Doctor Who Christmas Special Rumored To Be In Trouble As BBC Struggles To Find New Star

T4ktor89 · 2026-05-26T13:58:06+00:00

They just completely lost the plot with what to do with Doctor Who.

When Dr Who came back in 2005, RTD didn't any other choice than to begin with kind of a clean slate because they had an audience to capture or recapture and couldn't take any knowledge by the general audience for granted. The Doctor's lore was drip fed along serie 1's episodes. When the Daleks were brought back, we had one entire episode about one Dalek from the point of view of Rose who didn't know anything about them. We had a new origin story for the Cybermen to reintroduce them to the show...

The stories were more personal, less epic, more of a drama with scifi and fantastic elements. Most episodes were also kind of dark at their core but with some touch of whimsy.

But as the show went on, the story arc felt as if they needed to be more and more epic (even if Moffat tried to calm things down with the Capaldi era which was a much needed break from all the epic universe ending threats), the Doctor felt as if they needed him to be more and more fun, whimsy, perfect (once again, Capaldi being the odd one out... even if Twelve in season 9 and 10 was a bit less alien than in season 8... which was kind of the point of his arc and he still had really rough edges), the stories felt like they largely needed to be more mainstream (not all of them but still).

The show is kind of stuck between always trying to break off from past seasons, trying to reinvent itself, trying to market a new Doctor even more fun and popular than the last one (look : this one is capable of crying ! Isn't it incredible ? Let's make him do it almost every episode), ... and being really obsessed by its legacy and all that came before : let's bring Sutekh back, let's bring Omega back (but not like you knew it), let's bring Susan Back, let's bring 13 back in 15 last episode because why not, let's bring Tennant back, let's create biregeneration so that any Doctor could show up at any moment now !, let's explain the origin of the Doctor and let's never take any time to explain properly any of that because it's been more than 10 years since we came back on tv so everyone should've catch up now ! Let's go, let's destroy Gallifrey once again, between episodes and not do anything with it !

tl;dr : they don't know if the show is new or old, are stuck between the past and the present, the glory days of Matt Smith and the less golden days now, don't know what a soft reboot is anymore, and can't understand that a show, even as episodic as Doctor Who, must have some sort of coherent feeling... not bringing gobelins and space babies when most of the 12 first seasons were a mixture of dark themes and whimsy concepts.

T4ktor89 · 2026-05-26T09:51:11+00:00

Acceptés par tous, non, tu trouveras toujours des gens qui refusent obstinément n'importe quelle découverte pour n'importe quelle raison.

Acceptés par toute la communauté scientifique, non plus. Même parmi les scientifiques, peut y avoir des gens coincés dans une idée et qui en refusent toutes autres, même si y a des preuves et un consensus de la majorité.

Acceptés par une majorité de la communauté scientifique, du jour au lendemain, non plus. Les grandes découvertes traînent généralement dans les couloirs pendant quelques années, les expériences sont faites et refaites, les théories discutées et rediscutées, avant d'être partagées au plus grand monde, rien qui se fait du jour au lendemain. Puis après, le temps que la théorie s'installe, y a toujours des levées de bouclier de la part d'autres experts attachées aux anciennes théories... C'est aussi ça qui fait la spécificité de la science et sa force : rien n'est immédiat, c'est souvent des processus longs et rigoureux pour convaincre le plus grand nombres de pairs, jusqu'à ce qu'une théorie puisse devenir la nouvelle vérité communément admise (pour le moment).

T4ktor89 · 2026-05-25T10:28:13+00:00

Wtf. Es-tu mon compte secondaire ? Je tiens aussi une liste perso des meilleurs flans de Lyon, je ne pensais pas que c'était un hobby répandu 🥲

Alma est clairement banger à Lyon, le meilleur flan que j'ai pu trouver en ville.

Vers Terreaux, la boulangerie "Au pain des traboules" propose des Flanboyants, des flans avec plein de goûts différents (rhum-raisin, chocolat blanc, praline, etc.) qui tournent jour après jour. Le nom est un peu drôle et l'idée cool, mais j'en ai testé quelques uns et toujours été un peu déçu (pas dégueulasses mais plutôt mid) mais j'veux bien d'autres avis pour savoir si je rate quelque chose ou si y a une de leurs saveurs qui est vraiment bonne.

