You know what, if it didn’t float your boat fair enough. Can’t please everyone. But you know what, perhaps the people you’re calling out as “hyperbolic” were just really enjoying themselves in the moment. Not everyone watching is a freaking Doctor Who doing a ranking of every Doctor’s introduction.

There’s also some really good stories in series one - I’d say The Long Game is the only straight up dog and some of the wobbly tone and characterization in the front half of the series was understandable.

Yeah, I think people really do tend to forget that the serials weren’t made to be “binge watched” — not that you could, even if you wanted to. You sat your butt down on Saturday tea time and tried to remember the salient story points until the next week. So, yeah the re-cap exposition can get exasperating and there’s…

I’m so old I’m about due a regeneration, but I remember hearing all this back in 2005. The multi-episode ‘serial’ format? Gone. Russell T Davies being... coy about whether any of the old familiars would return. Would all be too slick and dumbed down? Would the guy whose highest profile project to date was the raunchy,…

No it isn’t at all -- the whole idea behind The Doctor’s exile to Earth was to trim production costs.  And honestly, I think the whole kerfuffle is nerdly overthinking it.  Though granted, Chibnall has played it for publicity like a PR Jedi Master. (Or should that be Missy?)

Basically, no.

They’ve been written by Gene Luen Yang,with Faith Erin Hicks picking up script duties for the next that kicks off in December. They’re both excellent writers in their own right, and worked on the stories closely with DiMartino and Konietzko.

They’ve actually been doing graphic novel sequels to Avatar for the last six years (through Dark Horse) and they’re worth a look.

They’ve been doing pretty good coninuations of both Avatar and Korra in graphic novels for a while now.

OK, take my wallet now but I hope Samuel L. Jackson and Clark Gregg are going to have limited screen time because the digital botox-ing is weirdly distracting.

I hope it means they’re going to focus less on some quarter-arsed MCU clone and focus more on making entertaining movies.  (I know this is nerd blasphemy, but I starting the find the convolution backstory of the MCU is really hitting the point of diminishing returns.)

What the actual fuck are you talking about?  You are aware that M. was played by a woman not a drag queen for seventeen years and seven films, and I didn’t notice any shortage of 007's trademark macho shooting, punching, blowing shit up, boozing and shagging. 

Yup - I’m sure Disney has made it perfect clear to Bautista and his representation that they will hold him to every letter, clause and punctuation mark in his contract.  Which I very much doubt includes script and director approval causes.  Beyond that?  Meh, he’s no Robert Downey Jr. and his work outside the MCU has…

I’d be even more impressed if Clark Gregg reminded everyone that this is a fraking comic book fantasy movie so they can just fuck off with the CGI botox and get to grips with the fact that he’s a middle-aged man.

OK, back on this planet institutions that aren’t properly funded for basic infrastructure work are exceedingly likely to get substantial and ongoing funding required for even a basic digitizing project.

Whomp whomp.

Employ Talent!!!

Indeed! I’d also like to make a related point — Call The Midwife is one of the most critically successful and popular dramas on British television. It also made no secret from day one that it wasn’t just a female-centered drama, but the female producers were consciously recruiting majority female writers and…

I’m really gong to show my age here, but remember when the MCU was going to be DOA because nobody would know, let alone care, about Tony Stark? Hell,if a familiar brand determined comic book movie gold Justice League would have crushed Black Panther at the box office last year. It didn’t.

And while we’re on the subject, does anyone else think that a Batwoman series is a crazy idea. (even though i’ve been saying they should do exactly that for years,) surely, even Batgirl has better name recognition with the general public.