Streets of Fire is one of my favorite movies, but uh… Michael Paré is not why, not by a mile. I’ve seen soggy toast with more screen presence.

I’m thinking more in terms of them going down the 90s/00s musicals. Where’s the Rent pastiche?

I can’t say I’m surprised that Schmigadoon got cancelled, but I am disappointed.

I was one of the kids who watched Challenger explode. I think there are two categories of failures in space flight, broadly speaking. The first are the Challengers and Columbias, which are bureaucratic failures- in both cases, all the information about the problem were available. Better decisions could have been made,…

I’ll be the one who says it. When Alan Rickman says, “By Grabthar’s Hammer, you will be avenged,” I cry every time. I’m a little weepy just thinking about it.

Pedantically, it couldn’t “just as easily” be a human being- missions which carry human beings go through much more rigorous processes. Human rated craft are held to a higher standard, and also, have to carry, y’know, life support. The result is that they have to be orders of magnitude larger- even if we ditched all…

Heh. Exactly.

I spent more time than I should have reading the store page and trying to divine if this was a parody or sincere, and then I realized: it doesn’t fucking matter, because the Jones vortex is just meaningless nonsense, but like, not in a fun dadaist way.

Tennant is still there with Donna and Wilf. If Gatwa goes there, he’d be interfering with the therapy that he knows Tennant needs. Gatwa spent the rest of Tennant’s life with Donna and Wilf- and likely the rest of their lives, too.

It’d be cool to see, like, 20-year-old James Bond. The humble roots that he comes from. Whatever trauma of youth that makes you be able to be James Bond. There has to be something there.

But by the time Tennant is done with his work- which is implied to be many years- do we really expect Donna to want to travel with this entirely new Doctor, or spend the remaining years with her companion of decades?

Gatwa is great. I worry that his Doctor may be a little too cool (the Doctor is a dork ass weirdo- that’s the only thing relatively consistent in the characterization).

Gatwa’s Doctor can’t go there, though- he needs Tennant to undergo the transformation and find connections, only to lose it when he regenerates.

I mean, this is a world where they’re routinely doing Sea Dragon launches- we can assume launches are way cheaper in their world, just by bulk. Given the escalation every season, I predict S5 will start doing the Orion program.

While I enjoy For All Mankind, let’s also be honest: it’s a soap opera that isn’t afraid to lean into some of the worst/best parts of being a soap opera. And characters routinely do such dumb shit that in the real world they’d be shitcanned in a heartbeat.

Man, Project Dorthy is a weird remake of a sketch I worked on a few years back.

I’m old and my family didn’t have a lot of money, so I grew up with the Go-Bots and understood how much of a knock off they were.

Deadline also reports Mena Suvari, Stephen Dorff, Dichen Lachman, Rosa Salazar, Lochlyn Munro, India Eisley, Sarah Dumont, Mark Boone Jr., Tom Berenger, Timothy V. Murphy, Sherman Augustus and Tyrese Gibson

Canon in Doctor Who is like the weather: wait a few minutes, it’ll change, and some bastard will be salty about what just happened.

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