I did dig the closing transition for the First Doctor but a part of me wished we would’ve gotten to see Reece Shearsmith’s Second Doctor. Though I suppose the door is open for Shearsmith!Two to show up now.

And she’s keeping her Yorkshire accent! #EveryPlanetHasANorthAgain

So Whittaker will be a sub-Tennant? Or maybe a lieu-Tennant?

Her “oh brilliant” was so Tennant like that I’ve decided to believe in my own theory that we are getting a Tennant like Doctor.

Forgive the self plug...

The “smack on the bottom” line Caroline singles out as beyond the pale is a direct lift from Hartnell’s dialogue in The Dalek Invasion of Earth. The sexism wasn’t pervasive but it was definitely more than subtext.

-I saw a the first episodes of William Hartnell’s Doctor Who episodes on Hulu several years ago before they were taken off the streaming service. I thought that David Bradley perfectly captured the prickly old man hero that was Hartnell’s Doctor.

Thank you! Believe it or not I stared at that for so long thinking, “Wait why didn’t I realize beforehand that they’re both named William?”

I know you wrote this review late on Christmas Day - and thank you for that - but David - not William - Bradley plays William Hartnell.

You can get pretty big TVs now for not that much money. I’m not sure how big “big screen” is to you, but sitting a yard from a 50-inch TV is a similar experience to sitting ten yards from a theatre screen.

I understand. Ideally, exhibitors would do a better job making non-blockbuster movies more widely available to any cinephiles who live outside big cities.

It’s a chicken-egg situation. Without these awards noms, the distributors would have little reason to expand the releases beyond the major film hubs. The noms literally give the distributor the courage to invest more in getting the film in front of a wider audience. It’s a time-honored strategy that is very effective.…

When I was a young teenybopper, er, decades ago, I wrote to Roger Ebert at the Chicago Sun Times (whose PBS program just starting airing on our local bay area station) to explain to him my distress about exactly what you are saying today. I got back a very heartfelt short note basically telling me I won’t always live…

It’s almost getting to be like the theatre where only the very rich or those with special privileges get the opportunity to actually view certain kinds of films now.

I was recently in Best Buy for the first time in a couple of years and couldn’t believe that 60"-plus 4k TVs were selling for about $600. I almost can’t afford not to buy one!

Yes. Exactly my point. Year-end lists are still interesting for film buffs, but the large majority of the country looks at them and says “Huh?”

As a follow-up, I checked to see what the independent theater in the closest big city to me showed this year and they didn’t show any of the films on the list either other than the ones that played here as well. So I’m not even sure where I’d see the rest of them even if I had the time and money to drive somewhere…

You can get a 56 inch tv for 299.99. Skip going to the movies for 3 months.

I live in a city of less than 100,000. Three Billboards and Lady Bird came here briefly and I got a chance to see both of those, but the movies on this list that haven’t come here and probably won’t unless they get nominated for Best Picture maybe include: The Florida Project, Phantom Thread, Call Me by Your Name, The…

Just once, it would be nice to see an end of the year film list and be able to say I’ve at least had a chance to see all those films. It’s almost getting to be like the theatre where only the very rich or those with special privileges get the opportunity to actually view certain kinds of films now. I’m really looking…