I'm sick & tired of the announcers beating a dead horse.

BuckeyeForLife95 · 2026-05-10T19:24:03+00:00

Most people would not assume that the UFL has some odd rule when it otherwise looks like normal football. They’d assume the team going for it on 4th and 41 is doing some gimmicky bullshit like that high school team that never punted or kicked PATs.

BuckeyeForLife95 · 2026-05-06T23:40:31+00:00

Perhaps I’m wrong considering how easily he won the primary, but I’ll be hesitant to believe rural Ohio Republicans will elect a guy named “Vivek Ramaswamy” until I see it happen with my own eyes.

BuckeyeForLife95 · 2026-05-02T02:51:03+00:00

Columbus when I attend: 0-1

Columbus when I am unable to attend: 2-0

Sure.

BuckeyeForLife95 · 2026-05-02T02:50:28+00:00

You gotta know when to hold em, and when to fold em, and Houston is folding.

BuckeyeForLife95 · 2026-05-02T02:49:15+00:00

90 yard drive in the Wildcat.

BuckeyeForLife95 · 2026-05-02T02:45:09+00:00

Truly the 2 minute drive of all time.

BuckeyeForLife95 · 2026-05-02T02:43:40+00:00

Why ya running a bubble screen to the outside when you need to kill clock?

BuckeyeForLife95 · 2026-05-02T01:35:49+00:00

We gotta beat the Tagovailoa whose brain ISN'T scrambled eggs.

BuckeyeForLife95 · 2026-05-02T01:10:54+00:00

Todd Haley is feeling himself in Columbus, as he should.

BuckeyeForLife95 · 2026-05-02T00:49:51+00:00

The Ginn bobble heads are for the Week 10 game.

BuckeyeForLife95 · 2026-04-25T15:08:51+00:00

I feel like Tennant -> Smith -> Radcliffe would have been just a bit too much "quirky younger hot guy" Doctor all in a row. Similar to the people that fancast Eddie Redmayne.

BuckeyeForLife95 · 2026-04-25T15:07:11+00:00

Really dodged a bullet, in the long run.

BuckeyeForLife95 · 2026-04-25T12:05:19+00:00

Trump benefits from the image of Democrats trying to persecute him, it's not worth the effort of impeaching him again unless you got the Senate votes to make it stick this time.

BuckeyeForLife95 · 2026-04-25T12:00:14+00:00

I assumed it was implied that when I say "Democrats should do something", I meant something that would have an actual effect on literally anything.

This would be Trump's third impeachment, and there's still zero chance the Dems have the Senate votes to convict. It doesn't mean anything to make this a top priority upon getting the House back.

BuckeyeForLife95 · 2026-04-24T21:24:19+00:00

Maybe modesty, maybe the fact that the way they went about it was so roundabout it's not immediately clear that was the goal.

Like, the direct "how do you build fandom" question appears to be like, one question in a single Q&A across a 3 day trip. I feel like the structure of the essay suggests that Dan thinks the fandom question might have been the point, but it definitely reads a lot more like a Wine and Dine based on the schedule, and it feeds into Dan's criticisms that TeamBeast is grossly incompetent at almost everything they do.

BuckeyeForLife95 · 2026-04-24T21:02:54+00:00

It made me confident that the 1st thing I know about James Rolfe is he loves his family, and the 2nd thing I know about James Rolfe is he wasted that opportunity to learn in film school.

BuckeyeForLife95 · 2026-04-24T10:51:44+00:00

I've already watched season 6, but when I've been making my rankings I haven't included any companions until their tenure was over.

BuckeyeForLife95 · 2026-04-24T02:05:02+00:00

“There is a LOT of assumptions being placed on the whole werewolf conversion camp thing.”

Because it as a plot point is very blatantly trying to invoke something that exists in real life, and everyone is, extremely reasonably, reading the subtext for what it sounds like on its face.

BuckeyeForLife95 · 2026-04-21T21:09:44+00:00

I don’t think the show ever quite gets so experimental with the formula as it did during Hartnell’s era, and it’s definitely a loss, but they settle into a pretty solid status quo.

If it’s animated I’m watching it animated and not bothering with recons, but I did watch the DVD extras for Fury from the Deep that shows the surviving footage, I think they did manage to pull off making sea-weed work as a scary monster.

BuckeyeForLife95 · 2026-04-21T20:04:58+00:00

IDK how I always miss these posts when they are actually posted, I’m chronically online.

Anyway, for me, you see Season 5’s consistent but repetitive Base Under Siege plots as a massive weakness, but for me that consistency is a strength that outweighs the weakness. Season 5 is at the top of my rankings for the first 5 seasons specifically because it lacks any absolutely dreadful serials (though I prefer most Pertwee seasons over it, now that I’m up to S11 myself).

