This is why you give the property to Peyton Reed and the movie is the F4 coming back from space after going off on a mission the 60s.

It was a bit weird to realize that yes, they do need to explain what Captain Tsubasa even is.

.... you know, as far as rich people bullshit and even more specifically, Taylor Swift bullshit, I don’t see how ‘eh, yeah, I didn’t approve of this and they’re doing it because they want money’ is so terrible.

I don’t care about the show. I cared about what you were saying about narratives and how documentaries make those narratives. Like you say that it isn’t framed and then proceed to say ‘her haters get a lot of screentime and her screentime is all about her being condescending’. That’s framing! Again, it might the right…

I haven’t seen the show but this is blatantly... wrong:

I hated the DAO version of it, iirc. For me, what gambits did was allow me to automatize some tasks I didn’t find fun but that were overall important to the things I did find fun. So I could forget about healing and focus on the rest of the combat.

Setting up the gambits and figuring out your strategy was, for me, a really interesting andfun part of the game.

You might want to ask a Filipino about that.

The feasibility of that depends on the scale of the fields/farming operations. Harvesting is hard, grueling, thankless work which requires a lot of labor.

With farmers’ demand depleted, they can’t afford to pay their vegetable pickers. So instead of reaping that harvest and, at the very least, making sure their food gets eaten, acres of bell peppers and tomatoes and cucumbers are just sitting there in Florida, unpicked.

That’s how science and knowledge work. Groundbreaking work eventually becomes the ground itself, but it doesn’t mean that Freud’s impact in the history of psychology wasn’t enormous.

Or adopt a bunch of orphans with Tormund. Probably tons of those around.

He went north of the Wall with his favorite redhead. Not so bad.

I also think both Moffat and RTD came with very strong visions right out of the gate, while Chibnall took two years to make any sort of statement about his vision for the show.

I always cared more about the random non Time Lords that the Time Lords themselves. (One of my favorite things aobut how Moffat dealt with it is that he brought it back and then the Doctor visited once and fucked off, because she’s never liked Gallifrey as a real thing.)

Orphan 55 can totally join the terrible episodes list.

It’s an incredibly half-baked run. Most episodes have needed at least another pass, to cut out the extraneous stuff, cut characters, tighten the Companions’ roles and give the endings space to breathe.

It’s telling that when Moffat ran out of the ideas he had clearly been working on since forever, he went to a more grounded, less OTT version of the Doctor. Even the speechifying wasn’t so much about the Doctor being important, but using the Doctor to make unrelated points.

I think that for the people that disliked is that even Smith’s godlike status - which was ruthlessly deconstructed by the Twelfth Doctor era - was due to things he had done. This turns the Doctor into somebody very significant by virtue of what they were and what was done to them.

Waht did even happen in that episode.