I honestly think they’d turn on Trump if he ever took a hard turn towards doing the right thing. It’s not about him anymore. He’s just the avatar to channel their hatred. You can incite a mob, but you can’t lead one.

It usually takes 2-3 for the GOP to create a new party line after reaching a new ethical low. Give them a moment to reboot to the worst of whatever conservative media’s saying.

I remember once in a college course about terrorism, our professor showed us a video of two idiots in ISIS talking to the press. And one of his points was, “They’re posing.” They’re actively showing themselves off because they think this is cool.

I don’t think they’re acting under even that level of thought or self-interest. Half these people are genuinely delusional, the other half just likes how it feels to burn the world.

I really liked her first episode, and then she turned out to be useless. And I think it’s more than just being depowered. The Doctor’s probably my favorite fictional character, but now she’s barely two-dimensional. At least in her first season, Graham’s the only one who gets a full character arc. So they made the…

Yeah, I was thinking about catching up on that season and then I heard about the Timeless Child. It’s just the opposite of everything I believe Doctor Who should be, to the point where it’s almost clarifying.

Agreed. The only thing I’d love to read by him would be an essay on self-marketing.

I’m happy you like it. Moffat’s era is by far my favorite, and I consider the 12-Clara seasons his peak, so we probably have different preferences for Doctor Who. (I do agree the 12-Clara relationship is abusive, but I saw it as an intentional artistic choice.)

Capaldi’s my favorite, and I’d definitely recommend him. He’s a darker Doctor in the first season, but there’s a character arc that I think flows well from past doctors. The Davies and Moffat era truly feels like one story to me, and Capaldi gets a denouement that builds upon everything that came before.

The real terrible news here is that Chibnall’s staying. Whittaker absolutely has potential as the Doctor, but it’s been crushed under his mess. She’s barely the main character, or coherent. I didn’t watch last season, and nothing I’ve read since has made me want to change that.

THIS is what made her realize she was wrong?!

It’s entirely possible that he did.

I think that depends, though. Lots of attention-seekers are just people with terrible self-esteem seeking validation from others.

“He doesn’t drown puppies! Those dogs were well into adulthood!”

Personally, I liked it. It’s not perfect; the characters are hit and miss, and stick to the tropes. But I genuinely laughed at the deadpan narration, and there’s something cathartic about laughing through everything that’s happened this year. I wrote my own review on my Medium: https://damonferrara.medium.com/death-to-…

It might not have had Captain America, but technically, there was a guy named Steve. And he sacrificed himself by flying a plane away so that the divinely-powered German superweapon wouldn’t kill any innocents, while his budding lover tearfully watched.

Yeah, but they lost that bet anyway. As long as you make a good movie, nobody really cares what you were riffing on. It’s only when you mess up that people start caring about your lack of originality.

They basically treated the Germans as Nazis, so I think that’s an understandable mistake. I think the only reason it was set in World War I was for the scene in the trenches. Which, in fairness, was the movie’s best scene.

I imagine there’s a decent chance you’ve already watched it, but on the subject, I am legitimately baffled by how arbitrary the setting is. And the film’s plot would have actually made more sense if it was set in, say, the 20s. Diana’s just been hung up on Steve a really long time here.

My head-canon is that Barbara just shows up for work next Monday, and she and Diana act overly polite with each other and never bring it up again.