Noughties, not naughty 😂

Generally speaking, I have never been completely wowed by GM’s slightly kookier Alan Moore rehashes. Oh really, Grant, you’re a magician too now? 🙄 For anybody prone to really long reads, I recommend El Sandifer’s Last war in Albion for a deep, critical view on the two’s decades long “magic war”.

And while I never take things back, I do change my mind depending on time of day and/or median wind temperature. So there’s that.

That whole tying up of loose threads sounds dreary. Enough with the Tennant/Piper nostalgia already. Morrison is quite right that all of that is best left for quick quippy commentary while the show just gets on with the next iteration.

I also agree with their point that a full reboot would be throwing 60 years of lore out with the bathwater. What makes Doctor Who special is exactly all that baggage, littered across the universe and in the quantum backrooms of the TARDIS.

I don’t think the show needs another past-their-prime, self absorbed showrunner, though. People who recommend Grant Morrison for the position, or J Michael Straczynski for that matter, need to get their heads out of their noughties comic books.

Oh, they should know better by now. It’s like the Scottish Play curse. They discussed a crossover back when the Doctor Who revival first aired, and Star Trek Enterprise got cancelled.

This time crossover talks put both shows on indefinite hiatus. You don’t ever cross the streams, people. It’s just too much space-time continuity to bring together in one event.

“Let’s assimilate some Ferengi ourselves instead”

It helps in telling me it’s not the default behaviour I’m seeing, so thanks for that 🙂

“I said, ‘Well, you can cut that in half with no problem at all.’”

Next meeting, the engineering team showed up with 200 half tampons.

Sure. I’ll probably skip rewatching a good bunch of episodes, just because I’ve seen them so often. A bit of '00s TV grade CGI fatigue does set in. But a weekly discussion of 20 years old episodes, absolutely 🙂

Well, they’re public funded to a large degree. I don’t have any real insight into UK public service media and how the BBC ended up here, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this has to do with general public spending cuts to fund tax reductions 🤷

Not mine either, but I share your concerns. Doctor Who is clearly only a minor part of all this, in light of thousands of jobs on the line not even a significant part. Given the subject of this community, however… wanna bet this is going to affect the show’s future? 😣

I see you get your opinions prepackaged from YouTube. That’s an easy, instant block for me.

I’ll have to read up on how Sybok fits in. He was the result of Sarek having an “indiscretion”, yes? But I’m not clear on how early that was, or if he and Spock were raised together.

Oh well, time to rewatch The final frontier, I guess.

Self erasing time travel! Dream sequence! Mind wipe!

I trust Akiva Goldsman to come up with absolute nonsense to twist continuity for an indulgent fanboy stunt.

Oh, both of Spock’s secret, let’s never talk about them, siblings? I wouldn’t be that mad about it honestly.

Could well be Gooding, the lights in those helmets play tricks with my ability to identify the faces inside. I guess I’m just jonesing for some more Burnham. It would make sense to have a Michael cameo since she more or less told Spock to find someone like her, and here we see Spock reaching out to Kirk.

Also, in the trailer she’s lifting up a drone-ish looking gadget with red lights in it. Thought it might be the last red signal from Disco s2.

Hang on, was that Sonequa Martin Green very briefly in a spacesuit there? Watched this on my phone so I’m not sure…

No, the wish world setting was an odd one for the Rani to be in. I guess she was somewhat a scientist in unscientific circumstances, but… nah, it doesn’t make sense. All there is to say is, “Hoot, hoot! Quack, quack! Bye, bye.” 🤦

Oh, that ship has sailed, hasn’t it? I guess it’s Kamelion from here on out.

Archie Panjabi was the perfect, modern Rani IMO. Having her gulped down by a giant skeleton Omega was a big WTF (two, really), but I’m not here to patch over all of RTD’s weird choices. He left a lot of those behind!

If somebody were feeling cheeky, they could even add parts of the original “Reality war” ending in as an alternate timeline that the Reapers gobble up. The already shot Susan payoff, other bits of the scenes that ended up on the cutting room floor when they had to reshoot for Gatwa’s exit… etc.

The footage exists, most of it has to have gone through post production given how late they had to reshuffle the finale. Put it to good use, even if it would be to recognise it as a timeline we won’t see anymore of 😉

I guess it’s not so much a theory as an unsolicited pitch, but whatever. Glad you appreciated it! I had a chuckle myself realising how well they could tie “Father’s day” into the current situation.

And I genuinely think the BBC could sort a lot of it out with a relatively low cost Youtube release. Just clearing the board for the next writing and production crew.

NGL, I preferred SFA s1 over Prodigy s2. Yes it was bumpy, but it was growing into its own (beard). You can’t convince me the cancellation was anything but “we’re not having a show teaching kids tolerance and that other DEI stuff”.

I agree LDS was top notch, haven’t watched Scouts so I’ll reserve judgement 🙂