Through all of RTD’s first run on the show the concept of a “Gay Agenda” was brought up so much by certain critics that it became a running joke. He may as well lean into it as much as possible. 

Even in the classic run a lot of non-straight viewers- including Davies- saw a kind of identification in the Doctor, because he wasn’t shown as being straight necessarily. Of course in that time suggesting any kind of alternate sexuality either would have been beyond the pale, but it created a kind of ambiguity that…

I feel like Bayer should be higher up. She has a few stand-out sketches but even when she’s not the focus she does some terrific stuff. There’s a skit where she and Kevin Hart are both auditioning for a voiceover for Dove bars or something, and the joke is he’s being very shouty and OTT, but she does an absolute…

My favorite of her characters, though I think she isn’t drunk- the bit is she’s just like that. 

It really is very perversely fun. Black comedy like that is hard to pull off but Kidman has the right energy for it. (And the Cronenberg cameo is *chef’s kiss*)

Ah that oral history finally answered my burning question about the film (namely that Illeana Douglas knew how to ice skate from growing up in New England and that helped her get the part.) 

I mean that would assume a character like Wadsworth, they might go a very different direction to try and play down comparisons. But, well, that’s the problem, and moreso for characters like Miss Scarlet, Professor Plum, etc. who have to be in the thing. 

I feel the problem is now the reputation of the original film is too good and anything they do will be compared to it. It’s doable but it’ll be a challenge. 

No, no, no. Bert is boring but he’s no scab.

But that’s the thing, “everyone can make art” was true long before generative AI was a thing. 

For some reason the AVC in particular gets so many AI defenders

The villain even quotes the theme song. “Bouncing here and there and everywhere!”

A shame since this is the best Trek has been in decades. Like I enjoy SNW quite a bit too, but something about LDS being a comedy gives it the freedom to embrace the sillier parts of Trek while still celebrating them, and to be charmingly earnest about it.

I think the idea with “Triphibian” is, amphibians live both in water and on land, and these creatures live in water, on land, and in the air! It’s a weird stretch I know.

“I mean it is possible that it’s also...bad.”

Like here’s the thing, even if the actual movie is long and complex and thematically dense and all, if it’s anything like what was described decades earlier, it’s a film about the catastrophic collapse of a dense futuristic city. I even heard it described as “What happens to the ultimate automatic city of the future…

I mean that’s the thing, it was a property people were familiar with. They had the brand to sell it with. 

While the doc overall has worthy goals, I do wonder why you’d even bother steering an interview with him in this direction since, as has been pointed out, it has nothing to do with the shows he was on and generally concerns a phase of the network that was after his time there.

No.

They’re not fondly remembered because they have major problems beyond just “changing the source material”