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I understand the frustration, but at this point, getting it done in 2025 likely isn't realistic - certainly not getting it done by the end of cycling season.
It's a big one - I was feeling ambitious.
"I basically pitched the Doctor too quick but I did it in my very first episode and I've regretted it ever since!"
I...don't disagree. Even by Doctor Who standards, Thirteen's dialogue tended to fly by pretty quickly.
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Doctor Who's Jodie Whittaker reveals regret about how she played Thirteenth Doctor
(www.radiotimes.com)
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July 12: Canvas 2025
(startrek.website)
Canvas 2025 will be upon us on July 12, and we've got something ready to go for our community's contribution:
I'll update this post with the template URL once I've got everything set up.
Edit: Template URL
I'm not 100% certain, but the new season might show up on Crave, as well.
Which is also something you have to pay for, of course, but at least there are options?
Metric math.
I'm not completely against the ads - sure, they're crass, but we live in a society, y'know?
But at least make them seamless.
I think half the fanbase takes the Bombers for granted because they've been CFL mainstays, half wrote them off because they're getting old, and the third half just wants to talk about Toronto.
WPG @ CGY
Bold of the Bombers to start their bye a week early. Basically a disaster from top to bottom, though their one TD was pretty cool.
Calgary really brought it, they're one to keep an eye on in the West.
The on-field graphics were glitchy and distracting.
I think this is an extremely lousy headline, but the content is good.
Firstly, the headline slightly misquotes what Matalas actually said (emphasis added):
“We wrote nine episodes at one point and the network was like, ‘No, we don’t really understand this, it’s a bit too sci-fi, it’s a bit too in-Star Trek.’”
I think a story being a little too "inside baseball" and reliant on stuff from decades ago is a perfectly valid note, especially when we're talking about ideas like this:
The idea was that Guinan’s bar was presented as a normal bar in Los Angeles, but if you knew the right thing to do, you could go into the back through the telephone phone booth and that was Rick’s Café and it was a stopping point for all these different species that were actually there on Earth with a ‘Do not interfere’ thing happening.
The stuff about COVID messing with the writing and shooting schedule is understandable, and created problems that can be seen in many TV shows filmed around that time. All the same, it makes me wish they had decompressed the schedule and not rushed through things as much as they did.
The comments about there being a lot of different ideas in season two are interesting, since I think she overall series' biggest flaw is that it crammed a lot of ideas, many of which I like quite a bit, into only 30 episodes, with few (none?) of them being fully explored.
And regarding the Jurati Borg...I don't know, I never found that confusing in the slightest. I think their intent came through just fine.
Faint praise, but this one's a lot better than the first part of the story. The "farting" aspect of the farting aliens is significantly downplayed in favour of things that are actually interesting.
The emotional core of the story is the Doctor and Rose each coming to terms with how dangerous life with the Doctor is, and the effects it can have. I'd forgotten that Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North comments on how flippant Rose is about death, even at this early stage (too early?) of the series.
There are plot contrivances all over the place - the UK's nuclear codes are controlled by the UN! You can hack the Royal Navy's submarines and launch missiles from your home PC! But I'm pretty forgiving of stuff like that, as long as the emotional core of the episode is solid.