So that season of Doctor Who deserved another handful of episodes. What we got was mostly great! And Fifteen is absolutely owning the role. But some of the character stuff suffered from being rushed, and that one untwist at the end was a real cop-out.
Bonus feature from the DVD collection of The Pyramids of Mars: an “interview with Sutekh” about his experience working on Doctor Who, and his career since. Whenever they release a box set of Gatwa’s first season, they should film an update.
(Pet peeve: the Doctor made a throwaway comment in one of the episodes about the Egyptian iconography being “cultural appropriation.” Out-of-universe, sure, it was probably-white British writers who incorporated an Egyptian deity into DW in the first place. But in-universe, he’s not appropriated, he’s just…a guy who exists and looks like that.)
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Been back in the groove working on comics, which means needing a lot of TV to binge in the background, which means I’m all caught up on Grey’s Anatomy. Gosh, those doctors sure do keep having messy romances. And it continues to be fun whenever you recognize a plot point from some 6-month-old viral news article, that the writers were obviously reading at the same time you were.
Followed that up by watching the last season of The Resident. Last one forever, it’s been canceled, and apparently the reviewers were always pretty meh? To me, it’s never felt that different from Grey’s. Less focus on messy romance, more on messy healthcare-industry corruption, that’s all.
The Good Doctor is finished too, but I’m not picking that one up again. Dropped it after the episode where, not even kidding, the main character shows up at the house of a female friend with a baseball bat…smashes up her car windows…yells about how he “wanted to hurt you the way that you hurt me”…and she decides that’s hot, and they start making out?? From what I hear, the show only doubled down on “that was totally a romantic and non-horrifying way to start a relationship.” Glad I got out when I did.
And now I’m periodically churning through the backlog of ER, the trope-setter that all the others built on. It’s impressive how much of the medical-drama formula is already solidly established, even in the early seasons. On the other hand…whoo boy, there are some moments of serious 1990s culture shock. (A doctor with ADHD is bullied into going off her Ritalin because “that’s for hyperactive little boys”! A nurse finds out her pregnant patient is smoking weed to relax, and tips off the cops to get her arrested! The Grey’s staff would never.)
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A new Superman movie has been filming outside my workplace this past week! The officially-released set photos are better quality than anything I could snap (especially since they started making all staff enter/exit through a service entrance), but it’s still pretty fun to see it live.
Speaking of Cleveland! There was some news a couple months ago about the library having a Quran bound in what was, purportedly, human skin. Well, the tests came back, and there are finally some articles about the results: it’s sheepskin. It was always just sheep.
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