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I had never heard that "Father's Day" had been set to be an unplanned Doctor-lite episode.

one went verbatim, in its entirety: “Doctor Who’s Ncuti Gatwa withdraws from BBC role - and here’s who’s replacing him”

The baitiest clickbait of all.

Yeah, we've seen similar circumstances with Shirley and Morris. And, I guess, Rose Noble.

In principle, I don't hate the idea - it can help make the organization seem big and busy, if they do it right. Sending Mel off to investigate Sydney Harbour in "Lucky Day" was a fun way to lay some groundwork for the spinoff.

I'd completely forgotten that Susan Triad joined UNIT at the end of season one...

I'm not normally one for fan chants, but that was good comedy.

They've now identified the victims.

Depending on the circumstances, they could just be respecting the families' wishes.

I was never any good with music theory, but I knew someone would appreciate it.

Clothes very similar to the stereotypical “african clothes”

Could you expand on that, ideally with pictures of what you're talking about? L'Rell's outfit, for example, hardly screams "Africa" to me.

they got the actor of Tyler as a way to have an “exotic” accent

"Exotic" meaning what? Which race is he mimicking?

voodoo religious rituals

I know very little about the Voodoo religion, so could you please tell me which of its rituals were incorporated into the show?

they commit terrorist suicide attacks as well

And this is a known racist trope about Africans (since you seem to have settled on African, or at least "Black" stereotypes)? Because otherwise, you seem to be saying it's a racist depiction of...a bunch of different races, based on the fact that the characters do things that humans also do sometimes.

Or to make it more obvious, they are shown like “exotic brown people who hate the white ones

"Brown"

They played a good game last night, but things are looking rather bleak. I know Hellebuyck gets a lot of the scrutiny, and I get it, but they've got to get the offence going, and they really need to avoid those costly defensive breakdowns and penalties.

That would be a question for Bryan Fuller. He's recently started to talk about this stuff, so maybe we'll get an answer some day.

One thing I do think someone said along the line is that they wanted to establish why the Klingons and Starfleet hate each other so much in TOS.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: if they ever do an oral history of the development of that series, it will be a juicy read.

It's not in the article, and I don't think I've ever seen an "official" answer, but...I do think "because we can" is a valid answer. It was valid when they did it with TMP, and it was valid the subsequent times they tweaked the makeup.

In terms of how it served the story being told...I can see the appeal of having more alien-looking, "scarier" Klingons in a season that was ultimately about the dangers of xenophobia.

Wut?

I always kind of liked the Kelvin Klingons.

Well, the makeup, anyway. I don't care for the costumes at all.

I think the cranium size was the biggest "miss" in the design - I quite liked the season two iteration of the same basic ideas.

I certainly agree that it needs government oversight and attention. A ministry, though...I'm not convinced, and inclined to think the worst when "we'll use AI to fix the government" was a consistent taking point during the campaign.

But it was rightly pointed out that AI is only part of the name. I'd just as soon it not be there, but we'll see what happens.

I guess Ben and Adam aren't aware of, or forgot about, the Great Title Change of Season 3.

I don't know if there's any scenario where I think it's worthy of its own ministry.

Former journalist Evan Solomon takes on a newly created role as minister of artificial intelligence.

Ugh.

That episode had such a high body count, who can say?

I think people can forget just how bloodthirsty RTD can be.