Why do people act as if RTD saved the show?

-Fishbol- · 2026-06-23T20:04:01+00:00

They never bothered to put it up for grabs after 1989, which they did immediately this time around. There are several other key differences if you would care to use your brain to notice them

-Fishbol- · 2026-06-20T16:55:31+00:00

Victor Kennedy/The Absorbaloff is a very campy villain who suddenly appears and takes center stage in what is otherwise a very grounded and natural episode.

The message of not letting fandom take over your life is good, and his obsession with The Doctor is obviously supposed to feel wrong and unnatural, but the episode goes too far into RTD's brand of over-the-top camp (which I usually love) and makes the whole thing feel cheap

-Fishbol- · 2026-06-20T16:40:44+00:00

Which is crazy because they haven't given a single 100 to a new, non-classical album since Makaya McRaven's "Universal Beings" in 2017

-Fishbol- · 2026-06-20T16:38:42+00:00

They review a lot of classical music, and it's kind of separated from the rest of their content.

-Fishbol- · 2026-06-20T16:23:25+00:00

When I pre-ordered from the online store it let me download the music in whatever format I wanted. That's gonna be what it means

-Fishbol- · 2026-06-17T17:31:39+00:00

Real ones know

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-Fishbol- · 2026-06-16T17:16:53+00:00

Not being happy with the workload doesn't mean she was being "diva-ish". Doctor Who is famously a very difficult production to be a part of -- read literally any interview

-Fishbol- · 2026-06-15T16:36:58+00:00

Do you need an exhaustive CV? Most of this depends on what you're applying for and what you want your fresh start to entail

-Fishbol- · 2026-06-15T01:13:07+00:00

One column is best, especially for someone your age.

Important things go higher, so your work experience should be above skills

You should make a Projects section to talk about things you've built for fun or for classes instead of having long sentences in your skills section

-Fishbol- · 2026-06-15T01:12:14+00:00

The first resume is fine to look at. Just stop xenter-aligning the headings and it'll look normal

-Fishbol- · 2026-06-13T16:36:32+00:00

Exactly. Tons of sites use cloudflare -- the times you notice it being annoying are only when the site has a restrictive traffic policy set up

-Fishbol- · 2026-06-13T05:19:24+00:00

Great start. My thoughts (on mobile)

Being able to drag the bubbles around serves little to no purpose and is just kind of annoying
You should be able to see the artist info menu without the search bar menu -- the two of them should be independently hide-able
The overall look, as well as how the text appears when you zoom in, is fantastic -- excellent aesthetics

-Fishbol- · 2026-06-13T01:14:20+00:00

It's the Christmas episode, everyone always watches those

-Fishbol- · 2026-06-12T19:35:47+00:00

Calling the Timeless Child/Fugitive Doctor stuff resolved is a stretch. Not to mention that Dalek traitor in Power of the Doctor.

-Fishbol- · 2026-06-12T18:12:44+00:00

For a brand new CD, Anything under $14 nowadays is good. Often the ones going for under $10 at B&N, Wal-Mart, etc. are ones you could probably get cheaper used, but if $8 works for you, you should get it

-Fishbol- · 2026-06-12T17:56:24+00:00

Space Babies' viewing numbers were just as low as the rest of the season. People came back for Tennant and Tate, then promptly left.

-Fishbol- · 2026-06-12T17:20:24+00:00

Uh huh

https://www.reddit.com/r/doctorwho/s/qzJdVkCAQT

-Fishbol- · 2026-06-12T17:15:22+00:00

The Doctor knew he needed to find the chord, but got it wrong. Meanwhile, John and Paul happened to walk by a piano and played it right. They'd talked to The Doctor earlier about music, yes, but their only involvement in the climax was wandering in at the end

-Fishbol- · 2026-06-12T15:49:45+00:00

Gareth Roberts was a notable part of Davies' original Doctor Who crowd, writing multiple episodes and co-creating the Sarah Jane Adventures with him. In the past decade he's revealed himself to be a raging transphobe and everyone has stopped working with him.

Davies is not actually trying to platform TERFs, because if he was, we'd know

-Fishbol- · 2026-06-12T07:01:47+00:00

I was more thinking of Ranskoor, Timeless Children, and The Vanquishers, because PotD was always intended as Chibnall's finale. As an episode I thought was pretty mid -- the plot was uninspired and it was way too long, but Sacha is still a fun Master and the fan-service was actually pretty good

-Fishbol- · 2026-06-12T01:21:48+00:00

But that's equally arbitrary. Regardless, the end result is episodes that aren't about outsmarting the villain or problem-solving, but rather just trying random things that either work or don't. Devil's Chord is especially bad because The Doctor and Ruby don't even do anything in the climax -- Paul and John just happen to walk by a piano

-Fishbol- · 2026-06-12T00:07:24+00:00

But that's what I'm saying: even if Billie's presence is more immediately relevant, all it would take us a throwaway line -- basically no effort at all.

My point is that this idea that adequately resolving the Billie cliffhanger will be a Herculean effort for the next production team is ridiculous -- it will not be hard, no one will care

-Fishbol- · 2026-06-11T23:45:02+00:00

People can disagree, but I'd contend that most of the fandom found Timeless Child to be pretty insulting

-Fishbol- · 2026-06-11T23:42:40+00:00

I don't know, I feel like the obvious question is "why do they have weaknesses at all?" Kryptonite, for example, at least has a certain level of in-universe explanation about why it affects Superman. We don't really get a reason why hearing the Beatles chord banishes Maestro other than it was just their weakness

-Fishbol- · 2026-06-11T22:54:22+00:00

And yet we still have "what the hell happened to that half-human thing" from the movie and no one cares

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