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!

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Oh, darn. Want to talk Who but don't want to give spoilers...
Every modern Doctor gets their scary moment.
Think this was 15's.
(Not sure what 11's was. Maybe turning mankind into a lynch mob against the Silents?)

Not having looked at internet speculation, didn't see that reveal coming.
Not sure why they put in in the middle of the credits when just having it be the end of the episode would've been the same, but... hey-o.
("No old villains in the series". Now there's a technicality for you...)

The true horror of the episode is that even with Earth annihilated, there's no escaping Eurovision.
Or Bucks Fizz.
(actually, do quite like that song. But it was making the rounds of TOTP years after it won...)


Disney+ managed to start working proper(ish) last week, so back on the Andor.
(But it's still refusing to play the Ironheart trailer. Hmm.)

... think I might've said it before, but when it gets to the point, it's fine. It's just often it takes for-bleeding-ever to get there.
(The dramatically shortened run is a bit of a double-edged sword here. Some of the stuff brought up or skipped over are things that maybe could've been dwelt on a bit more?)

All those poor Space French! All those poor spiders.
oh, and Syril.

Mon Mothma gets to show a bit of spine! Oh, wait, nope, next time she shows up she's back to being ineffectual. Ah, well. Nice while it lasted.

Gosh, all that stuff with Saw really came to nothing.

As predicted, K-2 only shows up in the last hurdle. But he does cover a lot of ground in that time.
(Also, trying hard to not think about the Shaggy Dog nature of the story. Pretty much nobody gets what they want and thanks to Rogue One their actions are either pointless or get them killed.
But it's all worth it to restore the Republic! ... which is so bungling, corrupt and inefficient thanks to Mothma's own actions it'll get blown up in the sequels.
Damn sequels.)


Managed to find a copy of the first series of Lower Decks comics. (Harder than it sounds. Can't even find it on Amazon for love nor money.)
Think the best part is either that one guy who's... way more interested in Dr. T'Ana than he should be, or Mariner yelling at Boimler over Dracula-related problems.
"He's going to bite everyone! Or seduce them! Then bite them anyway!"

This week in Ultimate X-Men, we were introduced to the NUU version of Rogue, adding an interesting complication for Rogy shippers.
"Ah can't touch you, Remy, 'cuz yer on another continent! ... an' if that Kate touches you, ah'mma rip her lungs out, intangibility or no!"


Scarlet With & The Vision starting this week. I'm intrigued, but at the same time... Orlando's Marvel stuff has left me kind of 'eh'.
So, the question is... how much do I ship it?

Finished pretty much everything in AC: Shadows.
Now to just find that one last stinkin' teapot...

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I mean, there was that time in 11's second-and-a-half series where he was about to shoot someone with a revolver and Amy stopped him. And then later just let Solomon the Dinosaur-napper explode in a doomed ship or something.

Not to mention murdering himself, Rory and Amy twice in a row on the hunch that it was all a dream, that anti-Silence lynch mob thing...

But hey, NuWho has been pretty universally dark. I still occasionally arrest people's thought process by pointing out that until we got to Moffat, every Xmas Special involved the Doctor being materially involved in a massacre.

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Or that time in his second episode he was planning to lobotomise an innocent space whale that had been subjected to several centuries of torture.

(Was drawing a blank on 11's tenure because it's been a while since I've watched any of it.)

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Yeahhh, I have recently seen a nicely incisive essay on tumblr about that episode. It comes so close to making a point about colonialism in the vein of "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas", only to conclude "actually we'll just keep things this way because the space whale doesn't really mind! Case closed!".

Rather reminds me of Edmund Burke scorning the French revolutionaries for not being grateful that their country was successful enough to support a thriving monarchy...

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My issue with this episode was that, though his methods were utterly appalling and had to be stopped, Kid still had a valid underlying point, and the episode ended with the nameless Corporation not being punished in any way, unless one genuinely thinks that a protest song on their Eurovision-analog (which they sponsor and can likely edit as required) is going to make lasting societal impact, which.. I mean, I try to be optimistic, but...

This ending felt closer to Kerblam! than anything, and that's not a great episode to compare an ending to.