Honestly, the one thing that makes me think this might actually be good is that I remember when everyone was convinced that Paddington was going to be terrible based on just the trailer and a few promo shots, only for that to end up being elevated to “beloved classic with even better sequel” status once everyone…

Honestly, this is kind of one of the things that always irritated me about RTD’s original run; the way travelling with the Doctor and running around on constant eternal impossible adventures was put on a pedestal to the point that the show treated ordinary life as something to be dismissed or sneered at, like someone…

Sure, but there’s still a point where the emotional investment still goes too far or gets a little silly or histrionic. “I’m sad and even a little angry that this happened to my favourite fictional character because I’ve grown to care for her” is good storytelling. “RUSSELL T DAVIES IS A BIG MEANIE WHO HATES DONNA AND…

To each their own at the end of the day, of course, but most of this is just the price you pay for signing up for a long-running shared universe; for better or worse, a certain amount of malleability and reversion is kind of inevitable. The Master and the Daleks aren’t going to stay good / dead forever, because then…

I’ve never really gotten the “saving her life” = “he’s taking away her agency boo hiss!” thing, to be honest.

Barry Kafaka’s satire has never been truly appreciated, I’m glad it’s finally getting some recognition.

Sure, but there’s a level of artistry, care and attention to detail involved as well which is part of the appeal. It’s a trade-off.

Fair enough, but to be totally fair, that’s kind of on you: when you say “I’d think it would have to be easier than doing stop motion”, it’s not hard to read that as you asking “why are they bothering with stop-motion at all?” It’s not really our fault you didn’t seem to express your meaning as clearly as you could. 

“Oooh, they have chemistry in real life, too!”

No one’s saying it’s not an art form, but it’s a different art form is the point. Painters work in paint because they find it artistically meaningful and challenging, and because it’s the medium, they want to communicate in, and because using that method allows you to do unique things to other mediums. Same reasons…

Fuck sake AV Club, does the constant directionless snark and eyerolling smirking not get exhausting? Could you not just outright say what you sincerely think about something without drowning every sentence in smug irony to the point where it’s impossible to tell what you’re actually trying to say about the subject?

I mean, you probably could, but the claymation is... kind of the whole point. It’s their artistic style and process. It’s what they’re experts in and what makes them distinctive.

I still think of the beer can moment every so often and chuckle.

Who knows? God willing, they’ll all eventually show up in The Marvels 2: The Search for More Money.

And because, let’s face it, their attempts to set up replacements for Iron Man and Captain America have pretty much been damp squibs (or, in the case of Black Panther, suffered a tragic case of actor existence failure). It’s not exactly like the clamouring for the Captain Marvel-Dr Strange-Shang Chi team-up movie is…

Yes, that whole 7% gulf in review scores could only be the result of sabotage.

Honestly, hot-take: this right here is why the X-Men shouldn’t be in the MCU.

In fairness, no human would ever stack books like that.

Is it? Not that it’s not good, but it seems like that one and ‘Blink’ are the two everyone points to as being the high points of Tennant’s time on the show.

You’re not wrong, exactly, but to be totally fair: considering the bad guys are ghosts, there’s clearly been a bit of an indirect body count at least.