I think we’re at the point her official screen credit now is “Poor Jodi Whitaker.”

Seriously. All available evidence (Attack the Block, Broadchurch) points to her being a perfectly capable actor. It’s a goddamn shame she’s been saddled with... *gestures around in the vague direction of everything*

#freeJodi

It’s very concerning, in fact. Chibnall isn’t exactly known for being able to polish scripts as the showrunner, let alone come up with concise stories on his own, so I shudder at the thought of him keeping eight episodes from not falling apart. My problem with him as the EP is he’s always doubles down on his…

I’ve since watched through “The Tsuranga Conundrum” but “Rosa” is where I noped out initially. As an American I felt weirdly...offended? Not in that I that I thought it was too preachy or “woke” but in that the British have plenty of their own racial trauma and a history of white supremacist oppression to grapple with…

I’m genuinely kind of baffled by this and I can’t figure out whether it speaks to some lack of confidence in Whitaker and Gill’s ability to carry the series on their own, a belief (or a mandate from above) that there has to be at least one male TARDIS crew member, or whether Chibnall just wrote himself into a corner…

So after two seasons of pretty much everyone saying that three companions is too many and there’s not enough room to focus on everyone and that it’d be better with just one or may be two at most, at least within the confines of modern Who, we’re apparently getting... three companions again.

But it did work. There are no three seasons in the history of Doctor Who as consistent as the Capaldi era, not even Hinchcliffe/Holmes. Easily the best stuff of Steven Moffat’s career since Press Gang.

Given that the “Timeless Child” throughline was by a long yard the worst thing about the last two seasons and that the few genuinely good episodes of this era have all been one-offs, the idea that Chibnall is concentrating more on a serialized plotline is the opposite of reassuring, as is the fact that he keeps…

I miss Bill!

It has definitely felt like a step back after the amazing Capaldi run.

I just hope Chibnall didn’t actually write most of the scripts, and that it is less of a kids’ show than it was last season...this run has been disappointing and I’d rather have a new showrunner than a new doctor

The twist is that Data realizes they can use the transporter to reverse the changes in DNA caused by the beach and everybody is happy and forgets about the whole thing a week later when Riker finds himself acting as first officer of a Klingon starship.

He was also quoted as saying, “On a mountain of skulls, in a castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood! What was will be! What is will be no more! Now is the season of evil!”

Yeah the major network news shows are a big part of why Trump won in 2016 and they’re still pretty crap today. CNN is WAY worse than it was back when TDS started.

“25 years ago, we created a show because our media wasn’t doing its job... we’ve landed now in 2021 where the media finally started doing its job and right-wing conspiracy theorists have decided that the media isn’t doing its job because it’s doing its job. It’s really wild,”

“He isn’t so reckless as to blame her outright for his death, but there’s a palpable change in tone when she enters the narrative. And while Argento is indeed a complicated person, the fact that she does not appear in the film to defend herself—nor do any of the other interviewees defend her—results in a biased…

I do not intend to see this, but here are my takes:

1) It just feels WRONG to see Bugs and the rest rendered in cutting-edge animation. Maybe some characters should stay hand-drawn.

2) I only saw the first Space Jam once, but my recollection is that Larry Bird made Michael Jordan look like Daniel Day-Lewis.

My overwhelming impression is that Tenreyro is like the new Barsanti, and I mean nothing about that as a compliment.

I love how this same writer has written not one but two posts about Teigen that have worked to minimize how fucked up it was to bully someone by telling them to kill themselves: “Teigen took accountability, apologizing to Stodden in a Twitter thread. But because she knew her past actions would overshadow the surprise…