He really is just absolutely incapable of writing a decent ending for this show. (Opinions differ on Broadchurch, but at least “wrap up a police procedural plot” seems to be much more in his comfort zone than “conclude a universe-shattering scifi epic.”) Battle of Rawhatever, Timeless Children and now this: they’re…

Vinder was a last-minute insert when John Barrowman turned out to be too toxic to hire at the moment, which is starting to look like a stroke of luck for Barrowman.

At some point we have to come to grips with the fact that the last time the Wachowskis made a movie that you could recommend with a clean conscience and no qualifications was well over 20 years ago. Does this look cool? Sure, but literally every big budget movie looks cool these days.  Am I going to wait for reviews…

I’m assuming the new years Daleks are going to be yet another group of descendants of the recon Dalek from Resolution, and that we’re going to be treated to another round of Chris Noth gurning around as not-donald-trump.

Hell, the entire through-line of 13's first season was that she was an avowed pacifist who hated guns and went out of her way to try to figure out how to solve problems without bloodshed. It was a terrible, show-wrecking premise but it was at least a discernible idea for the character and apparently Chibnall just got…

God, where to begin with this mess?

He’s going to win. Don’t kid yourself about this for an instant. This is who we are as a country now.

Point of order: one does not in any sane use of the term “reboot” a one-off movie. You reboot Star Trek by making more sequels that discard the previous cast and continuity. You remake White Men Can’t Jump although god knows why.

Ahem. Every Marvel Show from the 20-teens ranked. Because The Incredible Hulk should be at least top ten here. And the Doctor Strange pilot... would not be dead last?

The real problem with S2 was the ordering of the stories. They did the Hand last because they wanted a lead-in to the Defenders, but as you note they’re super fucking boring and it went nowhere interesting. The right structure, if you must have the fucking ninjas, would be to get them out of the way first, then have 4…

Oof.  Accurate, but oof.

Given that the to-air-in-2022 specials have already been wrapped by the BBC and that the nu-RTD show probably won’t even start shooting until late `22, I’d be honestly surprised: that’s a lot of time for a working actor to sit around twiddling their thumbs even if RTD wanted either of them along.

“The single best Doctor Who episode on which Chris Chibnall has a writing credit” is admittedly a low bar to clear, but this sailed over it nicely and is yet more evidence for the case that if Chibnall had just relaxed and concentrated on producing the series and running the writers room rather than inflicting 5-7 of…

I’m not gonna compare it to being a coal miner or anything, but acting in an action film (or even TV) is hugely physically demanding work. The reward is that you get to be famous and stuff and possibly make an enormous amount of money, and unlike a coal miner you have a union that actually looks after your interests, s…

So uh, not to belabor the obvious, but: that’s presumably Tobey in the black suit?

At this point I think Watts has earned a bit of faith — Homecoming was low-key the best of the latter-era MCU films, and No Way Home was almost-but-not-quite up to the same standard.  Whether they’re in it or not, I’ll be watching it.

Yeah, we’re all operating with lowered expectations here.

It might be a short conversation, but this episode for me is definitely in the conversation for best episode of the Chibnall run

I think it speaks volumes about the problems with his take on 13's character that the only way he can manage to make her take an active role in the plot of her own story is to have her ghosting inside the body of the Ruth Doctor.

Poor Yaz doesn’t really get anything to do this week