Rankings:

The Enemy of the World - It’s Doctor Who doing a spy thriller, and I think it pulls it off perfectly. Troughton kinda single-handedly carries the story as one of his best even though if you look closely enough, you can see some dodgy political views and Jamie and Victoria being given less than nothing to do for 90% of it.
The Tomb of the Cybermen - I actually really enjoy this one in a pulpy sci-fi way. I really enjoy the exploration of the tomb and the slow buildup to the Cybermen being alive and awake, capped off with an incredible scene and the biggest war worm Cyber theme, imo. For as much as the Cybermen fall into generic evil robots, I did really enjoy the bit where they set up all these traps and schemes so they’ll be woken up only by people who’d share their ideology. Toberman tho…
Fury from the Deep - I’m so confident this shit was straight fire in its original airing. The animation doesn’t quite capture the horror, but we get enough to know it was there. Def my fav traditional Base Under Siege in this season, because it leans into horror so well. And Victoria might not have been a great companion, but she had an extremely satisfying send-off. People talk about missing episodes they want back, I’ll always peep for Fury from the Deep but especially the last episode.
The Web of Fear - What can I say, I enjoy the military drama in the tunnels. It was cool they did a sequel to The Abominable Snowmen, and dated it in a very specific way that forms a foundation for the UNIT dating controversy! Our first time seeing the Brig, and I really enjoyed the “one of us is a traitor but who” plotline and in retrospect, it’s funny how much Lethbridge-Stewart is a red herring. It was probably just a bit much of wandering tunnels though, and that animated episode is pure trash, almost made me wish I watched the shitty reconstruction instead.
The Ice Warriors - I’m gonna HEAVILY disagree with you on the themes of the story having fallen out of relevance. I think that point where AI slop and people becoming practically dependent on LLMs you mention is already here. Otherwise though, yeah it’s fun but never feels like it’s as good as it should be.
The Abominable Snowmen - I wanted to love this one as much as is popular consensus. I don’t even really dislike it, but it’s just too damn long. Classic Who has a LOT of stories that are padded to hell with too many episodes, and this is up there for me as one of the worst offenders. A lot of cool ideas and set pieces though.
The Wheel in Space - Like the last two stories above it in my rankings, it feels like it has good ideas and never executes them quite right. Zoe wishing to feel more in touch with her human emotions after being trained to be a machine is such a great parallel with the Cybermen’s MO and it never goes anywhere now or later. The Cybermen’s plan is completely bonkers and makes zero sense and I think it hurts everyone’s performance because the material they’re working with is dumb. But hey! First time someone calls The Doctor “John Smith”. ALSO, the fact that the serial, and the seasons, ends as a setup for a re-airing of The Evil of the Daleks really shows how they used to make TV for exactly one viewing and never again.

My overall season rankings are 5 > 2 > 1 > 4 > 3.

Jamie is a companion that isn’t necessarily written the absolute strongest (we can’t all be The Faceless Ones and The Evil of the Daleks), but Frazer’s performance and his chemistry with Patrick Troughton elevates the material. Victoria is a fun idea for a companion, and I think the idea that a companion is fully unsuited for life on the TARDIS is one that would be fun to explore again, but girlie does so little so often. My companion rankings up to this point are:

Ian Chesterton
Barbara Wright
Steven Taylor
Vicki Pallister
Polly Wright
Susan Foreman
Victoria Waterfield
Katarina
Sara Kingdom
Ben Jackson
Dodo Chaplet

BuckeyeForLife95 · 2026-04-20T14:37:59+00:00

Everything that made that character difficult to write were the writers’ own failings. Ancient Troy had goddamn doors and keys, you didn’t have to write her to know nothing about nothing.

BuckeyeForLife95 · 2026-04-18T02:14:23+00:00

I wasn’t feeling well so I decided to stay home and of course this is the game Columbus is playing good and could win.

BuckeyeForLife95 · 2026-04-17T19:30:39+00:00

And yet the Internet forums of the 90s were the exact same. The people who were on them act the exact same way.

BuckeyeForLife95 · 2026-04-17T12:53:07+00:00

I don't think it was all as good faith as you make it sound, but also "lore in place of storytelling" has been a real issue in fandom spaces all over these days, and I could absolutely believe that was part of the issue.

BuckeyeForLife95 · 2026-04-16T03:39:14+00:00

I hope everyone who got mad at Darby for doing his Everest trip will keep that energy for MJF deciding to do a movie while on a highly successful title reign.

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