You ever get that thing where you just can't stop screaming at something?

The Short Form Hugo is fuckin' weird, man. I'd say it's because there ain't much SF&F on TV, except there's bucketloads of it now, especially if you count capes, and the awards are willing to blur the lines and let a docudrama like An Adventure in Space and Time into the running. There are shitloads of weird omissions…

Yeah, I think it's bad. I don't think it's good. I think it's bad. I think that you can talk about specific things it does very badly and why they make it bad, which is as close as you can get to talking about something being objectively bad.

See, again, I know Broadchurch was successful, but I don't really like it. I don't think it was that good and I think its redeeming features have more to do with direction, location scouting and Olivia Colman. I don't think Chibnall's a good writer and in a just universe... well, you're right. Cyberwoman should've…

Are you reading my comments or just scanning for keywords? What part of me saying that Broadchurch was homophobic and overrated, and that I'd be fine with Chibnall getting stricken off the list, led you to believe that I'd be interested in him returning?

See, it's different there because Ford and Whithouse have both produced stuff that I think is good subsequently. So there's a record there. I'd be fine with Moran and especially Chibnall getting stricken from the record. I mean I know Chibnall's written some inoffensive episodes of Who, but I find him really bland and…

What do you have against Jane Goldman and Abi Morgan?

I liked her other series one episode better, the one where the small chartered plane jumps forward in time and we see the team try and help the three or four people who were on it adapt to the present. Then again, I also really liked the Sawney Bean riff from that series.

Those were both terrible episodes though. Torchwood is a terrible show. Plus the rest of her career is pretty much jobbing writer gigs on Casualty and mediocre cop shows for old people.

She does really surface level stuff. Basic primers, on par with a lot of readily available online material. Hell, a lot of her stuff feels like she's reading TV Tropes to Camera.

I am SUPER MAD at all this bullshit about lego being sexist. Mostly because when I was a little boy, I really, really loved the sets designed around building doll houses and I'm worried that the current verve might get rid of them.

Really reminds me of Dragon Age, and when you're as generic as a Bioware game, you've hit rock bottom.

I'd have to dig my copy out of storage, but either way, it does trouble the narrative by basically saying "Well they were basically medieval and it was a different time" regardless of whose identity is destabilized.

Didn't Vonnegut say that Bergeron was a farce targeted at the people who were worried about political correctness and concessions to the handicapped?

That's a retcon that resulted from the film's failure. The part he auditioned for became the Eighth Doctor when it was clear that Fox wasn't going to commission the new show. Would that have happened if he were in the part? Probably. But we'll never know and that definitely wasn't how Fox was looking at it back in the…

Actually, he didn't audition for the Eighth Doctor.

Why shouldn't we try and change other peoples' art? Art, commerce and politics have never been genuinely distinct in any sense, and the idea that they are distinct is a bourgeois pretension that's as ridiculous as the idea of pure research.

It was on a BBC factual comedy show. He was speaking in particular about things like rapid iteration and how the Pixar kids were married to their rigging and generating that automatically rather than manually?

Uh he said it like earlier this year when discussing a recent visit to Pixar and he cited specific aspects of drawn animation they had no analogue for so vOv.

Richard Williams once said that what Pixar does isn't really comparable to cel animation, it's a lot more like really, really precise and brilliantly done puppetry that relies on a whole different area of craftsmanship.