Derp, yes, I somehow got my wires crossed with the titles there.

Yeah, Linklater clearly had a certain affection for Jones from back when he was just a harmless-seeming Art Bell-esque crank with a local radio show — he’s in Dazed and Confused as well. As you say, it aged weirdly.

It’s genuinely a little weird that the most-adapted scifi writer of the late 20th and early 21st century by Hollywood ended up being Philip K. Dick: a talented and prolific but deeply troubled man with few friends, crippling mental health issues, a long-term methamphetamine abuse problem and an audience for his books…

You can’t fool me. This is a stealth sequel to Brütal Lëgënd.

Honestly given how the rest of Blomkamp’s career has gone, I think we’re a little overdue for an unsentimental reappraisal of District 9. Was the premise audacious? Yes, absolutely. Was the execution good enough to justify going back and re-watching the film? Honestly? Not really?

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I am all in favor of Idris Elba getting paid as much money as possible for as little work as he cares to do, but this is a little much.  Does he have an upcoming divorce settlement he needs to cover?  An unexpected tax bill?

Counterpoint: The Lord of the Rings.

I think the real problem with Leia’s spacewalk is that it just looked like total ass.

I really wish it were easy to disentangle the ways that The Last Jedi was found to be annoying by over-invested fans from the ways in which it was fatally flawed as a film, both onto itself and as part of a trilogy where we knew another chapter was coming.

I agree! It was really a delightful bit of kismet: an “orphan” season that basically happened as it did for entirely exogenous reasons, but Pearl Mackie was perfect and basically everyone except Toby Whithouse brought their “A” game to it. And WE&T/TDF was just amazing.

Probably depends a lot on just how badly Stock, Aitken and Waterman screwed him over contract-wise, which was sorta their whole deal.  That said from all accounts he’s pretty well off these days -- most estimates of his net worth are north of $15M.

Yeah, I’ve joked that you can see the exact moment in the middle of S6 where attempting to write both Sherlock and Doctor Who at the same time just utterly broke Moffat’s brain and probably some of his other organs as well.

Always and forever.  Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to inflate my shoes...

Amen, although honestly at this point I’ll settle for one that doesn’t have a Thrusting Time Phallus in the center of it.

A Dollard/Mathieson show is basically my dream team right now.

I think this is basically correct: If you read The Writer’s Tale, one thing that comes through strongly is that Russell Davies was a goddamn maniac. He lived, breathed, ate and crapped TV production, seemingly unburdened by any expectation that he would ever take a vacation or even go to bed at the same time as his…

Agreed. The insanely frustrating thing is that other than the quality of the scripts and the bizarre scheduling issues, Chibnall seemed to be...actually pretty good at a lot of the logistical aspects of running the show? Nobody seems to have anything bad to say about the experience of working with him, the show looks…

I really hope that at some point we get a tell-all or even tell-some book from someone involved in the show (maybe even Chibnall himself) about what the exact fuck was going on with the production during his time.  With the BBC it’s never safe to assume that you know what the real story is and it could always turn out…

Allegedly part of the issue was that Chibnall didn’t want the british tabloids to spoil the identity of the murderer, so he simply... didn’t pick who it was until very late on in the production, leaving plausible hints pointing to multiple people in the early episodes and keeping the actors in the dark.