so me and Sam FINALLY watched the last season of Capaldi's Who
and tell me how, after literally over a decade and for perhaps the first time in his fucking career, Steven Moffat wrote a not just tolerable but really actually good two-parter and fully stuck the landing. like the editing and pacing were still a bit off but the storyline was original, fun, interesting and emotionally invested, and most importantly, rather than ending on a damp fart or the most furious autofellatio in history, the final part didn't fumble it and ended in a way that felt emotionally satisfying and like it made sense for the characters. like the last time he successfully wrapped up a multiparter in a way that didn't feel cheap and hollowly disappointing to me was literally The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, and a) that was in 2005 and b) tbh The Doctor Dances is about a tenth as compelling and memorable as The Empty Child.
so after 12 years of either hackery or great ideas that fall apart in the second act, Steven Moffat writes what I would genuinely consider to be a memorable Good Doctor Who serial. it ends with bittersweet pathos, a solid closer for all the main characters, and sends Moffat's showrunning career out on a genuine high despite failing ratings and budget cuts (and the fact Doctor Who hasn't been consistently good since about 2009). good job Steve. with grudging respect I admit you pulled it out of the bag on this one.
wait what's this there's one more episode left? and it stars Mark Gatiss? and you literally spend the whole episode inexplicably just shitting all over the legacy of Doctor Who by inventing a version of the First Doctor that bears literally no resemblance to the character that William Hartnell actually played, just so you can spend the whole episode saying misogynistic things to run yourself off to how much more Totally Feminist your version was than the version you made up in your head of what Doctor Who was like in the 60s? and it added literally nothing to the season except to take all the wind out of the sails of the actually good finale you already wrote?
even when he writes a good episode this fucker still finds ways to disappoint me.
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So I'm still slowly learning/catching up on AEW as I'm bad enough at keeping up with WWE, the fandom I've been a part of for years.
And...I just found out that Jade Cargill's team and fandom are called The Baddies.
I immediately started laughing.
If you don't know this sketch, watch it now. It's hilarious.
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some wholesome/funny (and british) 141 headcanons
Soap and Gaz love music made for baddies. They have a shared playlist with Doja, Megan, City Girls.
Price took the team for drinks and they sang 212 by Azealia Banks and killed that shit too
Price wanted to be a bartender when he was younger so he taught himself how to make a bunch of different cocktails
He makes them for Simon when he’s having a bad day <3 Simon loves an old fashioned
One time you walked in on Alejandro and Rudy teaching Soap and Gaz how to do traditional Mexican dances because they thought it would help them get laid
They paid you not to tell Price and Ghost…
…You still told them
Simon once snuck a cat onto base when he found it wandering around, clearly a stray…
Price let him keep it
He named it Bourbon because he’s a nerd… Gaz calls the cat Bon-Bon to annoy Simon.
Soap is the king of Tesco Meal Deals…
Him and Gaz know how to finesse the system…
Had to give Ghost a crash course when they saw him buy a ham sandwich, ready salted crisps and water :(
“Ay, L.T. What’re ya doin’, ya weapon? Get the naked smoothie!”
Gaz uses roadman slang so much that it’s rubbed off on the rest of the team…
Lost his mind when Simon called Soap a nitty when he lost his vape…
I’m a Bar Manager so I’m gonna give them each an annoying customer trait <3
Price: When he card machine doesn’t work, he says “must be free then”
Gaz: Orders 4 shaken shots and waits until they’re all made before asking for another
Simon: Walks up to the bar and just says, “Beer.”
Soap: If his pint has too much head, he’ll say “Where’s the flake?”
I’m getting mad just writing these 😭
Ghost carries dog treats with him whenever he knows he has a mission with the K-9 unit
That meme of the 4 lads in jeans? 141 in their casual clothes
Gaz has every points card known to man
Boots Advantage Card, Tesco Clubcard, Nectar Loyalty Card…
Price made a group chat for them all to stay in contact when they’re on leave…
He sends in selfies of him with a pint and a thumbs up 🥺
I love him
Soap just uses the chat to send tiktoks
Gaz sends cursed memes
Simon sends voice notes at 3AM of dad jokes that he just came up with
Soap is a Greggs addict. Yumyums for life babes 🫶
Price takes the boys to football games when they’re on leave 🥺
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I watched @quinton-reviews 's new video and I wanted to do my set homework and come up with my own dream Nicktoons Unite team, except I never had any of the american channels growing up and I'm not familiar with a lot of these shows.
But nevermind, I came up with a compromise. Here's my concept for if they did a Nicktoon Unite style game but with CBBC and CBeebies characters:
1) Danger Mouse: reboot DM in particular is the obvious pick to replace Jimmy Neutron in this lineup. He's already dealt with cross-universe travel and portals in canon, and he has Professor Squawkencluck, who already just invents whatever device the plot requires. He's both practised enough at saving the world to be believable in these situations, while still being incompetent enough to need help from the others. Plus it'd be fun to see how his massive ego would react to these other guys.
2) Victor from The Secret Show: the most niche pick here, but come on. He's literally a secret agent. I'm not going to leave him out. (I dithered over whether to include Victor or Anita since I could only pick one. I chose Victor not because I'm sexist but because I just really want to hear Danger Mouse deliver the "Victor! Are you still alive?" line.)
3) Postman Pat: Now I know this looks like an insane choice. I know that making a postman fight baddies in life or death situations is ludicrous. But listen. Postman Pat: The Movie did it first. Blame them, not me.
4) Dennis The Menace: People who've never read The Beano might think that an un-superpowered 10 year old boy would be way out of his depth on a team with three adult men, two of whom literally fight evil for their job. But people who have read The Beano know that in canon Dennis has already thwarted alien invasions, travelled through time many times and dealth with the ramifications of changing the past AND avoided being beheaded, fought killer robots and man eating plants and sea monsters, toppled multiple dictatorships, got the British prime minister arrested, and fought climate change by going directly to the source and tearing down the factories. Whatever these games could possibly throw at him would be just another tuesday for Dennis.
5) Tiny Clanger: she's kind of the Spongebob of the group, both in the sense that high stakes situations and saving the world are really not what she usually does, but she would if she had to, and in the sense that she'd be the heart of the group. DM, Victor, and Dennis are all kind of self-centred assholes at heart who only save the world because no-one else will, and Pat is a middle aged British man (and therefore emotionally repressed), while Tiny Clanger is unfailingly loving, and kind, and friendly, and empathetic. Also her best friend in the world is a large metal bird, and I think Tiny suddenly riding around on the Iron Chicken would be a really cool power up for her.
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