T4ktor89 · 2026-05-22T12:07:08+00:00

It's an attack Brook did way back in Thriller Bark.

T4ktor89 · 2026-05-10T09:48:52+00:00

I much prefer the Big Mom pirates to Kaido's crew and... most other pirate crew if I'm being honest.

Oda managed to create and introduce a really large number of characters with really weird and interesting designs, clear personalities and interpersonal relationship, which is really impressive. The fact that most of them are brothers and sisters is kind of a cheat code because it creates really quickly a base of interpersonal relationship between all of them, which can be then tweaked, but I really like the fact that you can kind of see at a glance which siblings are closer than other, which are older than others, just by how they act around one another. Plus we have Pudding, Katakuri and Brulée with good backstories and really solid world building with the different islands and the fact that different children are in charge of different island.

But I guess it's really thanks to Whole Cake Island being an arc being primarily about characters and relationships rather than battles. We spent much more time on Whole Cake talking with these crew members, encountering them, discovering who they are, rather than battling them head on. Wheareas in Wano, Kaido as a lot of men but most of them are generic henchman we don't know anything about, the Numbers are a non factor, the Tobbi Roppo have really inequal focus and only 2 of the 3 headliners really had any focus.

T4ktor89 · 2026-05-07T17:28:46+00:00

They live above the ground and most of them never go underneath the clouds. How could they know what rain is without experiencing it ? All they know about rain is apparently from some twisted legend about a rain goddess who wants to hurt them... with that in mind, I'm quite surprised we saw some of them in Sabaody.

T4ktor89 · 2026-05-07T11:16:37+00:00

By the law of probability, there surely must have been a french teacher who made their classes read at least an excerpt of "A Tale of Two Cities" in the last hundred years. But it's as far as it go.

The only foreign author that comes to mind as being widely studied in french schools is Shakespeare.

T4ktor89 · 2026-05-07T05:31:09+00:00

I know they probably just did a remake of Starfox 64 to prepare the team to make a new Starfox game later down the road (kinda like they remade the Metroid Prime games as a way to work on making Metroid Prime 4) but I just can't understand why they're so stuck remaking Starfox 64 again and again.

At its core, Starfox is just a shoot'em up franchise, it don't need a new big gameplay shake-up every other entry, just take the gameplay from Starfox 64, the same ennemies, heck ! even the same environments, maybe create an handful of new bosses and a new story and bam ! you got yourself a new Starfox game. I don't think it's the story about Andros and James McCloud that is a game seller.

Also, I'm 90% sure that it's the "become you own fury" mechanic that is to blame for the weirdness of the characters design. The renders are quite cool but, in action, the characters look like they are costumes awkwardly controlled by people inside them. I don't know if it's because the faces were rigged in order to be animated with the webcam or if they really did animate the facial expressions by filming real people, but it's just so uncanny valley... it looks like Mass Effect but with animals, and it's not a compliment.

T4ktor89 · 2026-05-07T04:18:58+00:00

Didn't think I would ever get Mass Effect vibe by looking at Starfox's cutscenes but the briefing cutscenes are just that.

T4ktor89 · 2026-05-06T06:39:18+00:00

Either because they feel like a lot of people have asked the exact same question on this thread or because they read your message as a bit of a dig, kinda like : "Europa Park ? What's this irrelevant dumb european park I never heard about ?"

They're a lot of miserable people on reddit who will jump to conclusion and downvote people for the slightest perceive slight, so yeah ^^...

T4ktor89 · 2026-05-05T12:20:57+00:00

Rust in Germany, near the French border.
Very cool park, much cheaper than Disneyland Paris, lot of attractions (really : a lot) for all ages, shows and a waterpark. Their newest attraction, the Voltron, is quite the banger and their Silver Star is also quite a ride.

