I actually think that S7 miraculously stuck the landing with The Name of the Doctor but everything up to that point was seriously wobbly.

Well, and... it’s the BBC. They operate under very different rules than HBO or Netflix: enormous amounts of their production budget are by law pre-allocated to things like a minimum number of hours of Welsh-language programming, and they’re not allowed to just plow Dr. Who merchandise revenue back into the show.

Only one way to find out: ask him how he feels about fried pizza.

I’m praying that won’t be part of the outfit; we’ll find out in another year I guess.

Yeah, 3 seasons is about standard: it’s by all accounts a hellishly tough production schedule to deal with and Whitaker is the first actor in a while to escape the show without acquiring a major leg injury in the process.

Hot take: Heaven Sent is better than Blink.

it makes you wonder exactly what it was the BBC saw in him

Face the Raven. :)

Every once in a while I go back and watch Attack the Block and get really depressed about what two of the biggest SF franchises in the world ended up doing to two obviously talented actors.

Honestly a little sad they didn’t go all-in on and just cast Martin full-time, although after nearly crippling Peter Capaldi I suspect they may be done with casting middle aged and older actors in the part.

Also LOL at the idea that RTD returning to Doctor Who will be anything other than a ratings juggernaut for the first season at least.

Time.

If you’re going to snark about pedantry, maybe you should have spelled Eccleston’s name correctly?

Insane that we lost George Perez and Neal Adams within a month of each other. Between the two of them, that’s the entire modern superhero aesthetic right there. RIP.

There’s an entire genre of Youtube videos in the form of “nerd speaks at the camera and explains to you why he has nerd-rage about something; sometimes there are dumb sound effects; parts 1 through 29" and the fact that these are somehow hugely popular makes me wonder if the internet was not, in the end, a terrible…

There’s a fair bit of truth to the complaints that Alan Moore disappeared up his own ass sometime in the late 90s and is now completely dedicated to churning out unreadable obscurantist works about the history of Northampton but you know what? At least he’s not the person trying to foist infinitely-diminishing-returns…

Yeah, alcohol abuse was definitely the constant rumor, but in the photos from the SC:ADTKF premiere he seems to have lost all of his body hair including his eyebrows and lashes not to mention all of his subcutaneous fat — I don’t think there’s any amount of booze that’ll do that to you but chemotherapy certainly will.

Somewhere in between the debuts of the two Sin City movies, something terrible happened to Miller: the before and after pictures are astonishing. He’s never said a word about it and at this point I don’t expect him to, but I would not at all be surprised if his more... let’s say colorful remarks in the oughts were due…

I came here to snark about the odds of this actually happening but... actually Sam managed to touch on nearly all the reasons why nobody should believe this is likely to happen!  Well done!

Huh. I, also, really liked those books at the time and in retrospect I always chalked that up to the fact that 14 year olds have terrible taste in everything, but I had no idea that they were a Brian Daley joint — he also wrote the Han Solo Adventures trilogy, which I also and more clearly remember as being way better…