B J O'Shea

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Absolutely, Edge of Destruction is a bottle episode because it reuses a pre-existing set & features just the regulars, End of the World required hiring out a location, casting several guest actors & also lots of makeup/prosthetic work for just that one episode

apparently bottle episode now just means an episode takes place (mostly) in just the one location/set rather than being the cheap one

(which reminds me, the whole adoption of Black Friday Sales in Australia really irks me! *that* feels far more like an Americanisation of Australia to me than Halloween growing in popularity)

I think the thing with Halloween as well is that, even tho it's *very* popular in America and the American version of Halloween is very recognisable, it's not inherently an *American* thing? Like if we were celebrating Thanksgiving that would be far more blatant Americanisation y'know?

what is this neon genesis evangelion

(also, lol, did they *ever* use retcon in Dr Who proper? so that would be grabbing an idea from a spin-off that aired about 6 years previously which would *still have to be explained* for the audience because this isn’t some common plot device Dr Who uses every other episode)

Surely as well there’s an aesthetic choice being made here? Retcon is a drug, more modern more urban more cyberpunk in a way. A memory worm is more fantastical and Weird(tm), it’s suggestive of a slimy lil critter & of course there could be strange and unusual critters in steampunk London y’know?

i got to read the hobbit in high school

god a young tory dressing up as the seventh doctor from dr who and seemingly not realising who the villain in the classic 1988 seventh doctor serial the happiness patrol was based on

Oh god no

Yeah this is the thing really: it isn’t that doing a comedy gig in Saudi Arabia is somehow beyond the pale (maybe questionable, but ok go do comedy shows in some Saudi bars I guess?), it’s participating in a comedy festival organised & bankrolled by of all people the fucking Saudi royal family?

This sounds awful, I'm really sorry :(

So much for the tolerant right

...surely this is literally the bare minimum one expects of a party now in government, with a majority, & with its cabinet ministers directing policy & agendas for departments to put into practice? like ofc as the opposition labour wasn't doing any of this

but... rtd did build to ten's reunion with rose. and rtd had ten leave rose with his clone in a parallel universe when they did finally reunite? like that was rtd?

surely the other part of character development is that the character *develops*. they start out in one place and then, through their actions & experiences, come to a new place. *staying* in that one place without changing or moving on stagnates the character

reject modernity (the personal automobile)
embrace tradition (public transport)

Yeah this feels possible? I know Dicks claimed something he did as script editor was talk through story ideas with his writers before they put pen to paper (so that the writers had a brief to work to)

They definitely know that it isn't, & that's the point. If antifa *was* an actual organisation then their target is smaller & limited, but they don't want a small target.

The Jimmy Kimmel firing, Colbert's show, what's happening at WaPo, CBS... legacy journalism is slowly but surely coming under state control.

It is more important now than ever before that we support the independent journalists out there doing the work not beholden to a fascist's bidding.

Happy birthday 🎉🎉

Gaza City mosque blown up by Israeli air attack Israeli forces bombed and destroyed a 13th century mosque in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City on Tuesday.

My rage knows no bounds

To be fair up-thread you did say these affected titles (plural), which could imply Moonraker (mentioned further up-thread) was also caught up in this

Yeah from what I understand, *Spy Who Loved Me* (the film) had *nothing* to do with the book. Completely original story there. Whereas even if they took a lot of liberties, other Bonds still used a lot of the characters & settings from their books

Hi so just to repeat, what the fuck

i'm sorry but *what the fuck*

I'm not sure - there was definitely the pre-existing genre of "calm rational atheist DESTROYS creationist", & this feels like an adoption of that new atheist tactic

If you look at the history of Europe, you'd know that Europe's borders have constantly been in a state of flux. That its languages and dialects are rich, varied and changing. That European cultures have long grown from exchange with one another & the world outside