblown episodes that I’m otherwise not crazy about.

I agree that he doesn’t ever seem to say anything beyond mush, but I get the sense that he doesn’t really know enough to say anything.

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…