For me, it's hard to top the Paramount+ ad from a few years ago that gave us this:

I just assumed every British actor had to do a tour of duty...

I have a friend who tracks the leaks and rumours pretty regularly. It's madness.

First: Maybe it’s all just a coincidence. The leaks were unintentional, and that standout line in "Lux" is simply one of those absurd, once-in-a-blue-moon alignments of fiction and reality.

It's funny that this "possibility" hinges on the notions that leaks and rumours are some kind of new phenomenon that RTD wouldn't already have been intimately familiar with, and aren't completely predictable.

Second: Somehow, Russell T Davies had a prophet-like vision, saw it all coming two years in advance, and wrote it in.

This one gets my vote. It's got to be supernatural.

Third: What if the leaks aren’t accidental at all? There were a couple from the opening episode that were accurate, and now some in the follow-up. Perhaps they were planted deliberately, but only small, mostly harmless titbits, and are meant to prime the fandom discussions without giving too much away. The rest? A bluff, just noise to muddy the waters.

This one is actually plausible. RTD knows how to play the game. I don't think I'd go so far as to suggest he's planting "leaks," but he's never been above stoking speculation.

fourth...what if every single leak was planted as part of a larger meta-marketing campaign, with the story eventually folding that chaos into itself?

Okay...I don't really think so, but with the final episodes being called "Wish World" and "The Reality War", I wouldn't be at all surprised if there's some more meta-commentary along the way. As I mentioned in the discussion thread, I do feel like the trio of fans will return.

It was great. I had a ball doing that. And I mean, again, during the “Star Trek” world, it’s lovely people, and it was nothing but pleasure, and it was a dream wish fulfillment for me to be able to be in “Star Trek.” I play a very interesting, complicated guy, bad guy, I suppose. I’m a bad guy. Yeah, I guess I’m a bad guy. But yeah, so I dunno what more I can say about that without giving too much away.

I’m in more than one episode. I have a little arc through this season. I reappear and become more problematic as the show goes on.

I think the only path forward is for journalists to get serious about defining and protecting their job. No government is going to step in to do it because of the optics, but many sectors have colleges that define and enforce standards of behaviour.

It's time for journalists to step up and do the same.

I don’t doubt that this is true on balance

I know the questions keep coming up (and it's totally fair play), but...I don't have the impression that it's had any sort of impact on the electorate. Maybe I'm wrong.

Presumably a hint that there's a crossover with "The Tick" coming up.

I don't doubt that this is true on balance, but the Danielle Smith jokes practically write themselves...

Yeah, I've never been about "ratings" posts - they're not banned from the community or anything, but they seem to mean whatever the beholder wants them to mean.

The franchise will be fine, one way or another.

I guess it's possible that it was a Liberal plant, but it has big "man vandalizes own house" energy.

I am glad they did keep follow on with Belinda really wanting to go home

Belinda's character seems a lot more nuanced at this stage than, say, Martha Jones was in her second episode. She was very open to a little adventure...as long as it didn't delay her trip home.

They had no time at all - filming was already complete.

They were given a short amount of time (3 days IIRC) to film the epilogue, and by then most of the sets had been dismantled.

In terms of the makeup, I prefer the season two refinements. But I really like the cultural depiction of the Klingons in season one.

I think the word "movie" is a little misleading, but it makes sense that they would have wanted to do a full 2-hour "event" episode.

I’m pretty certain Who could have gotten around the Disco Klingon redesign much easier than Trek did.

Why do you have to give me flashbacks like that?

Sent to me by a friend:

SirPatStew has shared the anecdote, but it's reportedly something that Roddenberry said.

Interesting perspective, and one that I think is much more applicable to Classic Who, which was made very differently than the '05 iteration. RTD's first era shook things up with its "companion first" approach and single-episode stories.

Some of the issues weren't exactly unique to DW, though. Star Trek: The Next Generation started in the late 80s, and its characters are largely cardboard cutouts, especially in the earlier years. Depth of character was very rare before the late 90s.

Just the flexibility to get it done on your own terms, really.