There’s definitely a sense of it being a wink and a nod, as if a lot of the behind the camera creatives are afraid of taking the whole thing too seriously. And the storytelling is rushed, because it’s definitely built for short-attention-span theater. Which hey, the pace of ClassicWho could get punishing at times, so…

I was never the biggest fan of RTD’s run (not that I loved Moffat or Chibnall either*), so while I’m not overjoyed that he’s back, I do have to say: the costuming is on point.

To be fair, neither did Lynch’s- that was the producers meddling

Neither of them is terribly good, honestly, but Lynch at least captured the feeling of a world where space travel is powered by taking a shitload of drugs. The Villeneuve version just isn’t weird enough for me. The technology designs feel too plausible. The costumes are too bland. The sets are… meh. Lynch made an…

The best Florida movie is The Florida Project. Moody and desperate, with Willem Dafoe as a supporting actor for a lead cast of nobodys, centered around kids who don’t know how miserable things are because, well, they’re kids.

Honestly, it was mostly the writing. He was just too callous all the way through. They didn’t stick with the “he’s a giant shit” characterization, but he was never a nice Doctor. But I do have a soft spot for the “Two Doctors” special.

Doctor Who has always almost always been sexy. Hartnell was sexy grandpa. Troughton was sexy uncle. Pertwee was sexy swinger uncle. Baker was sexy goofball. Davison was sexy prep school twink. Baker II was not sexy. McCoy was sexy college professor. McGann was 90s made for TV sexy.

I mean, I don’t see a problem with it. The system is the system, and at a certain point, you’ve gotta make compromises, regardless of what industry you work in. You can be critical of it while still participating in it.

Actually, I don’t get that from the quotes. I think he also thinks Superman and the Flash were mindless entertainment- but Superman was “one and done” and the Flash was “only a few weeks” of work- in other words, he’ll still turn up for a paycheck, which hey- acting is a job.

Now that Extraction is clearly a franchise, the biggest thing to talk about is the titular scene in every film. For the unfamiliar, the premise: Chris Hemsworth is a mercenary who is hired to extract people from dangerous situations. In the most recent film: a Georgian crime boss is in prison, and he’s forced his wife…

Problem: Joss Whedon isn’t actually funny, and the comedy he puts in his scripts is terrible. It only works when the actors can do a lot of heavy lifting. 

I mean, expand that time window. The show’s been around for twenty years, and it’s been consistently great.

Yeah, I’m stumped. Can’t think of the specific thing. It should have a classic rock vibe, something that evokes something like the Rolling Stones. Maybe something like “Paint it Black”. That’s almost perfect.

I mean, I don’t disagree, but it was an excuse to do a Transformers show with a Velociraptor, a T-Rex, and a Gorilla in it.

The animal mode (in Beast Wars) was organic in nature and shielded them from Energon radiation, IIRC.

In Beast Wars, the mysterious planet they land on is covered with Energon, which overloads them if they spend too much time in their robot forms. Thus, animal forms, which are resistant. Eventually, they need new toys, er, I mean, the Energon isn’t a problem anymore, and they get “Transmetal” forms, which are robotic…

> Superman and Lois goes full soap opera

It’s not great, but then again, all the large-scale chat apps have gotten really bad. It makes me long for the days of AIM.

At no point in history has the response to leaked files been “send a threatening letter”, it has always been “attempt to recover the stolen property with private security, and then escalate to state authorities”, with the caveat that what they mean by “stolen” and what you or I might mean by “stolen” might not align.

Again, the Pinkertons are a division of Securitas AB (pedantically, there are no Pinkertons, since the company went under in 1999, and it’s technically Securitas Security Services), and they provide corporate security for a lot of companies. It’s not like Hasbro sought out the worst people on Earth to harass this one…