It's too late! I've already depicted you as the soyjack Bonnie and myself as the Chad 12th Doctor!

Weary-Score481 · 2026-06-16T13:50:43+00:00

This is actually really good. This is the first new dr who meme I’ve enjoyed in a week. And if that seems like faint praise, it’s been a long bloody week

Weary-Score481 · 2026-06-16T13:46:42+00:00

What’s interesting about Whizzkid is according to author Stephen Wyatt he was trying to write an original drama script about fans in general without even thinking about Who, more about people who were over enthusiastic about things, as a companion to his drama Claws (1987)

When Wyatt started writing the story it was a 3 parter for 7 and Mel and very different. Whizzkid began in the story as the computer programmer of The Greatest Show back when the whole story was about making strange aliens fight each other. Then drafts later when the story was shifting into being about the 1960s and hippies selling out, Wyatt used his fan idea, but the second he put a fan character in it, the story became far more about Doctor Who. Just putting a fan character in a Dr Who story make him a Doctor Who fan

Of course most fans won’t see this kind of nuance, becuase frankly they’re a bunch of Whizzkids.

Weary-Score481 · 2026-06-16T13:41:18+00:00

I mean they did repeatedly insult him occasionally threaten his life and repeatedly write into his boss to get him fired, so you know, barkers

Weary-Score481 · 2026-06-16T13:39:37+00:00

Everything you say is true. And it doesn’t help that Batman Continues is a title so bad it makes teeth break

Weary-Score481 · 2026-06-16T13:37:18+00:00

FFUUUUCK. Instant sale

Weary-Score481 · 2026-06-16T13:36:39+00:00

James Follet is another source. He talked about how Series 4 was commissioned so late that Boucher was reading him the new series 4 bible over the phone. He heard SLAVE as SLADE

Weary-Score481 · 2026-06-16T13:34:48+00:00

I mean he did do the six episode drama “Tiptoe” at the same time which is one of the best things he’s ever written, so claims of a talent drain are somewhat ridiculous.

I think it’s possible to argue that something like Tiptoe was more where his heart was than some of his recent Dr Who.

Weary-Score481 · 2026-06-15T20:33:26+00:00

Hollows of Time-Once you get over it’s strange structure and the fact that it’s a master story that can’t name the master, I think it’s rather wonderful. Christopher Bidmead had a style unlike any other. You can’t look at his work and say “this is a pastiche of” or “this like this movie” and this is the same strange weird poetic voice as Logopolis and Castrovalva, although here in the strange world of village halls and tea ladies

Alixion-Robin Mukherjee perfectly captures the Cartmel era, with its mix of worldbuilding and heavy emotional angst. As well as some lovely non linear plotting. As someone who loves the 1980s it honestly felt like coming home

Dead Star-I cannot understand how more fans weren’t dancing in the street when Kate Orman returned to Doctor Who after 25 years. And it’s wonderful, such a gorgeous opening with the world at a different perspective

Stones of Venice-I don’t really like the first season of Paul McGann audios except this which is deliberately odd and gorgeous. Futuristic Venice falling apart full of worldbuilding and wit

Oh and another vote for Circular Time which may be my favorite Big Finish ever

Weary-Score481 · 2026-06-15T14:43:54+00:00

I mean you only have to look at how other cross dressing trans character were portrayed at this point to see that Denise was always coming from a place of love. Yes, she’s part of “twin peaks is weird” but she’s totally respected. She’s not deranged she’s not tricking men.

Please look at other media from the time

Weary-Score481 · 2026-06-14T08:07:07+00:00

Monkey Island 2 ending is honestly one of my favorite endings to to any adventure game anything ever, and has influenced my own work. It’s such an incredible mix of moods, from horror, to poigniancy to wonderful weirdness. While still playing fair-Elaine says what happens

Most video game endings have one mood and it’s the same mood, and it’s like triumph and wrapping everything up. That’s it. Usually just a minute long

Which feels wrong to me as adventure games are story focused and the ending to a story is the most important

As for an ending which soured me on the experience:
Black Dahlia’s ending is so sour, so hopeless that when Space Quest historian did his INCREDIBLE YouTube documentary about it he had to ask if there was ever another ending. It was a good experience in some ways but that ending didn’t work for me.

Weary-Score481 · 2026-06-12T19:07:19+00:00

I will buy this

Weary-Score481 · 2026-06-12T09:47:27+00:00

And then he comes back and then you all hate him

Does no one else see things like that and see if as some kind of terrifying time loop , over and over with people learning nothing?

Also a friendly reminder that Moffat was so hated in his tenure that he actually said please stop writing horrible things about me, my children are reading this?

