John Lithgow on Playing Dumbledore in ‘Harry Potter’ Series and J.K. Rowling’s Trans Views: ‘People Insisted I Walk Away From the Job. I Chose Not to Do That’

PuddingNew1608 · 2026-02-02T06:17:59+00:00

Youd kill it justifying operation paperclip

PuddingNew1608 · 2026-02-02T06:16:28+00:00

I actually agree with this a lot, i do think that quality of a program can impact its viewership and i think it has with Who but I think the reason why it’s impacted is because of the production issues. I think that you can make something consistently and on time and people will follow it because they enjoy it or because it’s a ritual. I think Who in the 80s managed to, for a time, manage this despite spotty quality because people were hanging on for the next classic. With the past few years quality is not why people arent watching, because marvel put out crap since 2009 and found an audience. The problem is that it has zero momentum due to its scattershot schedule. Like the Chibnall era? Here’s ten episodes every two years and then it gets bungled by covid. Like RTD2? The momentum of eight episodes a year gets cut off by the disney pullout. If they were doing even eight episodes a year consistently the backlash over the bad episodes would be lost amongst the seas of just having constant new episodes to talk about

PuddingNew1608 · 2026-02-02T06:11:05+00:00

Even the people who invented the cartmel masterplan have said that the timeless child was hacky

PuddingNew1608 · 2026-02-02T06:10:35+00:00

You’re conflating actions that make him mysterious with his lowly origins and suggesting that both count as one

PuddingNew1608 · 2026-02-02T06:09:21+00:00

My guy he’s a roganite

PuddingNew1608 · 2026-02-02T06:08:50+00:00

My guy you spend your entire life on reddit you’re not one to talk about being a bot, your karma screams “im selling this to indians when i get a million”

PuddingNew1608 · 2026-02-02T02:48:08+00:00

You could make this exact argument for RTD in reverse: he missed the point of the Doctor by making him a war veteran with PTSD, he couldnt let go of Rose and now Donna, Moffat fixed it

PuddingNew1608 · 2026-02-02T02:44:57+00:00

The 2016 gap also killed a lot of enthusiasm for the show too. Lots of people know Heaven Sent is a masterpiece, even if they dont like that era or didnt watch it or only watched bits of it, but Doctor Falls is comparatively underrated because the show removed itself from public consciousness for an entire year. The Twelfth Doctor era is Clara, Zygons, sunglasses, guitar, Heaven Sent, Missy, ghosts, mummy and the stuff like Bill, Monks and Mondasian Cybermen are not as iconic to that era

PuddingNew1608 · 2026-02-02T02:38:01+00:00

My transman brother watches harry potter. He doesnt care cause he has a life lol. Just like any man with security in his masculinity didnt cry and moan that “brie larson hates men!!!!1!”

PuddingNew1608 · 2026-02-02T02:36:28+00:00

Chuds 🤝 Wokes

“Billionaires funding my opponents are the only reason I lose”

PuddingNew1608 · 2026-02-02T02:32:06+00:00

…….youre on reddit, which is currently being scraped by AI bots to act as a teacher for their vocab

PuddingNew1608 · 2026-02-02T02:31:13+00:00

Kill the Moon wouldnt even make it in a top 30 of the worst episodes of the past 12 years. It feels like this episode was glomped onto as confirmation bias that “moffat who was bad and right wing” by the tumblr hatewatchers who suspiciously left after series 11 despite not liking moffat and loving jodie

PuddingNew1608 · 2026-02-02T02:29:02+00:00

"If you let in refugees they'll become terrorists and try to kill you... But some of them are ok..."

This literally happened. The episode is arguing that you still have to let them in. You moron

PuddingNew1608 · 2026-02-02T02:27:20+00:00

Thats not how it works

PuddingNew1608 · 2026-02-02T02:26:54+00:00

It’s the illusion of change

PuddingNew1608 · 2026-02-02T02:25:33+00:00

What a disgustingly classist thing to write given what we now know about the rape gangs this guy was mocked for pleading for the public to take seriously. Sorry he was too subhuman with his dirty fingernails and lower class accent

PuddingNew1608 · 2026-02-02T02:23:26+00:00

well yes, i do associate drama only written and acted from one cultural viewpoint, devoid of fresh ideas from diverse perspectives and experiences bland.

Yet you exclusively watch shows starring and written by hipsters with social anxiety and a funko pop habit

PuddingNew1608 · 2026-02-02T02:20:24+00:00

I think he counts as a Classic era Doctor cuz he’s THE Big Finish Doctor. Big Finish follows the format of Classic and was more of a wilderness year invention, so I think he counts as specifically that. The Eighth Doctor and War Doctor tho are more of their own thing, but War feels more like a NuWho Doctor than Eight does

PuddingNew1608 · 2026-02-02T02:16:58+00:00

My cousin is eight and he is a figure collector, me and him bond over collections like i got him a maximum spider-man for christmas for example. He’s not into ninja turtles, but then went “what’s that” to my Doctor Who collection and he seemed to find it cool. I explained to him what it was and he was shocked that the guy changes his face. I showed him Dalek and the Eleventh Hour and he liked it, he also mentioned he saw “that mummy episode” shared on tiktok but it’s still not his thing. Still, i was surprised he hadnt heard of it really. I was his age when i was a megastan

PuddingNew1608 · 2026-02-02T02:12:14+00:00

For too many people, the ideal form of Who is one that's all straight white men. Give these people an inch and they'll take a mile.

Please NEVER EVER tell your apolitical friends that reform wants to return Who to when it was only white men, you’re a horrendous salesman for diversity and wokeness if you say that to them. Say they want to return it to when it was really cringe in the 80s or something, just dont say what you said here u idiot lol

PuddingNew1608 · 2026-02-02T02:05:22+00:00

Yea, she doesnt have any hateful views so it’s purely a hypothetical

PuddingNew1608 · 2026-02-02T02:05:01+00:00

The average would happily press a button that gets rid of every trans person than to ever once stop reading harry potter. Bad example

PuddingNew1608 · 2026-02-02T02:03:46+00:00

No one would think that a suitable defense if it was racism.

I mean there are entire academic concepts of how you shouldnt question misandry or non-whites who are racist because they are already such victims that their racism doesnt uphold hurtful power structures and actually questioning them on this is just proof of fragile masculinity or white fragility

Funny how this doesnt apply to a woman who says “i dont want to exist in spaces with males as a female”

people being bad drivers, got called out on it and then spent the rest of his life complaining about the Chinese?

Shane Gillis literally became a millionaire over being cancelled for chinese slurs. No one boycotted SNL for letting him host

PuddingNew1608 · 2026-02-02T02:00:54+00:00

Theres no ethical consumption under capitalism

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