THIS IS A FIGHT. WE ARE FIGHTING

it felt very significant to me that Wanda was looking right at the camera/”us” when she said “help him, Vision” in the first episode. maybe I’m reading into it but I had strong echoes of the character who spiked the camera in the Mr. Robot finale, which was directly bringing the viewer into the narrative

personally the lack of ties to the wider MCU is kind of exactly what has me so excited about this show. although Oscar Isaac as Moon Knight (who objectively, as a character, kicks ass) and Benson/Moorhead directing is certainly not hurting my excitement either. I’m far more interested in this project than the other…

I would be quite curious to see it in play form as well because all the things that bothered me about the movie - the staginess of the blocking, how it just cycled from one big monologue to another will some not terribly engaging filler in between - wouldn’t ring quite as false in a theatre setting

I think the way it’s written suits the characters, who are just ordinary dudes caught up in a truly insane situation, and a big part of the movie’s appeal for me is how straightforward the characters are and their relationship to each other. But yeah, the character work is offset by some truly creepy moments

glad I wasn’t the only one who thought Ma Rainey was flawed, though certainly not without things going for it on the positive side too

god, Resolution is so fucking great. one of my favourite horror flicks of the decade

the first 7-8 minutes when it’s purely confined inside the dude’s house is some of the greatest TV I’ve ever seen. and then the rest of the episode is a different, but equally brilliant level of quality

I enjoyed both of those movies, haha. The Visit was just some funny B-movie schlock with more energy than the movies he’d been making for a decade; I rented it for a late-night hatewatch and was surprised how much I was genuinely invested in it. as for Glass - well, it’s a self-indulgent mess, but honestly not more so…

for all Shyamalan’s faults - and they are many - I don’t think he ever quite forgot how to frame a scene, or place the camera in the perfect spot for maximum impact. the man made some powerful images

that bothered me about Hell Bent the first time I watched, but honestly, it’s more of a subversion than a throwaway. I don’t think we were ever gonna get a storyline where The Doctor settles back into Gallifrey and wanders around his hometown nostalgically - it’s just too far from what the character has become and…

I can understand where fans who hopped on with Tennant or Smith would be put out with Capaldi, but ironically for all Chibnall’s talk of returning the show to basics, Capaldi’s arc is the one that made the new series feel most like Classic Who to me. I mean, One’s arc is fundamentally exactly the same as Twelve’s,…

The lack of emotional fallout from the River twist is a huge misstep, for sure, but if I remember right Moffat’s guilt over not handling that properly was a major influence in him writing Heaven Sent, a full-length bottle episode that explicitly reckons with themes of grief and loss in a way Doctor Who has never done…

She is most definitely a great actor - her performance in Broadchurch alone is enough evidence of that. if you need more compare her turn in Black Mirror to the comedy chops she showed in Attack the Block. hell, she’s had plenty of great moments in Doctor Who even when the episodes have been dreadful

I'll happily argue with anyone alive or dead that Heaven Sent is the best episode in the entirety of the show's run. It is a stone cold masterpiece that somehow gets better with every rewatch

If I had any faith that this writing team could pull off a sustained character arc like that, I might be optimistic, but I really just don't. It also feels just weirdly condescending to me that the best arc they could think of for Yaz is, like, redoing Martha again? The character could be so much better if you used…

13 is my favourite Doctor too, although a big part of that is down to the absolutely magnificent Peter Capaldi, who is if you ask me the best actor to ever have the role. But his Doctor was also just a masterclass in doing a small, self-contained arc, from an acerbic and alienating Doctor to possibly the kindest and…

I wish there was a way to keep all the good decisions of the Chibnall era (the casting, especially Jodie; the really smooth-looking CGI and cinematography; the focus on historicals and more down-to-earth characters) without, to put it simply, his writing. Every now and then he does churn out a decent episode, like The…

in total fairness this episode was written and filmed quite a while ago, but it would have been so easy to just edit out the Harry Potter reference if they really wanted to... having that *and* noted creep John Barrowman in the same episode was a one-two punch of yikes from me

Capaldi’s middle season is the peak of the whole show, by some distance if you ask me. S5 was fucking fantastic too, and my nostalgia for it is intense, but S9 was the one time I felt this show could genuinely stack up against prestige TV.