Ah - so it’s possible the reviews I saw weren’t sure how to judge it, as Netflix hadn’t really established itself as a kind of premium cable alternative. I never really heard anything about Lilyhammer, so can’t compare - though I do very much like OITNB, aside from the odd duff character/subplot. Thanks (and thanks to…

(For a lighter conversation) I haven’t seen this show, and I have a question about HoC for anyone who watches it:

I think this was actually the right time to come out (short of having come out sooner), as delaying it would have meant either dodging questions about his sexuality, lying about it, or coming out in a second statement which overshadowed the harassment accusations. Coming out when these allegations arose was absolutely…

I’d have gone with Stranger Ding-a-Lings.

That gif at the top is what happens when a Time Lord regenerates while on massive amounts of LSD.

Captain Hindsight here, but:

Okay, how the hell did they get that guy to play a smoke detector? Once, I could see, but they got him to KEEP COMING BACK TO PLAY IT. There surely must have been some off-camera arm-twisting to get him to stay in the band.

Ah, wasn’t aware of the full plan, figured they might want someone else between Colman and Mirren, but probably not if it’s only 7 seasons. Is 7 seasons Morgan’s plan? If so then he can be more relied on to stick around for the full run.

I was assuming the Williams and Mirren would alternate, like Becky from Roseanne.

I’m guessing that at some point around season 7 or 8 they’ll get Dame Helen in? She obviously enjoys working with Peter Morgan (having played the role for him both in film and subsequently on the stage), I’m sure she’d be up for a prestige drama series tying into and tying together two of her most acclaimed…

I think it was four, because I think the issue is that Civil War is 4 years after Avengers, and Homecoming picks up directly after that. They could have even split the difference and said 6 years, and had Homecoming take place 2 years after CACW, with a bit of nudging (but yeah, simplest would have been to just flash…

I personally wouldn’t argue that there is anything wrong with them - I’m eager for new storytelling possibilities, I think it’s a risk worth taking - but they’ll be different, and so it’s easy for someone to subjectively consider them to be worse, particularly if that someone has enjoyed the majority of the stories so…

A preference for the differences in how men and women interact, a continuation of pretty much the only constant between all of the performers to take the role to date, the story possibilities that change depending on whether it’s a male or a female in charge during historical periods (or even some future periods;…

Burn?

Open your mind.

No reason why the Doctor can’t, but there’s plenty of non-sexist arguments why the Doctor shouldn’t be, to do with dynamics, influence, expectation, story possibilities, and more. Do you identify as homosexual, heterosexual, cisgender or transgender? If so, you’ve already made a distinction between the genders based…

But you’d call someone who felt James Bond should stay male a sexist? That, as I’ve said before, is a stupidly low bar to hold for sexism.

There really isn’t any distance. You’re saying (and I quote) ‘solely for the reason that a woman is portraying the Doctor’, which means you are criticising a distinction in gender, which you do any time you identify as gay, straight, cis or trans. If you can do that, anyone else has the right to do that too. It…

In which case ‘showrunners’ is a much better term you already have access to. You went with ‘creators’ to apply an unearned entitlement to the showrunners, presumably because they agree with your opinion. That’s you using entitlement, not me.

...I wasn’t aware Sydney Newman or Verity Lambert were on record with regard to Jodie Whitaker’s casting.