R Wren

Discomfort is good - you too are flesh (They/She)

[R Wren @ro_wren]

Irony is out. Earnestness? Also out. We're burying our earnest feelings under a failed veneer of irony now. We're trying so hard to be a poseur but our real aching humanity is just spilling out like a pot boiling over. Our hearts are just pouring gouts of blood into our hands.

[R Wren @ro_wren]

@22jenson09 Feels like Unit hasn't been anything more than an obligation since, uh, the early 1980s

[R Wren @ro_wren]

@aelita1917 Tennant and Piper bookends; Goblin King and Space Babies; he really couldn't have undermined Ncuti more effectively if he tried.

[R Wren @ro_wren]

@bornposting Hard claim to justify when Season 7 in two halves is right there.

[R Wren @ro_wren]

@_PigginTeaBreak Don't know about the backdoor pilot idea, but I think jumping forward to a far-future unnumbered incarnation is a very good idea, and something that's more possible now since the regeneration limit has been removed.

[R Wren @ro_wren]

I think the real inconvenient truth for Doctor Who fandom spats is that the viewership decline and loss of casual fan interest really began in Capaldi's era and sustained across all three showrunners from there

[R Wren @ro_wren]

They're gonna start the next season by having the Billie Piper Doctor (played by the new actor in a bad blonde wig) fall off an exercise bike and bonk her head on the TARDIS console

[TARDIS Time @TARDIStime2]

rtd2

[R Wren @ro_wren]

To be clear, this is not one of those "roll back the continuity, de-canonize an incarnation" posts. I just wish that i) we had gone straight from Jodie to Ncuti and ii) his incarnation was longer and better.

[R Wren @ro_wren]

If the show WAS going to end on a regeneration, it clearly should have been this.

Still drives me nuts that such a beautiful regeneration leads straight into the wank that was the 14th Doctor.

[R Wren @ro_wren]

@bornposting Choice of lead Doctor for Wilderness Era 2.0

[R Wren @ro_wren]

In awe of Russel T Davies managing to engineer a Wilderness Era 2.0 without an incumbent Doctor.

[Roger Boylan @BoylanRoger]

James Joyce playing the guitar, Zurich, 1915.

[R Wren @ro_wren]

@bornposting I had a lot of sympathy with RTD for rolling it all on a big gamble (Disney Deal, 3 season plan, etc) but gradually the cheeky chancer vibe looks more like flippancy and carelessness

[R Wren @ro_wren]

Damn Doctor Who really is in Wilderness 2.0. Can't believe how badly RTD's various gambles turned out - lost the Disney money, lost Ncuti, left Carol Ann Ford's return completely unresolved, left the show on a stunt-cast regeneration cliffhanger. This era was really a shambles.

[R Wren @ro_wren]

The Backrooms is kinda *the* contemporary movie. Not because it is the best (though it is very fun!), but because, in this story of recursive and ever-decaying self reference, it somehow encapsulates all the tics and trends of recent horror cinema.

https://t.co/F3JfCoDBSC

[R Wren @ro_wren]

@TimelessDoctors @marcha_greaple no doubt about that

[R Wren @ro_wren]

@bornposting @dcrowleyprod A great loss is the days of 1-a-year franchises churning out medium quality hits. Sucks that the only systems that can sustain that today are 300 million dollar Star Wars and Marvel movies, and even one then the other of those couldn't keep it up.

[R Wren @ro_wren]

@bornposting Hard to resist the impression once you're absorbed into the British media class your worldview is very rapidly bent to smug hypocrisy and protecting the side

[R Wren @ro_wren]

@DeclanHyland It gets weirder than that!

[R Wren @ro_wren]

@jailedamanda Also that before shouting Brutus's line "sic semper tyrannis", he had previously played Brutus opposite that very sake brother in a production of Julius Caeser