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Honestly the worst thing RTD did for RTD2 was come up with bi-generation. Just nonsense.

This is prompted by me seeing a video of all the regenerations, and it just makes sense. It’s such a good storytelling concept, it’s clean, it’s simple. There’s many angles you can explore with it, a happy regeneration, a sad one, reluctant, etc. Hell, the 10th’s doctor’s reluctant regeneration could contrast with a happy and communal regeneration for the 14th. Which is what it felt like the 14th Doctor was going for with the bigeneration, but the splitting of the Doctors allows the world to have the 14th still around, and it feels so forced, like they simply cannot say goodbye to David Tennant. Like as an audience member, you know they could go back to the 14th Doctor, just because, even if they say that’s not the intention, they can, it lingers in the background of the series and it’s just nonsense.

And then they double-downed with the bigeneration of The Rani, which added literally nothing to the Rani as a character, or made any sense thematically. Any notion of bigeneration being an excuse for therapy for a timelord is absent in this case. Instead, we have two Rani just because it’s ‘fun’, despite the fact that either actress on their own is plenty fun. Like, I don’t get it. Stick with Mrs Flood, the one we’ve been teased with throughout the series, or go all in with the New ‘main villain’ version a la the Master in series 3. I don’t get what was accomplished with The Rani splitting. I can see what they were going for with the 14th Doctor, even if I disagree. I don’t see it with The Rani.

Regeneration was a concept that didn’t need to be improved upon at all, I just hate this lol.

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My biggest critique of Lilo and Stitch is that it takes place over like… four days.

Day 1: Lilo punches Myrtle, first appearance of Bubbles, Stitch crash lands

Day 2: Stitch is adopted, they ride around the island, Nani loses her job.

Day 3: Model citizen montage, Stitch bonds with the family, surfing, Bubbles announces he will take away Lilo

Day 4: Jumba and Pleakly attack the house, Bubbles intervenes and take, Gantu kidnaps Lilo, aliens fight, Grand Councilwoman comes to take Stitch, conflict is resolved

Genuinely I just wish there was an implied longer passage of time for the bonding sequences. It clearly takes place over a few days, and I feel that Disney films often won’t allow the passage of time. Everything has to happen in a few days, it can’t just… be. It would also mean Jumba and Pleakly, fetting yelled at on day 3 for failing to capture Stitch would make more sense? Why are you sending two aliens to capture Stitch as a covert mission then annoyed that it takes them more than a day.

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28 days later is a very good, stripped back film. Has a genuinely terrible performance from a child actress as Hannah, the daughter. She's so wooden. Cillian Murphy, Naomi Harris, Brendan Gleeson and Christopher Ecclestone, all very good actors. And then this actress sounds like she's doing a fake english accent even though she's actually english. Why was she cast.

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surprisingly the Titan Submersible documentary is actually good for a Netflix doc, which is surprising as they're often shit (MH370 doc I'm looking at you, Elisa Lam or whatever). Mostly because we get interviews with those involved, or formerly involved with the company. Shoutout to the whistleblower, and the accountant who Stockton Rush tried to make a pilot with no experience.

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okay i'm watching House and this child asks Chase to kiss her. She's nine, she's dying of cancer. AND HE AGREES.

I WANT TO EXPLODE OF CRINGE, EMBARASSMENT AND HORROR

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hey, what, absolutely WILD news

the linked article is a piece from the LA Times:

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When Zootopia came out, I was really into it. I watched it like eight times in the first year. I was way, way too into it. Embarrassingly so. I cringe thinking back. But it was a solid movie. Cringe centrist politics, and the metaphor doesn’t quite work, but it also a fun kids movie about how even the hero can have an unconscious bias. Idk it’s fun.

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Big fan of tinned fish reviews on TikTok

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god cursed me into seeing this image so im making it everyone elses problem

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I have some news for members of the united states armed forces who feel like they are pawns in a political game and their assignments being unnecessary.

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watching house... realising that an infraction in the leg would have been good for my au fic regarding percy walking with a cane

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a shout out to the small baby child today who was demanding liberation from her stroller but who, when asked if she would stay close to mama and not run around acting crazy, paused for a moment to contemplate the question and then answered "prob'ly no"

it cost you your freedom, small child, but i admire your integrity and honesty 😔

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actually the show is called "House" because they break into every patient's house

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“Chat it’s NOT lupus”

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Most annoying accents in the world:

- Hugh Laurie in House

- American Newsreader

I’m not American but like the accent Hugh Laurie does for House is uh, interesting. I dunno if he felt that to do an American accent well he had to do this intense vocal fry, and the effect is genuinely that this is one of the most annoying accents I’ve ever listened to. Like it’s idiosyncratic and therefore actually feels less like ‘actor does generic accent’ and more like a specific character voice so it’s good. But also very annoying.

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I’m not American but like the accent Hugh Laurie does for House is uh, interesting. I dunno if he felt that to do an American accent well he had to do this intense vocal fry, and the effect is genuinely that this is one of the most annoying accents I’ve ever listened to. Like it’s idiosyncratic and therefore actually feels less like ‘actor does generic accent’ and more like a specific character voice so it’s good. But also very annoying.