In the RTD era, the idea was that when the Doctor ended the Time War he wiped both the Time Lords and the Daleks out of all history so that they never existed in the first place.

So while Vincent van Gogh and Adolf Hitler may be dead, if one is a time traveler you could still go back to late 18th century…Read more

Moffat, after delivering what were, arguably, the best stories of the RTD era sort of fell down on face when he was handed the reigns. Lots of solid ideas and concepts that never quite gelled into any kind of decent story. It was just a hot mess with a lot of crazy ideas that didn’t go anywhere.

I…Read more

I’m also not sure why the current run of the show is so…Read more

She would actually be my first choice, I would immediately retcon the whole “there were countless Doctors before Hartnell” business. Have the whole thing be some kind of plot by the Eternals or Guardians.

I also like the idea of having the next Doctor introduced in the middle of…Read more

I also greatly enjoyed watching Sequel Trilogy defenders — and The Last Jedi fans in particular — mansplain why Marcia Lucas didn’t like the movies, even though she outright stated why.

Been there, done that.

Just because Chekov didn’t appear until the next season doesn’t mean he wasn’t serving aboard the Enterprise at that time they recovered the Botany Bay. It’s not out of the realm of possibility that he was there for all of season one, and was promoted to the bridge…Read more

Regarding season three, it’s too bad they uploaded “Dark Awakening” with the revised ending instead of the original one.

They’re streaming some panels, presentations, and other stuff on startrek.com tonight. Looks to be a mixed bag with a handful of high profile special guests.

I’m just hoping we get trailers for Picard Season 2, Disco Season 4, and Strange New Worlds.

It’s sort of interesting how so many 80s and 90s movies just fall apart in the third sequel.

Poltergeist. Beverly Hills Cop. Robocop. Alien 3. Batman. Hell, even the Godfather.

Generally speaking, the fist one is a classic, the second one is often a retread (though not with Godfather II as such), and the third…Read more

Then I saw his episodes. And they were… not good. Cringeworthy. Probably the worst guest host of the bunch.

The best ones were Mike Richards, Buzzy Cohen, Mayim Bialik, and Joe Buck (which surprised me).

She will be hosting certain prime-time Jeopardy events and specials, though. (Tournament of Champions, and stuff like that. Maybe even prime-time “Celebrity Jeopardy.”)

That Marvel is going to soldier on with HoxPox, just adds fuel to that fire.

Seems like most of these 80s toy line revivals — He-Man, Transformers, GI Joe, whatever — are aimed at nostalgic adults in mid-life crisis mode. Most kids I know seem more interested in stuff like Minecraft, Pokemon, and Fortnite than they do about hoarding action figures. Give a kid money for his birthday, and…Read more

You have this guy, who lives a pretty comfortable upper-middle class life in New York City, and this one night, though an odd set of circumstances, finds himself trapped in the middle of a really terrifying experience that’s just completely above his level.

And another interesting scene is the one at the…Read more

While I have no doubt that…Read more

The Yetis kind of look okay, but the human characters look dreadful.

I guess this means that they figure there’s no chance they’ll get access to that particular episode, then? I sort of remember it was implied that Phil Morris knew where it ended up after it went missing, and was negotiating for it.

And I also can’t say I’m a fan of Disney changing the name of Boba Fett’s ship from “Slave-1” to “Firespray.”…Read more

If this takes off, you’re potentially paying hundreds of dollars a month to get the occasional e-mail or message from your favorite creator. And, since eve…Read more

Radcliffe was kind of a weak link, but, damn, it’s one hell of an ask to take a ten year-old and expect him to carry an entire eight-movie franchise until he’s twenty. Especially when he’s up against people like Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Richard…Read more

Which sort begs the question as to whether or not the Doctor is constantly changing events around himself as he gallivants around space and time in his TARDIS.

The Doctor is a Time Lord; he comes from a race of time travelers. Presumably, the Doctor and the Time Lords would know about a universal threat such…Read more

The casting for the Harry Potter films was really great… Alan Rickman, Gary Oldman, Maggie Smith, Kenneth Branagh, Robbie Coltrane, Helena Bonham Carter, Jason Isaacs, Julie Walters, Imelda Staunton, John Hurt, John Cleese, David Bradley, Ralph Fiennes,…Read more

I think a lot of it comes down to how aggressively someone wants to push something (see Marvel vs Defiant over the Plasmer/Plasm). Some things like Star Trek and Star Wars are, obviously, off of the table, and a lot of it comes down to how similar two things of the same title…Read more

And the original ending is better than the DC ending. If the “Superman spins the world backwards to reverse time” wasn’t bad enough the first time around, Donner gave it to us again. (And, yeah, I know that it was put in the first Superman movie even though it was originally…Read more

And, yeah, I know about Scotty in the movies.

It is, apparently, not a 100% effective process.

I mean, hell, it’s wizards and swords and magic and princesses with space ships and ray guns.

Bob Odenkirk collapsed on the set of Better Call Saul yesterday, while he was filming the final season of the tv series, and has been hospitalized. It’s been about ten hours since this was divulged, and there have been no updates on his…Read more

His last three films without her — Django Unchained, Hateful Eight, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood — all seem bloated as fuck. Like they’re an hour and a half of story stretched out to three hours. Tarantino films have always been slow burners, but the last three just seem to meander…Read more

Maybe that’s one reason why Star Wars has struggled to find an identity in the Disney era; it really…Read more

In some ways, it makes me think of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, where we revisit and old property after decades. It just makes me think that we should have gotten more movies in the 1990s when the casts were still young. I…Read more

For one thing, all Westerns are, ostensibly, the same. They all took/take place in the same late nineteenth century American milieu. Bonanza, The Rifleman, the Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns, and everything else mostly take place within the same historical context.

Whereas Star Trek,…Read more

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“A penis? Really?”
“Yes, it’s what the boss wants. A big erect penis.”