but don’t bring in such a silly argument like that into the equation. certain physical characteristics are more noticeable than others.

Sure. Do you? Because it’s almost certainly society that tells you that (let’s face it) quite light skin on a black woman counts more against “close to what I remember” than an extremely in your face feature like height does.

I feel the need to point out that any white actress they cast wouldn’t look exactly like the Arial you remember either, even if they exactly matched the color of her skin and hair to the cartoon. So the question I ask you to mull over, if you really think you’re not being racist about this, is why does her skin color…

I saw someone on Twitter mention Winston Duke, and yeah he’s kind of young but it also just feels right.

I’m leaning towards the ”Chibnall is an old school Who fan” theory, personally! (That and yeah, I think they wanted to play it safe in at least one area.)

I really like her as the Doctor, and all of the companions, actually, but my problem with the season was the stories. They were all very traditional Who, very safe, and in the end it made the season as a whole a little boring. And I say that as someone who loves old Who. Any of them could easily have been slotted in as…

Funnily enough, this weekend I watched a random one of those “cast and crew of Good Omens answer tweets” YouTube videos, and Neil Gaiman answered one with something along the lines of having spent the last 20 years ‘killing bad Sandman adaptions’. So one actually moving to production must have a killer script.

That’s not at all how this sort of thing works. From the description in the article, these people are full time employees of Volt, which in turn is contracted to provide QA employees to another company. They are colloquial-definition contractors, not legal-definition Contractors, which is hugely common for all sorts…

Hahah, fair!

I 100% agree. I loved the first three or so, and reread the first in particular several times. Then I gave up and swore to not read another word until the series was complete after finishing 5? 6? and realizing not one plot line or character had advanced in the entire massive tome.

I am, however, a big fan of the god’s work, despite living in New England and my bout of literal vitamin D deficiency a couple of years back.

I’ve never met the sun god, whereas I’ve lived with my brother, and met Sun Ra in a jazz club in Philly as a very small child sometime in the late 70s/early 80s.

...how many Ra’s do you even know? I personally only know 3, one of which I’ve never met: Sun Ra, my brother, and the Egyptian god.

People are weird.

Oh, massive amounts. Some bands get more written about them than others, and MCR and some associated bands (mostly Fall Out Boy and Panic!) were topping the lists in the mid-2000s. They moved into the vacuum left when the boy bands started breaking up. Real Person Fiction is somewhat controversial, though, and…

I can beat that story. I ended up reading some MCR fanfic in around 2008/9 (which would have made me 33-ish), looked up a couple of their songs for context, and discovered that they were fantastic and turned into a superfan.

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Some shows have had better individual episodes or arcs or short runs, but for my money, Season 1 is still the single best 20+ episode season ever made.

One of the greatest lines in scifi.