Hah hah, no, I have no authority at work, at least not over other people. I have autonomy, not really authority.

Way to bury the lede that Doom Patrol got renewed. This is the first I’m hearing of it and I’m happy happy happy about the news.

I’m fairly certain that Behrad/Zari’s mother might be my Persian mother-in-law, because the “your hair is so long, I can cut it” is 100% a Persian mother thing to do.

My honest biggest problem is it feels like the script is trying to be “clever” and I hate it when they try to be “clever”. Still, Ruth!Doctor is miles ahead of MimeDavison!Doctor, and also Logopolis was a terrible exit for Baker. That’s not relevant, really, but compare Logopolis with the Caves of Androzani, and I’m…

Whittaker’s first episode, the stakes were the life of a lazy dipshit and I loved that level of stakes. You can get the audience to care about trivial things if the characters do- huge stakes are usually a shortcut: you can’t actually figure out how to make the audience care, so you just make the stakes so sweeping…

I mean, that’s about where I’d slot it in myself, but I’d be angry if they did, because the idea that Trougton’s Doctor and Jamie got to keep on having adventures for a bit is something that I totally want to be true, and slotting in some alt-Doctor to that phase would make me sad.

This episode was deftly executed. Pretty much all of my major complaints about how the behind-the-camera stuff has been playing out were absent this time.

I love that Hypatia is the one Greek philosopher that made it. I think Diogenes should have gotten in too, but I suppose masturbating in public is negative points.

LoT actually talks about their feelings. Like, the other shows, they’ll say, “I’m angry,” or “I’m sad,” or “I’m worried,” but really it’s just filler between the punching. LoT actually lets the characters explore, out loud, why they’re feeling that way and what the people around them can do to support them. It’s…

I mean, I’m certainly not important, but then again, who is? Certainly nobody commenting on this post, at the very least.

The one thing that really puts LoT over every other Arrowverse show is that people fucking talk about their emotions. Nobody locks their worry away or their guilt, at least not for very long. And I love it. They’re the most childish bunch of goofballs, but any one of them has more emotional intelligence than the…

Is it? Like, I recognize that I have the personality of a weird space alien, but to me, interpersonal conflict tells us that your system has failed. Whatever organizational model you were using is broken, because the collective should have been able to temper the conflict. This doesn’t mean there’s an absence of…

I don’t think the “no interpersonal conflicts” was a bad choice, though. Everyone rags on it, but it forces us to view the crew as a high-functioning team who are focused on external problems. It’s not a fit for every show, but Star Trek, especially in that era, was very much a competence-porn show. And that’s a good…

Shades of Utopia to it.

It was mostly competent behind the camera this time, and I really really think that’s where the previous episodes this season have been let down. I don’t think the script in this one was particularly better (and speaking of rehashing old ideas, anyone else get the vibe near the end that we were seeing a less emotional…

The real cautionary tale is about the dangers of not planning your shotlist correctly or using a script supervisor to actually make sure you get the shots you need, and trying to fix it in the edit booth, which is the main theme of this era of Doctor Who apparently.

“I made a proposal, what are you not even going to negotiate?”

Better than having an out-of-nowhere low-budget film-maker make their own cult classic that nobody was ready for?

Just… why? I love Evil Dead, but what I love about it is Raimi’s unique vision. I don’t want someone else doing their version of that- I want someone else doing their own weird fucking thing. END FRANCHISES.

Wait, it’s not? Admittedly, I didn’t pay that much attention to Fo76, but I thought that was the whole point! I remember the whole, “there are no NPCs, because the players will be the NPCs!” and then the “we’re adding NPCs” so I foolishly assumed that it was more MMO-y.