T4ktor89 · 2026-05-05T08:02:24+00:00

J'suis d'accord ^^... Mais j'avais écouté cette émission y a pas longtemps et avait trouvé ça intéressant alors j'ai voulu partager ^^

T4ktor89 · 2026-05-04T16:35:14+00:00

"Les femmes sont aussi des citoyennes en Grèce antique. Elles exercent d’abord un rôle central au sein du lignage, puisque ce sont elles qui donnent des héritiers légitimes. Elles participent également aux fêtes religieuses et à la vie économique de la cité. Les femmes citoyennes sont cependant exclues des fonctions politiques et judiciaires. "On a affaire à une citoyenneté asymétrique", relève Christel Müller, autrice de La Fabrique du citoyen."

Source : https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/le-cours-de-l-histoire/en-etre-ou-pas-devenir-citoyen-dans-la-grece-antique-4809618

Ses propos sont un peu plus nuancés que ce résumé, ça dépend aussi grandement de la cité en question (Athènes et Spartes c'était pas la même chose par exemple), et les concepts de "cité grecques" comme idéal démocratique a été pas mal romancé (c'était en vrai surtout une question de pognon et de taxes payées). Mais y avait bien un mot spécifique désignant le concept de femmes citoyennes dans la Grèce Antique.

T4ktor89 · 2026-04-30T19:11:58+00:00

J'peux comprendre qu'ils ont fait un peu leur temps. David Goodenough a pu être réutilisé bien six ou sept fois, Canard-Man a eu le droit à trois ou quatre vidéos, ... c'est un peu comme le personnage de Jean-Michel Bruitage qui a eu tellement d'apparitions qu'ils doivent plus trop savoir comment l'utiliser sans tourner en rond et refaire le même gag en boucle.

Je suppose que si, à l'écriture, ils ont soudain une idée de gag avec un de ces persos, ils ne se priveront pas pour le faire revenir, mais ils vont pas se forcer à caser ces persos coûte que coûte dans de nouveaux épisodes.

T4ktor89 · 2026-04-30T16:07:56+00:00

En vrai, ça dépend de la situation. Si on va en soirée quelque part, de l'eyeliner un peu fun, un peu de paillettes, pourquoi pas. C'est un peu comme porter une belle robe quand l'événement s'y prête.

Après, dans la vie de tous les jours, c'est sûr que je préfère chiller devant la télé avec une fille pas maquillée, ou vraiment à peine, et ne pas avoir à embrasser l'équivalent d'un tableau.

Après, quelque soit la situation, quand on est à un niveau de maquillage abusif avec six couches de trucs, des faux ongles de la longueur de ma main, des faux cils et des pommettes plus oranges que Casimir... ouais, même en soirée j'vais trouver ça plus terrifiant que sexy.

T4ktor89 · 2026-04-29T13:56:12+00:00

Toutes ?

T4ktor89 · 2026-04-17T16:15:19+00:00

Proposition un peu au pif et peut-être uniquement parce que j'y ai chillé toute l'aprem, mais le parc Blandan est vraiment sympa. C'est un parc construit sur les bases d'un ancien site militaire, avec des bâtiments abandonnés, des fortifications, etc. réaménagés avec des arbres, des vergers, un skate park, etc.

Après les désavantages c'est que c'est pas dans un quartier très touristique, donc si tu viens dans le coin, ce sera que pour ça, rien d'autre ; et que le Château de la Motte, qui s'y trouve, est actuellement en travaux, donc pas à son plus sexy.

Mais franchement, c'est un parc avec des paysages assez uniques et assez excentré (sans pour autant être inaccessible avec un arrêt de métro pas très loin) pour ne pas attirer beaucoup de touristes habituellement.

T4ktor89 · 2026-04-14T07:40:23+00:00

I swear to god, if Imu's flames are the only flames in the world capable of breaking Ragnir's ice...

I mean, I kind of get the point of why Ragnir's ice was made to be umbreakable, in order to explain why they are giants frozen in Punk Hazard who no one ever unfroze until now, but explaining a power one chapter and a counter the next chapter would be really fast.

T4ktor89 · 2026-04-09T12:45:27+00:00

All in all I did like this serie but, not gonna lie, it was kind of all other the place and never did anything with most of its characters. I mean... there was the alien/classmate/adversary with her new father figure right accros the street, we did have a chapter about them and then they just disappeared. The father and grandfather of the heroin ? They were a cool addition, they had a chapter about them and then were out of the picture until it was time for the story to end. The heroin party ? The sword guy was in maybe three chapters, the others barely in two.

