I think it’s a fair cop that the parts of Demons that made it a good story were largely orthogonal to the parts that made it Doctor Who. Neither the Doctor nor the aliens had any actual effect on the main events of the story or its outcome: the Thijarian are literally there only to watch and that’s what the Doctor and…

I feel like Whitaker ended up leaning hard on the verbal tics because the episodes gave her so little else to actually do. Arachnids was sort of the perfect example: as you note, it’s lunacy that she’s angry about someone shooting a homicidal giant bug (which the script had gone out of its way to establish was slowly…

I will go to my grave believing that the Timeless Child plotline was a fanfic story he wrote back in the 80s and that we’re all stuck with it now.

Or, like, have the Master be lying.  He does that, now and again.

You said a mouthful.

The world is a wide and weird place and I totally believe that for any possible statement of opinion there is at least one subreddit’s worth of people who believe it passionately...

Yeah, before it was Ayoade, Paterson Joseph’s name came up each and every time. (Although I think Joseph would be much better in the part.)

*blink*

Pity about, you know, the episode they led into.

Weird, their comments aren’t visible to me on this thread, just your quote.

The one thing that he went out of his way to establish 13 as was as a pacifist, but he seemed to be really unclear on the difference between pacifist and passive, leading to multiple episodes where the nominal star of the show just sorta stood there and had the plot happen to her, and the actress playing her just…

Not that I don’t appreciate the urge to play with one’s personal trolls, but one of the nice thing about leaving them in the greys is that they have to stew on the fact that nobody can see them and screenshot-quoting them kinda defeats the purpose, eh?

KHB would be great but I suspect she’s priced herself out of the BBC’s reach at this point, and if things go well with Sandman she’s going to be quite busy.

Counterpoint: Capaldi’s era was scattershot and disaster-prone in that way that was Moffat’s signature, but any run that includes Mummy on the Orient Express, Flatline, Heaven Sent, Hell Bent and World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls has nothing to apologize for.

Sigh. I can’t say I’m sorry to see Chibnall heading to the exit, but I actually wish Whitaker had stayed around for one more season. She seems to be a competent actor but Laurence Olivier would have struggled against the dull 60Hz hum that was most of Chibnall’s scripts and after two whole seasons I don’t think I…

Am I gonna see Shang-Chi: Marvel Addresses the Chinese Market™? Yeah, let’s be real: they had me at Tony Leung.

In fairness this has as much to do with dumb internal BBC politics and the pandemic as anything else.  I’m hoping that the HBO deal might mean at least some more stability on the budgeting and production side.

After three trailers and multiple promo posters I’m still not 100% clear on which one is Kinneman and which on is Nathan Fillion

Seriously. All available evidence (Attack the Block, Broadchurch) points to her being a perfectly capable actor. It’s a goddamn shame she’s been saddled with... *gestures around in the vague direction of everything*

I have deeply mixed feelings about Rosa. Given just how bad it could have been, the fact that it was watchable at all was a minor miracle. But in the end it’s just not the type of story that works well in Doctor Who.