God’s sake. I mean… At least he’s apologising? I could imagine some of our recent lot doubling down on this and refusing to give in to wokeness blah blah blah…

But yeah. I’m really trying hard to be charitable cos it’s Christmas and everything. That’s not really pleasant stuff to hear from the guy who is in charge of the Police (over 1,100 under investigation for sexual assault or domestic violence atm)

I work in healthcare. Never sounds this much fun, sorry, disgraceful.

See I got the impression when watching it was kind of like she was told to ‘just play it like you’re a female 10th doctor, yeah, that’ll do’. Which was really a shame because she could have owned her own character you know?

I actually thought her best episode was the one with the Daleks and the time loop in the warehouse (Eve of the Daleks I think). Her run got overshadowed by the whole timeless child thing which was more fanwank than anyone needed or asked for. Not that Moffat or Davies had individual episodes which were just as bad for continuity stuff but it felt like a lot of the 13th Doctor stories were arc obsessed. Maybe Flux didn’t help.

Yeah I actually did some research and I stand corrected!

I don’t know how far they would have been able to pull the joke of ‘satire of lazy sitcoms by using incredibly poor taste’ for a full 8 eps but I wouldn’t hold your breath for an official release.

They backed out of giving Hardwicke House a full release in DVD (the episode with Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson) at the last minute and that was entirely non controversial.

Don’t quote me on this but I think only a pilot was made

I think it’s very weird he decided he had to put a fake nose on to play a Jewish person… I mean that to me is getting into racial stereotype territory. It’s obviously not malicious and the article says the family were happy with it so that’s something but still… ‘Jewish Person = Big Nose’ doesn’t sound great.

What does interest me is that a lot of people are very much ‘trans people should play trans characters, disabled people should play disabled characters’ and it goes without saying that obviously blackface and Yellowface are out. But when there’s a case like this there’s less cohesion and it tends to end up being more defensive about people being oversensitive about the whole thing.

To be honest, I went to the cinema for the first time after covid last year and thought ‘actually… I have not missed this’. Not because there was any bad behaviour in the audience, but I guess I just found that I didn’t really care about seeing films in cinemas particularly. Maybe I was on an off day, but I think I’ve genuinely gone off going to the cinema.

It probably doesn’t help that the only cinemas near me are multiplex types though. And this article doesn’t exactly encourage me to book seats anytime soon!

I think someone unearthed a clip of him on a podcast talking about sex with kids which at the time was probably seen as edgy humour but… Yeah. Something to do with wishing he could go back to the past because then it ok to sleep with teens? Can’t remember. Don’t care enough to Google it. But it’s beyond doubt the man should probably be on a watch list

I’d read this article which came out when he was originally kicked off the show:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/justin-roiland-animation-empire-implosion-rick-and-morty-1235319366/

It doesn’t sound like he’ll be missed

Huh, maybe it’s all Christians then… I don’t know I started to get the feeling like I wanted to explore more about faith (I’m a permanently wavering agnostic) and started reading the New Testament. And very early on in Matthew Jesus says something along the lines of don’t pray in front of all the others in the temple to show off how holy you are but do it in private. And that line of thinking inevitably leads to questioning the need for a church

Of course it was St Paul and not Jesus who formalised things a bit more.

Yeah it’s a real extreme-Catholic/Orthodox thing to focus on the blood and pain I think. Catholic art, especially those little wax icons tends to show more of the blood running from the wounds on the cross. Mel Gibson is one of those extremists, hence his barely concealed antisemitism.

I’ve been reading about the history of early Christianity, before there was an official New Testament and what people believed was a bit more chaotic with a lot more of what we would call takes on Christianity flying about - that’s why I love things like Dogma and Good Omens. To my mind they aren’t being disrespectful, they’re just interpreting what Christianity is and where it comes from, and why it’s important.

That’s why George Carlin’s priest is such an idiot - he’s not interested in belief, he’s interested in golf and his own ego, and becomes a sinner with his whole buddy Christ idol anyway (which is one of the funniest things Smith ever created!)

I’d definitely have to add Life Of Brian to the trinity of comedies that handle religious themes respectfully but well. So many underrated lines - “he is the real Messiah, and I should know, I’ve followed a few!”

Fair.

But I was just giving my perspective as an outsider who stumbled across this post because messing about with the terminal had the opposite affect on me as someone who appreciates the concept of Linux but doesn’t really have the level of passion to learn programming for it.

Anything using the terminal… I once tried to do something on Linux because a friend told me it was great. I gave it another go when it came up on my Chromebook and tried to teach myself. I just don’t get it.

I’m not a programmer at all, so anything that involves typing commands is going to baffle me!

I was wondering which actor would be able to convincingly take on the roles of British pilot, German scientist and American president on stage each of which have very different comedic styles? A demanding part!

Iannucci is great at casting highly talented people who are relatively unknown but right for the part though

Absolutely - he’s been a major influence on British comedy since producing the radio series On The Hour in the early 90s and is a great performer himself.

Trump ran Miss Teen USA and Miss Universe pageants and bragged about walking around the dressing rooms and seeing the contestants completely nude because he was the owner and there was nothing they could do to stop him.

The guy just can’t get any worse the more I hear about him. Jesus.

He’s the most unlikely hero for any movement, anywhere, ever. But we are where we are. Have you seen those Ben Garrison cartoons where Trump is drawn to have the physique of superman? It’s all madness

Trump ran Miss Teen USA and Miss Universe pageants and bragged about walking around the dressing rooms and seeing the contestants completely nude because he was the owner and there was nothing they could do to stop him.

The guy just can’t get any worse the more I hear about him. Jesus.

He’s the most unlikely hero for any movement, anywhere, ever. But we are where we are. Have you seen those Ben Garrison cartoons where Trump is drawn to have the physique of superman? It’s all madness

I’m reading a book about QAnon at the moment and this sounds like their sort of bs

I’ve not actually watched any movies in a cinema since the pandemic now you mention it… But I was planning on seeing Oppenheimer until this news broke