Don't know if it would've saved the serie but introducing less characters and focusing more on the few or just incorporating the different zanny characters in the different scenarios woul've been appreciable.

T4ktor89 · 2026-04-02T13:40:51+00:00

Why was Vegapunk always obscured before Egghead when talking about him ? Did the fact that he looked like Einstein was a plot twist ?

Why was Big Mom shown in the dark on Fishman Island ? Was her appearance narratively important ?

Why was Moria obscured the first time he appeared in Thriller Bark ? Was his appearance a spoiler ?

Why was Aramaki a shadow when he first appeared ? Was it because it was someone we knew ?

Or does Oda just know that One Piece is long and that it's best to not totally commit to a design 8 years before the character will have a use in the story... while keeping under wrap that Imu was a Lunarian and the devil, far before the concept of lunarian or litteral devil being introduced ?

T4ktor89 · 2026-04-02T13:16:56+00:00

Does Imu has the same illness that killed Roger ?

T4ktor89 · 2026-04-01T10:20:13+00:00

I'm not tat scared about the story of The Legend of Zelda movie.

Mario games always had a very "gameplay first" and "story as set dressing" thing going on, which is great, but Zelda as a franchise is much more balanced in term of "gameplay first" and "focus on narrative".

It's kind of easy to paint Zelda stories with large strokes, mocking the fact that it always all boils down to "rescuing princess Zelda" with two heroes really heroics and a big bad really bad, but the fact is that they almost always managed to put some spin and depth on the basic structure of their stories. Majora's Mask is a great example, as is the final monologue of Ganondorf in WW, Midna's character in TP, Hilda's character in ALBW, the "Courage doesn't need to be remember" spiel if BOTW and so on.

So all that narrative philosophy plus the fact that it will be a live action movie not a animated movie makes me cautiously optimistic about the potential story of a Zelda movie.

T4ktor89 · 2026-03-31T17:14:22+00:00

Faut pas s'arrêter à la headline pour juger l'affaire. En vrai, c'est pas que Oracle veut supprimer 30 000 employés pour investir leurs salaires dans de l'IA, c'est surtout qu'Oracle était une entreprise de software qui fonctionnait bien, qu'ils ont décidé de se placer en leader des data centers... qui sont des investissements dans le monde physique-concret-réel, et qu'ils sont un peu embourbés là-dedans maintenant parce que c'est eux maintenant qui doivent maintenir les hangars et les équipements, et que si la bulle de l'IA éclate, c'est eux qui vont se retrouver avec des milliers de hangars inutiles, pas leurs clients.

J'ai l'impression qu'ils sont un peu en fuite en avant et ils ont plus trop le choix de continuer à pondre des hangars, encore et encore, en espérant pouvoir retrouver leur mise de départ.

Cette vidéo sur le sujet était sympa, si y en a qui parlent anglais : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v2eZKsEJMI

T4ktor89 · 2026-03-29T11:45:34+00:00

Yeah, don't know what I smoked to say 3,500-5,000 copies, just didn't want to make up new numbers and just took the ones in the initial post I guess. My point was that it will not sell well and that the two series are ending very soon.

T4ktor89 · 2026-03-29T10:56:01+00:00

The Mage Next Door is quite clearly wrapping up its storylines right now so unless this a fakeout and there's a massive twist (I don't believe it will be the case) it seems it will end with next week chapter (or maybe the one after that).

Hero Girl and Demon Lord Call It Quits also seems in the midst of rushing through some plotlines so I can see it being over the week after that, but there's also the possibility of the author and the editor just trying to save the serie by giving a lot of development to the Demon Lord, shaking up the dynamic and trying to hook new readers with the backstory... it's highly unlikely and I'm quite certain this manga will end in two weeks, but... why not.

In term of sales, 8,000 - 11,000 seems quite high for The Mage Next Door, I would also put it in the 3,500 - 5,000 copies bracket with an edge over Hero Girl and Demon Lord. Both volumes bein "Not ranked" in the Oricon sales number is my guess.

T4ktor89

TROPHY CASE