Robovski wrote: ↑Mon Dec 07, 2020 3:10 am
Yeah, the episode where moon is an egg is a terrible story? Hold my beer, here comes The Timeless Children.
I only watched the first ep of the current Doctor due to not liking having too many companions and I was glad to recently hear they're pairing them down again back to a more sensible number. Not helped by some serious Who-fatigue of having such a good actor to play the Doctor so badly wasted with so many just plain bad scripts and sodding Clara.
So I admit to have not watched the episode in question, and yet I still can't believe there's an episode worse that the moon-egg one. Nope, can't be done. Even Love and Monsters or Fear Her were so much better than that.
I think the mark of a truly bad episode is one that torpedoes 50 years of canon in just under an hour. Compared to that, the Doctor dooming a woman to be a face on a slab is Shakespeare
Retcons can always be retconned again by the next writer, or even the same writer. Happens all the time in ongoing fiction.
Sherlock Holmes died once. Klingons in Trek radically changed their appearance along the way. In Dallas a whole season was just a dream. Spiderman did, then didn't, then did sell his soul to the devil.
Heck, Doctor Who especially. We didn't used to have a War Doctor and 10 didn't always count twice, but lo we ended up at the "final" regen two actors earlier than expected and in about five minutes that tied off and squandered a plot point that had been building up for decades. The Doctor used to have destroyed Gallifrey, now he never did and that undid the narrative of basically all of NuWho. Regenerations didn't exist until they did, and they weren't even really explained or named until the end of John Pertwee 10 years in.
Very little sticks long term with Who, except for the stuff that does. If that makes any sense.
TGLS wrote: ↑Tue Nov 24, 2020 12:33 am
Bryan Cranston was in The X-Files: Drive and was in Contagion.
Ha! I got it!
"Dec-25: The Bare Midriff Contagion Christmas Special"
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I like how everyone seems to have given up having a guess lol. Chuck has either been very creative with his clues or he has picked one highly obscure film. Kind of looking forward to finding out tbh.
clearspira wrote: ↑Fri Dec 18, 2020 10:27 pm
I like how everyone seems to have given up having a guess lol. Chuck has either been very creative with his clues or he has picked one highly obscure film. Kind of looking forward to finding out tbh.
Unless he does a major swerve its Contagion. Not much point in guessing anymore since it got narrowed down weeks ago.
clearspira wrote: ↑Fri Dec 18, 2020 10:27 pm
I like how everyone seems to have given up having a guess lol. Chuck has either been very creative with his clues or he has picked one highly obscure film. Kind of looking forward to finding out tbh.
Yeah, this is why it's important to beta test riddles and stuff. The Oracle of Bacon was helpful.
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