Ncuti Gatwa is a fantastic Doctor. Millie Gibson was a fine companion, if unremarkable. The increased production value thanks to Disney and the basically competent direction that was lacking under Chibnall’s era were nice (more the direction than the money, if I’m being honest).
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As for that bat-dog of a finale... ugghh.
I knew it wasn’t going to be great after part 1, and RTD doesn’t have a great track record for season endings anyways, but the entire thing felt like half-an-idea scribbled in crayon on a cocktail napkin that was never fully plotted out. There were multiple ways they could…
The writing is simply awful - nonsensical, illogical, random and cartoonish. Nothing about this iteration of Doctor Who is in any way science fiction - it is pure fantasy, and poor fantasy at that. Gatwa is charming, but the constant, hyperkinetic and utterly unearned exuberance he shows, especially with regard to his…
It was a mess. The best episodes of the season were “Boom”, “Rogue”, and “Dot and Bubble”*.
All the other episodes ranged from alright to WTF. “73 Yards” seems like the kind of thing that’s good, and it probably would have been if this was an anthology SF series, but when you step away from it and look at it in the…
I hear there are some evil oil barons eyeing the property.
“Project Hail Mary” is by Andy Weir. You’ve got it listed as “Christopher Weir”, which is not correct.
You gotta be real careful with those die-cut, foil-embossed variants.
This episode definitely couldn’t find its focus, and splitting its attention across 400 different threads while Morris kept nattering was annoying. Of the random interesting folks that UNIT has brought into things, Morris was not one of their best. Wesley Crusher but more annoying and less useful. In an episode…
Also, make sure you pull the same trick three times in the same episode.
And you’d better animate the letters switching around too, just in case the audience is too stupid to know how anagrams work.
No, that’s just Sutekh’s incredibly lame “harbinger” cleverly named Harriet Arbinger.
I guess they felt the need to distinguish the MARVEL COMICS from the MARVEL SUPPOSITORY PRODUCTS division.
The new Ultimate Universe has been amazing so far, but it’s also amazing how different every book is. Ultimate Spider-Man is “What if an older, married Peter Parker became Spider-Man?”, Ultimate Black Panther is “What if T’Challa was part of a Dune-esque prophecy,” The Ultimates completely flips the script on the…
It’s quite possible people who would have watched on iPlayer in the past are watching on D+
I don't think anybody's lost that ability, they're just less willing to invest a small fortune to go see these movies when they can wait until they come to Netflix and vaguely watch them while folding laundry.
So... don’t go?
It’s too bad Cheetah is DC because I’m pretty sure Ryan Reynolds would have moved Heaven and Earth to have Taylor Swift play a cat-themed person in a Deadpool movie.
It’s less "I'm retiring after this" and more "Raul Julia's last movie was Street Fighter, I don't wanna be remembered like that."
Now I need to get caught up on Wallace & Gromit as the last thing I saw was Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
British culture has long revolved around classism. It’s used in a lot of our stories. Initially Lindy comes across as one of the upper class, looking down on the equivalent of servants in a world where the Dot has largely replaced the servants. The old school landed gentry could barely do the simplest of tasks. This…