If you want to treat the The Cursed Child as canon, she kinda starts to interrogate that a tiny bit there (spoiler I guess: Harry’s son ends up in Slytherin) but not in, like, any sort of interesting or intelligent way. 

Worse yet it got Johnny Depp fixated on HST and in fact hanging out with HST regularly, which I blame (fairly or otherwise) on Depp’s late-career collapse into alcoholic creepiness. Remember when Depp’s name on a project sparked interest rather than revulsion?

Its trio of young stars stayed with the franchise the whole time, handled the brain-crushing media attention with grace, and managed not to become cautionary tales.

Don’t forget surprisingly talented amateur rapper (of other people’s verses)!

guess which Cranberries hit gets an acoustic rendition?

Lord knows Carrie and Corin have earned the right to follow their muse wherever it takes them at this point, but man... this is cute, but it’s not exactly giving me hopes of a return to form.

Ugh, even as I was typing that out I was thinking “Should I make an explicit exception for the TARDIS set?” I’ll say that I like parts of it, but it’s really hard to get around the, ah, massive problem of the huge thrusting Time Phallus in the middle of the damn thing, and I feel like it’s not a coincidence that…

And as long as I’m nerd-whinging in an old thread: the really frustrating part for me is how well almost every other aspect of the show is working. The core cast is great. Segun Akinola has been killing it on the music. The show looks like a million bucks: not just the switch to anamorphic lenses but also they’ve most …

It Takes You Away was actually #1 on my list for “baffling character decisions.” In a lot of ways it was the other contender for being an Actually Good Episode — it was relatively well-constructed and well-written (minus the inevitable infodump where the Doctor explains where the Soletract came from), certainly…

Oh god. So my project of rewatching the show with my kid has trundled on into the Chibnall era and... we just finished S11. S12 is worse? I’m gonna need more whiskey.

All kidding about the-things-we-usually-kid-about-when-the-subject-is-Alan-Moore aside, I’m glad to hear he’s still getting remunerative work.

Counterpoint: if more actors see that Doctor Who is a stepping stone to anything other than a lifetime of recording for Big Finish, Doctor Who will get better actors.

In fairness he’s very busy not writing The Winds of Winter; he’ll get around to not writing the followup to Fire and Blood sometime after he’s finished not writing TWoW.

You had me at ‘Paul Verhoevan erotic nun thriller” I’m not gonna lie. I’m now boggled that he had not previously attempted this quite possibly perfect genre for him.

Showgirls and Hollow Man  get all the hate, but yeah: Basic Instinct was by far his worst film, and all the moreso since it felt like a not-even-half-assed retread of the transcendent The Fourth Man.

I don’t like the guy either, but I think we’ll survive him being stoned in public on the show that brought us Joe Piscopo.

It’s not an invalid criticism, but what worked about the movie for me was (a) that somehow in the middle of all of the de rigeur wolverine stuff was a surprisingly sympathetic and clear-eyed story about taking care of an elder who is slowly slipping into dementia, and (b) Dafne Keen.

Fair, but I kinda feel like “fucking over the two biggest talents of his era” counts pretty hard against “was sometimes a nice guy once he was rich and had outlived the people he’d fucked over”.

I can only assume that the extent of his involvement in Logan was to cash the check that Mangold and Frank paid him to stay as far away as possible.

It’s kinda hilarious since according to basically everyone who ever worked with or for him, Lee (RIP) was one of the biggest and most consistent assholes ever to walk the earth.