It’s definitely a hell of a choice, and the risk is that whatever explanation Chibnall is going to come up with will not feel big enough to justify it.
Moffat made the right choice in saving Gallifrey, but having the Doctor mostly want no part of it.
Chibnall’s new situation is problematic, not just because it undoes…

I was hoping they were just going to have him be Stephen Fry; actor, writer, and head of MI6.

She’s a woman, what more do you want?
Seriously though, I do feel that the writers last season took a very tentative approach to the character. If there were any distinct character traits to her they were penciled in very delicately. Mostly it seems to me that they gave her some quirks; caring, enthusiastic, a…

I mean look at his other work, Broadchurch was just absolutely dour. He doesn’t have a light touch. Which isn’t a problem on its own, Doctor Who doesn’t need to have the same tone constantly, and a show like the X-files was often grim and serious. But even the X-files could do humour. Right now Doctor Who feels like…

This was on par with the first part of a Davies two-parter, so good set up, but every chance the whole thing will collapse in on itself like an underdone cake, but without Paul Hollywood grinning at it.

If there’s anything I call bullshit on its Esmail’s claims that he had the whole show planned out. I’m pretty sure that he had season one planned out, but not the rest, so you had main characters like the Wellicks falling by the wayside, the mystery of White Rose’s machine being built up before the show changing…

Yeah, if there’s an unfinished thread it’s the Wellicks. In retrospect their prominence in season one gave us a sense of their importance to the story that they never really turned out to have, but it’s to the credit of Esmail and the actors that it seemed like their stories needed to be part of the endgame of the…

how cute, did you sit there with a stopwatch to measure it?

This was the first episode where you had some actual character development and pathos. So of course Kuuil had to die, because on The Mandalorian we can’t have anyone we might care about.
The show is entertaining, but it’s paper thin. 

This episode had a several minute long montage of a droid learning how to pour tea. Which was fine, and you’re allowed to enjoy it, but it’s not exactly tight storytelling.

Supposedly a stuntman filled in when he wasn’t available, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out he just did a voice over for the whole season.

Well, and Iorek calls him a tyrant, so that’s good enough, right?
Really though with the time they have on the series, it shouldn’t have been impossible to show Iofur’s delusional reign. Pullman’s description of his unkempt palace, and the anxious attempts by the other bears to become more human, is one of my favourite…

No, I’d like the people who make the show to have a sense of what lives matter. 

Because it’s heavily implied she would be a better recipient of Manhattan’s power than the narcissists Keene and Trieu, because of the conversation she had with Will.
But Angela is a cop who tortures people, so I’d have liked it if the show had taken her on a bit more of a journey on that front. 

It also seemed that the show was leading up to rejecting the very notion of (super) power. Like the arms race that the original Watchmen was concerned with, Manhattan’s presence only created stronger reactions to overcome him.
The same way that the liberal hegemony of Redford provoked the Cavalry to try to create…

If it’s supposed to be character development it’s not very well telegraphed, mostly it comes across as bad writing. I also don’t care for the implication that it’s fine for the republic to blow up any perceived threat, but Mando would cross a line killing a warden. I don’t need Star Wars to be a meditation on violence…

Yep, this whole thing feels like Favreau and Filoni playing with their toys. Fun for them maybe, but there’s not much for anyone else to be had from it.

Also let’s face it, the Elves are boring.

Part of the problem is that Game of Thrones went out on such a sour note,
I don’t see a lot of people left with an appetite for more complicated fantasy drama.

I’ve had doubt about this thing ever getting aired from the start.
They should have waited 5 years and just announced a straight up adaptation of Lord of the Rings instead of trying to make something from the stuff Tolkien could never bother to actually turn into something publishable.