Tango

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The Doctor tells Grace that in ten years Gareth will head the seismology unit at UCLA, and devise a system for accurately predicting earthquakes, which will "save the human race several times". The movie takes place in 1999, so Gareth will devise this system circa 2009. "The Enemy of the World", a Second Doctor TV story, in which Ramón Salamander comes close to global dictatorship through the use of an earthquake machine, takes place in 2018. Now, in all likelihood, the events of TEOTW are no longer canon, since I feel like that would have come up during the Thirteenth Doctor's tenure if Salamander was that significant a public figure. But I could be wrong.

So the question becomes: was the Eighth Doctor preventing those events or causing them? TBH it's kind of weird that he knew about Gareth's poetry exam at all.

[–] Tango@piefed.ca 5 points 22 hours ago

Plus streaming services have a habit of cancelling series suddenly. Taking Lucasfilm (not even the entirety of Disney) for an example, Willow and The Acolyte were great shows that just got axed with no resolution. How am I supposed to feel invested in new shows if I have no reason to think they'll get conclusions? It sapped my enthusiasm for the universe so much I didn't even bother with Skeleton Crew or Maul. Thankfully Andor got an ending.

[–] Tango@piefed.ca 4 points 22 hours ago

Jacking up the price repeatedly in the first few years (since every service except Netflix is still relatively new) isn't a great way to build consumer trust. I think most platforms were banking on popular IPs (Star Wars and Marvel for Disney; DC, ASOIAF and Harry Potter for WB; LOTR and The Boys for Amazon; Star Trek and D&D for Paramount; etc) to trigger some kinda compulsive "gotta watch 'em all" response from fans of those IPs, but if you ask me, it seems more like fans are starting to burn out on those franchises. I'm a huge Star Wars fanboy and there's a Darth Maul series out and I can't even muster the interest to watch it.

[–] Tango@piefed.ca 11 points 1 day ago

If he's capable of resurrection after being dead for 46 years, I'm certainly going to listen to Jean-Paul Sartre.

[–] Tango@piefed.ca 1 points 5 days ago

300kg is slightly less than four average-weight grown men.

[–] Tango@piefed.ca 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Do the buses not have GPS trackers so that an app on your phone can tell you exactly how long the wait for the next one is?