I think it may also be down to, in new Who, each Doctor tending to have their own Master. 

The sneering brigade when actors talk about receiving trauma from films can become tiresome. Sheryl Lee has spoken about the toll playing Laura Palmer took on her (and that was with a director she has had very positive experiences with), and it made me remember just how much people give of themselves to make these…

Emily Blunt is a compelling actress with a great deal of charisma and personality but who can also make quiet parts shine through. I do wish that if she, as she has said, is not interested in superhero movies because of how formulaic they are, she would start skipping these Disney films which have the same problem. 

The Davison era kept trying to have three companions even after that but it just didn’t work out (Kamelion, for instance, whom they had to scrap because the robot was so hard to use). I think Davison’s Doctor suited three companions (I know he wouldn’t agree), but I think the show in that period just struggled with…

I think both the original and revival started out that way and then drifted into formlessness - in the case of New Who, once we wound down series 3 and started getting musical montages of The Master in between reminders that he was beating his wife, the die was cast for how incoherent the show’s audience designs were.

I’d say the first three series of Tom’s run and of Pertwee’s run were more consistent than Capaldi’s. He was always great, but his first series was all over the place in quality and the whole Danny Pink arc was poor (in casting and execution).

I think that would be hard for viewers to stomach, similar to all the controversy over the Peter Cushing footage in Rogue One. 

Cowboy and war films were popular for 40-50 years - I’m not sure if that’s the right example to compare to superhero films. That they’ve managed to stay popular for the past decade after a long period of being moribund has been a surprise and also a credit to clever planning which can’t really last much longer, with…

I thought it was alright (if too long), but like a lot of the sketches people seem to be trying to make happen this season, it’s not one I ever needed to see again after the first viewing. Beyond “hold that door,” the best part was getting to see Mike O’Brien. 

After the ugly reception their last Killing Joke adaptation got, maybe they will learn.

Some fans try so very very hard to use Tim as a reason for why they hate SNL (when there are plenty of other reasons, I’m sure) and point to his show as an example of all the genius SNL throttled, and so on (even though his product on both shows was pretty much the same, just with added profanity on Netflix) - it…

I never really watched the Late Late Show as by that time I had read Lizz Winstead’s comments, but I enjoyed Craig’s era of the Daily Show. I preferred his persona and the complete pisstake on the media in those years over how suffocating Stewart’s era of the show became.  

I’ve seen captures from the sketch used, but mostly from diehard fans. There have been efforts to make several sketches ‘blow up’ on there (the coffin sketch is another), but it’s difficult to recreate something that happened naturally in the first season. It doesn’t help that these sketches don’t really have any…

A few years ago I watched the Gilda Radner documentary, which heavily used her voice (I assume from her recording of her autobigraphy). They managed to tell the story through those snippets and made it feel like we were hearing her story rather than just seeming ghoulish. If I’d heard that they’d used AI for any part…

It’s unfortunate how sitcoms (especially those which aren’t meant to be cookie cutter TGIF-era shows) fall into the trap of having characters be hateful to one another for easy laughs, week after week. It’s one of the reasons I quit shows like Everybody Loves Raymond long before they ended.

My main problem with the movie was I felt like about halfway through they started to move away from the cynical take which the show often seemed to navigate best, then near the end, abruptly reversed course and went right back. Peter Capaldi manages to make the shifts work, but the presentation of the central MP…

That’s fair, but when you have someone so famous in the role it’s more difficult to separate whether it’s the character or the actor who seem to be from another film (at least for me). I shouldn’t really single him out though (this was an issue for me with several in the cast), I just thought of it for the first time…

I remember when Gandoflini had a role in In the Loop, which was the Thick of It cast interacting with American politics. He played a general, I think. He was a good actor, but he seemed very out of place in that format(the movie had a lot of tonal issues which didn’t help).

Beck was asked here and gave another of the “I don’t know” answers. I was surprised someone finally asked him. This was a strong season for Beck and one of the first I thought managed to use most of his talents - if he does stay I won’t be sorry, but if he leaves it was a good way to go (especially with that fun Vin…

This worked better than it should have due to Amy and Seth just laughing and blustering their way through as neither of them cared. The whole “women aren’t there because they are fixing everything!!!” segueway felt like it was dropped in from 2015 though.