That was a challenge for the Netflix Marvel Shows that often felt like one dense text chopped into 50-minute segments

Colbert’s salt-and-pepper hair

Ugh, really?  That’s incredibly disappointing.

I think people spotted Azkaban an enormous amount of goodwill because it just was on an entirely different level of cinematic competence than the Chris Columbus films. If you walked into the film having never read the books — hell, if you walked into it not speaking a word of English — you’d find at least one or two…

Whoa, surprise Harlan Ellison reference there.

*googles for “random roles dean stockwell”*

Also apparently a race of alien clones who live for war and conquest haven’t yet figured out the concept of staggered R&R shifts?

God willing he keeps sitting on it.

Worryingly, Sacha Dhawan is not currently listed as having a credit on Flux, and seems to have been busy enough in 2020-2021 that it might not be one of Chibnall’s fake-outs.  So I suspect we’re really stuck with this nonsense unless RTD wants to go to epic lengths to un-do it.

It kind of sums up the Chibnall era perfectly that in order to completely smash the show’s established continuity and replace it with his own, he did it by introducing a Doctor who was way more interesting than the one who he’d nominally based the show around...

This. The moral of Broadchurch is that if you have Olivia fucking Colman plus David Tennant in not-phoning-it-in mode plus Jodie Whitaker, David Bradley, Arthur Darvill, and a bunch of other ringers on the cast, you can get away with damn near anything.

I honestly think that just on the basis of The Woman who Fell to Earth, Demons of the Punjab and Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror we can conclude that she’s capable of being good in the part when the script gives her room to be good.  It’s just that that happens so, so rarely. :(

On the other hand, the Weeping Angels, much though I love Blink, probably had fastest diminishing-returns value of any nü-Who monster, and Alderton managed to not comprehend that “the new Prometheus” was in reference to the mad scientist, not the monster (and Chibnall let the line stand through editing!), so let’s not…

I agree actually. It’s incredibly dumb that the series keeps going back there: the whole point of the opening of ANH is that it’s the last place that anything interesting would ever happen.

On the one hand, “who rules the underworld of the galaxy’s biggest backwater?” sounds like the least interesting possible hook for a Star War.

I assume it’s a lock that she’ll be back for the 60th and RTD will be writing it, so we’ll get to see at least a little of that, but of course big event episodes generally tended to being out RTD’s worst tendencies so even odds it ends up with Whitaker and Tennant doing a scenery-chewing contest for 90 minutes.

I mean, Cube was always a NoI / 5%er lunatic, he just managed to dial it down in public for a few decades there.

I would expect that hiring the experts necessary to do the machine reproductions and the museum-quality aging and stain-matching on them was probably a significant expense, not to mention an extremely professionally produced promo video and website.

But does it have an alcoholic bisexual writer fellating an extremely buff jesus hanging from a cross?

Don’t forget occasional cuts to a large computer-like thing, just kinda sitting there and humming. And really hold those shots: everyone knows that the longer you drag out a completely contextless insert shot, the deeper and more mysterious it is!