With no feet.

Huh, I’d heard a lot of rumbling about a title change, but it always seemed to be speculation. Somehow I’d managed to completely miss the official announcement.

I’m not so sure, I thought I’d read somewhere that they were planning to recast, and as far as I know, the next Avengers is still The Kang Dynasty. I wonder if they’re holding off on Doom for the next ‘Saga’, if they ever get that far...

This feels like the ‘v’ in Batman v Superman, that I seem to remember Snyder informing people had a very good reason for being used instead of ‘vs’. I don’t believe he ever gave that reason.

Kotaku shut down commenting too? It really is only a matter of time for here, isn’t it? First they took our profile pictures, next they’ll come for us...

I liked the idea of Quantumania - take a hero who’s woefully underprepared to face that kind of epic conflict (practically) by themselves and throw them right in the middle of it and see how they cope - but the execution just wasn’t there. We know how well Rudd works as the group punching bag in an ensemble cast, so…

Concur. Priest-era BP nails it for me.

I haven’t seen anyone bring this up, but from the first trailer it seemed like this was very similar to the first game, from the same basic set-up to many of the same areas. I only played the original a couple of years ago on the Switch release, so it was all fresh in my mind. So I can’t really tell if this is more…

I’d watch that crossover.

Yeah, he could well be writing a second already, with such a long lead time on the second season. One Moffat a year is ideal, lets him come in with a short, sharp shock of a mind-bending idea without the risk of getting too bogged down.

Had they announced all the writers for the first season? Just because they’ve filmed it, doesn’t mean he didn’t write one and just kept it quiet until now.

There’s a Pratchett quote for everything.

I actually read something recently which seemed to suggest the ‘not allowed to be alone in a room’ thing was blown out of proportion a bit, and it’s more of a standard thing for protection of minors. I only came across it by chance though and didn’t dig any further into it.

I’ll give you Fugitive of the Jadoon, that was pretty good too.

I liked RTD when the show came back, but the longer it went on the more fed up I got with his tricks. I appreciate the effort he went through to bring the show back, but he’s much better at set-up than he is at pay-off. The finales for his seasons all seem to descend at times into juvenile nonsense, and I know it’s…

Yeah, that’s one of the many reasons I love Season 5. Going back through when you know where it’s all going is an entirely different experience that all holds up. 6 felt like it was trying a bit too hard to do the same thing, but I still think it worked really well. Plus it had The Doctor’s Wife, which might be the…

That’s fair, you really haven’t missed much the last few years. It’s gone from something I’d try to watch live to suddenly realising mid-week that there was a new episode from the weekend and I should probably go on iPlayer at some point.

Can we bond over a mutual dislike of basically everything Chibnall put out at least?

I think splitting producer and head writer is not a bad idea at all. I know there are producers too, but the head writer seems to take on a lot from what both RTD and Moffat have said. They also say just how exhausting it is to do everything, and I absolutely believe it. Leave the writers to write, have the…

Count me among the ones who liked Moffat as showrunner. I thought he ran out of steam the longer he went on, but as far as I’m concerned Series 5 is the best Doctor Who has been since its return.