Doctor Who

you haven't seen Misfits? definitely still worth a binge (first couple of seasons anyway). He's in series 2 & 3.

I'm a big fan of the new (old) serial format they've gone for. Whittaker's doctor has grown on me too, snapping at everyone like a pissed off lecturer.

It's a shame John Bishop can't act because he's a good bloke. If they'd written Bradley Walsh back in (on his own) I'd be much happier.

Agreed on the current theme, its excellent

I’m a bit lost on where any of this is heading though. It generally seems like very chaotic storytelling.

“The Division” sounds like UNIT In Space. I’d kind of like for them to just be introduced and have a goal. There’s those two Skull People who Look Bad, and are probably trying to do something Bad. The Angels are Doing Something and there’s Things Happening.

But if anyone asked me what has happened this season or what any of it is about, I honestly couldn’t explain a single thing. In fairness, I’m suffering a lot of confusion in general lately, but I’ve not found anything else I’ve watched lately hard to follow. Lovecraft Country, Twilight Zone, The Suicide Squad, Eternals and No Time To Die are most recent viewed shows and - though I’d criticise some of it - none of it left me wondering what was happening for even a second.

Kill people

I didn’t know Dan had become an MP

Female Doctor Who robs boys of role models, claims Tory MP www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59421259

Didn’t this start when they replaced Iron Man with the Iron Lady, who decimated industries that led to men feeling worthless?

The headline idea is clearly dumb, though I do have some sympathy with his saying that people are taking his point out of its wider context. Unfortunately, that's what happens these days, and it can make it difficult to have any deeper discussion when any slight mistake or badly thought out comment will be weaponized against you.

Role models are clearly very important for girls, so I assume they would be for boys too.

But the issue isn't that some of the roles are being changed to girls or people of color. The issue would be if the roles are generally more violent or negative. Kids these days seem to be exposed to a lot more adult shows a lot earlier... though paradoxically, kids content has become much less edgy. There are also just a lot more anti-heroes these days. 

Still, I seem to remember that 5/6 of the Avengers are white dudes (though one occasionally goes green), so I'm not sure that boys are that short on role models.
And old star wars was Luke+Leia+Han, and new star wars was Rey+Finn+Poe so the balance hasn't changed that much, other than one of the main trio becoming a Teletubby. 

I always aspired to be James Bond.

My kids apparently aspire to be characters out of Squid Game.

I just had walls covered in photos cut out from Match and Shoot

Tory MPs don't, that's for sure.

So what did everyone think of the finale?

I'm of two minds. There was a lot I liked in this series as a whole - the best of Chibnall's run I'd say - but the relentless plot-plot-plot of it all, and the endless exposition, began to drag the more it went on. So I dunno, overall it's okay?

I thought it was alright. A bit convoluted and plot heavy for the youngsters (possibly).

I enjoyed the series as a whole and it's a shame they didn't get this stuff locked down earlier as her run as the doctor would have been entirely different from the woke, preachy, box ticking bollocks that we had up to this point.

How the fuck is this Doctor "woke"? She sets the Nazis onto the Master by reminding them he's Asian, allows the Trump-esque dude to go free, allows the evil Space-Amazon company to stay in business, and in this very episode not only allows the genocide of the Daleks and the Cybermen but actively tricks the Sontarans into being wiped out as well. 

Whatever other criticisms can be made of this era of the Doctor, "wokeness" isn't one of them, unless you literally define that by the gender and ethnicity of the main cast, which is just bonkers.