So we are all agreed, from now on I’m not just walking around the house in my underwear, I’m cosplaying as the Doctor.

Good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor — he is equal to all now.

Samuel L Jackson as Jay Sherman.  It stinks motherfucker!

I knew a man named D. Idaho,

Are you fucking kidding me with this? Ignoring WKRP in Cincinnati?

That must have been really hard on Craft Services.

It’s a fun thing to look back on, now that both LoT and the AV Club are over.

Yeah, there are parts where I can just go with the flow at accept The Orville as as the straightforward love letter to TNG it really always wanted to be, but then Seth MacFarlane shows up on screen and the illusion is ruined.

I thought this was better than last week’s sludge, but not nearly as good as the first two episodes. It felt like it padded out plot information that could have been told in a few scenes into a whole episode.

It will be pre-empted for a football movie

“The Wachowski sisters definitely have a fondness for burying Hugo Weaving under weird makeup and prosthetics, so sneaking him in there as an old man definitely seems like something Lana Wachowski would do.”

“I had to rewind it to see that his ship was called the Mandela.”

Sounds like Theatre Of Blood already has the backstory for a sequel!

The great Theatre of Blood anecdote: Coral Browne, who played one of the critics, confessed to Diana Rigg that she found Vincent Price incredibly attractive. So Rigg worked very hard to get them together. And she succeeded. And Coral Browne was pleased. And Rigg was happy. And Vincent Price was pleased. And Rigg was…

What do you mean? We have Exit 3 now. I mean, you can’t get on the highway and go north from it, but who needs that?
There’s only two Hamilton Streets; that’s not hard.

I think we will look back on the Chibnall Era and view it as having just missed reaching its potential—basically a placeholder.

And to add evidence that negates the whole Doctor Who is “too woke”, they couldn’t 30 seconds with the idea that the main cast would be two women, one Non-white before advertising that a white male would be part of the cast in the next series.

I have two thoughts, and they’re not fully developed yet so bare with me if it doesn’t make total sense.

I’ve often wondered why Chibnall spends so much time on overthought, uninteresting plots loaded with banal exposition and unnecessary detail. It occurs to me that he might be trying to channel the style Terry Nation. The difference is, his style of worldbuilding makes much more sense in a 6-part serial than in a 45…

One thing that makes this sort of adaptation rankle is how much thought Pratchett put into even small characterisation details, let alone the big ones. Vimes being cleanshaven is central to his character: he’s a man who sticks to his own sense of what is right and proper, even while recognising that the world around…