I feel like the show couldn’t decide whether it wanted to be serialized or episodic, and settled on splitting the difference.

The disappointing finale to the otherwise pretty great second season, coupled with the behind-the-scenes creative differences (and the part they played in that finale) being reported at the same time really sapped my enthusiasm for the series going forward. I watched the season 3 opener eventually, and it was pretty…

This is just a list of tropes in pop culture that rarely happen to anyone in real life. It’s not very surprising that someone has never been stuffed into a locker before, because almost no one has.

Are the super smart talking dinosaurs the ones doing the further research?If so, and it means waiting one more movie to properly set up velociraptors  wearing lab coats and swirling flasks, I’ll be there for it.

I was what-iffing something along these lines in my head recently, but I would want JW3 to go the full Gremlins 2 route. I want to see spider dinosaurs, electric dinosaurs, Tony Randall dinosaurs, sexy dinosaurs...

Kevin McCarthy, huh? Well, meet the new boss, same as the old boss I guess.

The marquee matchup was Beauty over Mermaid.

I liked John Hurt’s performance in DOTD, it’s just wedging an unnumbered regeneration really unnecessarily mucks with the continuity. Nine shouldn’t have filled that role either because his is a new incarnation at the start of “Rose”. The War Doctor really should have been Eight.

Which is dumb, since a multi-Doctor story is enough of an event, and one spanning the classic and new era (more than a lovely Tom Baker wink at the end) would have been truly epic. “The Five Doctors” 20th anniversary special didn’t need a celebrity guest to draw an audience.

As for the universe, at least the Atraxi have been shown to have no data on the War Doctor during the events of “The Eleventh Hour”. I can’t remember off hand if there were other instances of the Doctor’s past lives being catalogued and displayed in an “official” way (so not John Smith’s dream journal), but they also…

Come to think of it, it does seem a bit off in hindsight that Eleven wasn’t contemplating his own mortality more often during his run. Or that Ten’s angst about regeneration wasn’t, at least in part, for thinking it would be his last. I know the real reason is that the War Doctor wasn’t conceived until much later,…

I’m similarly baffled with the recent apparent Batman Returns reclamation project. I’ve seen several articles over the past few years variously claiming it to be the best Batman movie, the best Burton movie, or even the best superhero movie. I’ve never hated Returns, but these superlatives have me questioning the…

Certified COTD

I’m not alone in supposing that the imprecise nature of the Jedi time-tunnel may have resulted in Ahsoka returning to a point in time long after she was pulled from. My nagging question after the finale was, “Should we take for granted that the liberation of Lothal was an entirely positive outcome?”

Maybe the MCU/DCEU has finally exhausted the planet’s supply of the color burgundy. Maybe from now on, red-clad superheroes will have to use that other, sillier red, otherwise known as “red”.

Finally, the Lumpy doll I never knew I wanted!

How does he have time to go to a movie? Shouldn’t he be at the stock market, doing a business?

I’m thinking...

I’m pretty sure that she’s Skeeter, after several rounds of market testing.

This is verbatim the thought that ran through my head as I clicked the article and briefly scanned its contents in order to get to these comments.