Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday

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In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.

Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

In the search for non contentious news (because there's a lot of the alternative flying around) I did find this amazing story about a bucket. but not just ANY old bucket!

Sesame Street will be continuing on Netflix after PBS had it's funding cut

Despite being the nominally "silly" episode about a pastiche of the Eurovision Song Contest, Doctor Who had not one, but TWO major plot reveals, one of which was confirming a long-standing rumour about Mrs Flood, and the other was (for this spoiler-free viewer) breath-taking to see, and a pointed (and honestly rather disturbing) reminder that even this "Post-therapy" incarnation of the Doctor does not cope well with loss. A reminder of ROT13 for spoilers on this one please!

Comments

[deh_tommy]

Okay, so The Robot Revolution was a space romp with literal machines, Lux was a trip to the past where the Doctor square off against the Pantheon of Discord, The Well was a bottle episode set in the future where the military is stuck in this one quarry and his companion gets shot, Lucky Day was a Doctor-lite focusing on Ruby and everything going wrong for her at the pub, The Story And The Engine was about an ethnic community under siege by a rebellious servant who threatened to destroy the planet, and now The Interstellar Song Contest is about aliens living out Earth TV programmes and the Doctor loses his cool because he thinks his companion is dead. Naq tbvat bss gur ovt cbfg-perqvgf gjvfg, gur svanyr jvyy or nobhg fbzr zragvba bs Fhfna (cbffvoyl n snxr bhg, fvapr fur abgnoyl fnlf gur fnzr guvat Ze. Clr’f jvsr gbyq uvz) naq n ergheavat pynffvp frevrf ovt onq oevatvat nobhg gur raq bs gur jbeyq.

I’m not crazy, am I? This can’t all just be coincidence, can it? I know they were filmed back to back so that could explain the overlap between this and the last series and maybe I’m stretching with these, but they’ve also emphasised repeatedly how coincidence and chance feed chaotic beings like the goblins or the fairies or the Pantheon.