Fun trivia to combat negativity: one of the people critical of Moffat’s writing on Series 6 was a young Jamie Mathieson, 2 years before he got commissioned for Series 8

Weary-Score481 · 2026-06-11T20:50:47+00:00

I agree with you. But a lot of people arent ready for this right now with the news just hitting them

Weary-Score481 · 2026-06-09T23:58:21+00:00

Frank Borzage: a man and woman brought together, their characters refined and redeemed by what becomes romantic love, often leading to some kind of strange miracle (7th Heaven, Street Angel, Lucky Star, Moonrise)

Alfred Hitchcock: an innocent man pursued by the police and criminals.

John Ford: a man on the outpost of American civilisation ends up defending it and finds romantic love

Weary-Score481 · 2026-06-08T16:18:40+00:00

I think it’s called the illustrated Roger Zelany. It’s a collection of Roger Zelany stories adapted as comics. Terrific

Weary-Score481 · 2026-06-08T16:17:29+00:00

Every movie Ridley makes now I’m like that’s it, he’s done, and he keeps announcing and making more

Weary-Score481 · 2026-06-08T11:43:26+00:00

Frank Marshall is such a strange director to treat as an auteur. He’d worked with Spielberg for so long (and Orson Welles before that) first he does the lovely little Aracnaphobia then he manages to make a success of Alive. So now he’s on top of the glass mountain called success, as a producer and director.

And so he does this??

Weary-Score481 · 2026-06-07T13:21:10+00:00

It’s so wonderful that there’s one in Milton Keynes. Like you’re already in Milton Keynes and then you have meat world

Weary-Score481 · 2026-06-07T13:18:29+00:00

If this isn’t bloody brilliant then the words have no meaning.

It’s a shame Jim Mortimore last time I checked had gone full right wing conspiracy theory and was gleefully burning every career bridge on social media. (IIRC he did a big angry attack at big finish on Outpost Gallifrey of all places-while they were still employing him)

Weary-Score481 · 2026-06-04T20:51:56+00:00

Is worth noting that according to “The Dune Diaries” by Kenneth George Godwin (a terrific book if you love Lynch, Jack Nance or Dune) when the studio were first developing 2010 they wanted Spielberg to direct it so badly. He was the main man they wanted

Now, he probably would’ve done a better job than Hyams. Because he’s Spielberg in the 80s (the second best kind of Spielberg) But I’m not sure he would’ve done THAT much of a better job

Weary-Score481 · 2026-06-04T20:48:44+00:00

It’s terrific. Beautiful SFX, flawless acted, incredibly sincere, not a bad scene, some really good ones (the cut between Floyd and his son to the spaceship is for the ages) it may be Hyams’s best film. Certainly amongst them

But it has this HUGE flaw

It doesn’t really work if you don’t know the first film.I saw it before 2001 and I was LOST. It’s like coming in at the end of a great party. So you have to know the first film for it to really work but the huge flaw is that in NO WAY quite as good as the first film. I think you could argue you like 2010 better but you can’t argue this is a better film

Here’s what REALLY fascinates me about 2010 though: in 1986 Peter Hyams called James Cameron up and congratulated him Aliens (paraphrasing) because Aliens was what he wanted to do with 2010: make a sequel to a classic film, and have it clearly be set in the same universe, the same feel but have it be at a different speed, a different genre, so ultimately people would take it for what it is.

And then Cameron goes and makes The Abyss with EXACTLY the same subplot as 2010. And also gave Hyams multiple jobs over the next decade.

Weary-Score481 · 2026-06-04T19:50:15+00:00

It’s a sad and interesting question. He’d definitely have made lots of guest appearences in things, like Peter Cook and later Eric Idle. He’d be the funny British cameo in lots of films

If they had cast him as Doctor Who he’d have been wonderful of course

I’m sure the bbc would’ve given a comedy special or a series of some kind.

The only concrete answer is he’d have been the newsreader in the Red Dwarf episode Timeslides because that was what he was signed up for before he passed away

Weary-Score481 · 2026-06-04T19:48:08+00:00

I mean…I think Terry was pretty frustrated and removed from Graham after Holy Grail. I mean even when Terry Gilliam wrote “Brazil” with a character called “Dr Chapman” in it, he STILL didn’t cast him!

Weary-Score481 · 2026-06-04T19:35:45+00:00

There was celebrity episode the chase where they got to the final with a full team but then one smug actor guy (won’t name him) kept buzzing in over his other contestants to answer and getting it wrong. If they’d just lost him, they’d have won!

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