Okay, thank you, I expanded the comments mostly to make sure that someone had done this. :)

Goddamnit. Unsurprising, but disappointing.

Especially since — infamously — Heart Shaped Box was one of the two tracks on that album that the label eventually forced the band to take away from Albini and have Butch Vig remix to make them into, what was the phrase, radio-friendly unit shifters.

Thank you. The idea that this show (which I love) has ever qualified as hard SF in any sense is just weird.

Fear not.  Based on the episodes of Gatwa’s run that have aired so far, they’ve managed to spend the money on extremely good special effects that still look absolutely ridiculous.

“It doesn’t matter that you probably recognize Dastmalchian from Dune or The Suicide Squad or any number of other roles.”

That is quite possibly the perfect Rodney and Mojo story. RIP.

Stomach cancer is a brutal way to die— the state of California has an assisted suicide law primarily because the widow of a friend of mine who died of it in his 30s went on the warpath after that experience.

Pity. The Flash was a hot mess and I can’t blame Gunn for wanting to start with a clean slate, but Sasha Calle was one of the definite high points of that movie and it’s a little sad that this’ll be her only outing.

“We need a white guy who’s mere presence suggests that everything has gone completely to hell and that our main character has made terrible choices, can the casting director get someone like that?”

Varada Sethu has worked basically her entire career in UK TV; this seems like a premature worry.

Yasmin Finney is almost certainly pre-committed to do the third season of Heartstopper -- I doubt there was any way they could have made the scheduling work for a full-time gig as the Doctor’s companion, but it seems like a lock that we’ll see Rose again in a holiday special or something.

At least Graham was played by the one true ringer on the cast. The character was as sketchy as any of Chibnall’s characters, but Bradley Walsh could be counted on to make any scene he was in feel a lot more interesting than it actually was.

Tom Baker did seven seasons, Jon Pertwee did five. Tennant did three seasons plus a “season of specials” in 2009 that was basically a fourth season and then of course the recent series of specials as 14.

Actors like variety and worry about being typecast. The show is very high profile but from all accounts an absolute beast to make — Whitaker is the first actor to leave the part without sustaining a serious physical injury in over a decade — and it only pays more or less standard BBC scale.

Oh interesting, I didn’t realize that they’d specifically disclaimed the “oops we can’t do a show about a pandemic” theory. That’s really embarrassing since it suggests that the absolute nonsensical mess that we got was what they intended to do. I’d avoid admitting that in public!

A pity— She-Hulk was by far the Marvel TV series that I most enjoyed watching. It knew the kind of story it wanted to tell, it wasn’t laden down with the baggage of having to advance some sort of cross-property plotline, and Maslany was effortlessly charming in it. I can see how the CGI budget for it must have been…

It’s definitely true that you can get away with just about anything in your writing if you’ve got Olivia Colman and David Tennant as your leads.

Being the bigger weirdo in a band where the guitarist hangs with Bob Avakian and is an occasional Shining Path supporter is a hell of an accomplishment. Not a good one, mind you. But impressive nonetheless.

I should have added the disclaimer there: the first season of Broadchurch was consistently good. I’ve never seen the 2nd or 3rd seasons, because at the end of 1 there was nowhere interesting to go. He told the story that he’d set up; the sequels were clearly there because it was enough of a hit to demand a sequel and…