Back in the day, you’d write to Marvel about that and get a No-Prize for your efforts.

I really miss being able to go and hang out at Starbucks, or even a Sheetz. Not to socialize, but because my house just gets too distracting and I have trouble working there. I mean, even as I type this, I’m supposed to be doing revisions on a freelance writing assignment.

And then there’s the coffee shop that’s got a little bookstore in it that has its own teeny tiny little coffee bar inside.

Ah, I see, that I didn’t know. Thanks.

Ah, okay. I didn’t watch the whole panel, just the trailer.

I felt that as well, though it’s possible that as a promo they might’ve taken a lighter touch on the animation with this to get it out in a timely fashion. Especially if said human characters are one-offs for the trailer and they’re not going to do a version of this bit in the show itself (which I’m assuming for the…

Fair enough regarding Tom. Though I know at one point the BBC’s deal with JNT became “stick with the show for now, and we’ll let you do whatever you want for your next project” and he proceeded to pull a ‘Rachel Phelps in Major League’ to try and run it into the ground so he could move on to said next project. Though…

I didn’t really mean it was a cash grab like that, but more of a “hey I’m related to Bruce Lee so my opinions about him are more valid” type thing.

I’m not sure whether I’d love or hate to be a fly on the wall when she discovers that a woman asserting her sexual agency is likely to be viewed very differently than a man doing the same by her GOP colleagues.

Well, the lawyer just read a newspaper article about how she likes to sleep around, maybe he figures he has a shot.

To be fair, I think there are about a dozen better options they could have gone with if they wanted to do a plot with a missing portion of the Doctor’s life and/or some ‘lost’ regenerations. I think the retcon would have been easier to deal with if the episode itself hadn’t been so crappy.

I think a big part of why Baker was running on fumes was because of John Nathan-Turner taking over the show partway through his run. Tom’s openly talked about how awful it was to have to work on the show under his tenure, and that he probably could/would have kept going if not for that.

Huh, never heard of Culver’s before. And a quick googling says the nearest one is 3 hours away, so that explains a lot. Is it any good?

Okay, I’ve never heard of this but I’m more than a little intrigued. I wonder if I can get it locally.

I don’t mind the retcon either. My only complaint about it is that a lot of Chibnall’s stuff gets really derivative (the third Master-Cyberman team-up story in five years), and the retcon is clearly inspired by something planned for the original series back in the 80's at the time of its cancellation.

What? That’s insane! Surely they’d never use some, I dunno, magical reset button to make people forget he’s Spider-Man!

That’s fair. Also, I keep forgetting Top Ten is one of his, that’s one I’ve thought about reading but never gotten around to it because I’ve already got enough of a backlog.

Yes, please, let us have this milkshake duck for as long as we can.

I’m not defending DC, for the record. (I started by saying that he’s right about Geoff Johns.) And Moore has done some brilliant work. But I often feel that he’s overrated, both by himself and his fans, and there’s a lot wrong with comics storytelling as a whole that comes from people who read Watchmen, took the wrong…

Moore isn’t wrong about Johns, but maybe the guy who built an entire franchise out of taking other peoples’ public domain characters and making them fuck needs to get off his high horse.