Me a week ago: I wouldn’t blame Disney for pulling out, Doctor Who deserves to die after The Reality War, I love RTD but he’s totally washed

Me now: ooh yay, new Doctor Who confirmed!

Similar to Doctor Who in the mid-80s. Cancelled and revived very quickly, but all stories they had in the works dropped, and even with only half as many scripts to write they were in a real bind (though there were some extraordinary circumstances too in that instance)

I’m reminded of Blake’s 7, which functionally ended after three series but was unexpectedly revived for a fourth. Production had to start from scratch, including contract negotiations with actors, and even with an 18 month gap they were really pushed for time with some of the first scripts.

It is slightly mad how big it was looking back. Like, my sister didn’t ever dress up as a Disney princess but she did have a Thunderbirds uniform

Clint Eastwood is older than Charles Lindbergh Jr

Headline saying Nadine Dorries has “defected” to Reform

It’s not a defection if they’re not an MP!!!

The Thursday Murder Club must be the most expensive episode of Midsomer Murders ever made (while also being quite a bit worse than your average Midsomer)

They’re appalling bad for finding everything other than franchise/children’s stuff. Wonder if this is because in the US a lot of this ends up on Hulu instead of Disney+, so it’s less of a priority to separate them

*56 hours. Bad maths

Lowkey the most interesting bit of Harry Potter world-building is that Major is Prime Minister for most of the buildup of the wizard war and knows about it, but Tony Blair is PM when it ends. Like, do they ever talk about it afterwards? They better address this somewhere in the show’s 72 hr runtime

It’s like each episode was expecting the other to do the heavy lifting, and both lack spectacle as a result. I suspect that RTD expected Gatwa to make more of an impression in The Giggle, but he sort of gets lost against Tennant and NPH.

I’ve generally liked RTD2, but Church/Space Babies to open were… odd choices. Even beyond the superficial off-putting aspects (singing goblins, talking babies) neither episode is very well put-together, and I find it staggering that neither have a big “fuck yeah, here’s the new Doctor” moment.

I sometimes wonder if 121 seats in July was actually quite a lot, all things considered

Increasingly glad that David Cameron was able to call a referendum and put Farage’s electoral threat to bed, right? Right??

As well as cherry-picking, it sometimes feels like the argument boils down to “the Doctor is a force for good, and *my* politics are good, so the Doctor and by extension the show must agree with my politics”

No, streaming service, I do not actually want to watch the last thirty seconds of the episode I watched previously

Funny how these hard truths will all perfectly align with her own beliefs

Who can’t love a story that features this list?

I only really fell in love with it when marathoning all of Classic Who. Whereas my thoughts about other eras didn’t really change much between dipping in at random points and watching everything in order.

I think the Hartnell era is the only classic one where you really gain something from watching it all in order.

I find “is Die Hard a Christmas movie” discourse so boring. We should be having more “is On Her Majesty’s Secret Service a Christmas movie” discourse

I don’t know about anybody else, but I always feel like Netflix shows set in the UK have this slightly uncanny valley feel to them? I know it was a deliberate creative decision in Sex Education, but it even extends to other stuff

“Dewey Cox has to think about his entire life before he plays.”

A very efficient vote share isn’t far from becoming a very inefficient vote share

Hard to believe John Thaw was only 23 here

In fairness, I’m not entirely convinced that the Opposition has cottoned onto this yet

The election coverage was very guilty of this. “Sorry for bothering you with all this nerd stuff, like actual results” told to people staying up five hours after the exit poll

I think the “brain doesn’t stop developing until 25” myth hasn’t helped either, lending it some false sense of legitimacy