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I have no idea if I'm going to like it - it's definitely not shaping up to be the story I had in my head - but I'm interested in seeing them do something different.

I missed the typo in the blog, but I did notice that German words have started to creep into English-language tweets.

I try not to begrudge YouTubers for playing stupid algorithm games, since it's apparently a necessity of one is to try to make an actual living over there. I also don't mind long-form content, in principle.

That said, I don't know this guy from a hole in the wall, and did not watch this video.

I agree, but I think the mystery of Ruby's mother is actually one of the better efforts. At least there was a point that RTD was trying to make, albeit an anticlimatic one.

Hey, we have checks and balances in place.

The Senate is occupied by two railroads.

There's a crossover going on with the DW and Lower Decks mobile games, but that's it.

Really, it was just an excuse to have a panel with Kurtzman and RTD taking about the respective franchises, and do some cross-promotion. It was low-impact, but in a way that was kind of charming?

Many years ago, my partner at the time and I used the previous iteration of the water bus to spend a day out.

It started to rain, and the boats stopped running, stranding us at the last dock we'd disembarked at. There was no warning provided, nor was there an easy alternative available.

So...I guess I hope this new company can clear that extremely low bar.

For now, I'm pretty content letting this just be a goofy mystery - I normally despise fan speculation, but I don't mind runaway fan theories in this case, probably because it hasn't been central to...anything, really. At least not so far.

A+ reading comprehension; I am ashamed.

No, it makes sense - a lot of what makes them so important is that they did a lot of things first, but they have been done since.

their music is sort of meh

Careful...

the climax that is apparently just about finding the right “anti-chord” to banish Maestro?

I think this is the most "magical" episode of the season by a large margin, and as much as this sort of resolution makes sense for that kind of story...you have to really nail the emotional truth of the story to make the anticlimax works. In that sense, I agree that this episode doesn't quite make it there.

And the woefully underdeveloped Lennon/McCartney just happens to wander through the halls of Abbey Road and hit the right note to fill the CGI power bar?

I actually kind of liked that moment, though it would have been nice for the Beatles to be more involved prior to that point.

the silent moment where the Doctor’s sonic cancels out all sound

Definitely the high point, dramatically speaking.

Shoutout to President Fauxbama in "The End of Time"...

If we had even a couple more users as dedicated as you, I think we'd be in great shape!

I think Lemmy as a whole is in a place where comments are tough to attract if the topic isn't a meme or something that makes people angry - I think that should sort itself out over time, but there it is for now.

I would definitely like to revisit the retrospective stuff, though - either NuWho or Classic Who (much of which I haven't seen). If a good excuse comes up to try again, I'll definitely do it.

I don't think I'd call it "great," but I don't think it's nearly as bad as many people think.

It suffers most from a visibly limited budget, and the fact that it occurs so early in the series that the actors hadn't really found their characters yet.

I'd love to visit the alternate universe in which it's a season four episode.

I enjoy this one a lot more in retrospect - the first time around, I didn't really connect with it, but there's some real good stuff in this one.

A few weeks ago, I went back and watched "Pyramids of Mars", and discovered that the scene where the Doctor brings Ruby to the "present" to reveal it's been devastated closely mirrors the Doctor doing the same to Sarah Jane in that story, which is appropriate since "Pyramids of Mars" is the debut of Sutekh.

A Beatles story without the notoriously expensive Beatles music was a unique challenge. I will say that the actor playing John Lennon absolutely nailed Lennon's mannerisms, particularly when singing in the studio.

I've had a lot of fun with these retrospective discussions, but I think we've hit the point of diminishing returns, and going further back into the archives right now probably wouldn't generate a lot of interest. Maybe we can revisit the concept in the future.

I'm not about to rewatch "Fear Her" to confirm, but I'm pretty sure he was on-screen.

Oh good, it's not just me!

TNG's "Thine Own Self" comes to mind - I guess because it has some similarities to "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood".

Also...dare I suggest that "Move Along Home" has a certain Whovian energy to it?

Not on the list, but the first episode that came to my mind was "The Fires of Pompeii" - it's basically a Prime Directive story.