Spoilers Lucky Day grade and discussion thread

[The Wormhole]

It’s a conversation I thought? Didn’t know we had to write to a limit…

We have just as legitimate a right to complain about a posts length as you do to write said long post.

 

[JD]

Sadly, we do seem to be back in the era of "Some Anvils Need To Be Dropped".

Star Trek's ep "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" (to segue from your post) has been ranked as one of the best TOS episodes and even quite highly as a Trek episode overall, despite having all the subtlety of hitting the audience with a brick with a slice of lemon tied to it.

Sadly the kind of people who need these kind of message tend to be so stupid that it takes an anvil to even begin to make the slightest bit of impact on them.

By the same token, things like WhoCulture and the Official Doctor Who podcast very much toe the party line (or tow, if you like) and Who basically has its own ‘propaganda wing’ over there. Who are much as Conrad was depicted in the first half of this episode.

Of course the official podcast is going to "toe the party line" they're working for the people making the show, and most of those are pretty much just promotion for the show. It would be a pretty bad idea to start ripping on the show that you're promoting for your bosses who make the show.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

We have just as legitimate a right to complain about a posts length as you do to write said long post.

I like a good lengthy post as the next person (just see some of my reviews...) but it's a real drag to read such posts when it's the same complaint after complaint after complaint. Nothing new to say, nothing insightful to point out. Just the same damn essay ad nauseum.

 

[Starkers]

I like a good lengthy post as the next person (just see some of my reviews...) but it's a real drag to read such posts when it's the same complaint after complaint after complaint. Nothing new to say, nothing insightful to point out. Just the same damn essay ad nauseum.

Yup. I honestly don't know where people find the time to hate watch stuff, I don't have time to watch all the things I actually like

I don't like using the ignore function, but man sometimes it's necessary for your mental wellbeing!

 

[Chakoteya]

Sadly, we do seem to be back in the era of "Some Anvils Need To Be Dropped".

Star Trek's ep "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" (to segue from your post) has been ranked as one of the best TOS episodes and even quite highly as a Trek episode overall, despite having all the subtlety of hitting the audience with a brick with a slice of lemon tied to it.

Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, anyone?

 

[jaime]

Sadly the kind of people who need these kind of message tend to be so stupid that it takes an anvil to even begin to make the slightest bit of impact on them.

Of course the official podcast is going to "toe the party line" they're working for the people making the show, and most of those are pretty much just promotion for the show. It would be a pretty bad idea to start ripping on the show that you're promoting for your bosses who make the show.

That isn’t my point with that hit. My point is that they are doing a show where essentially a Doctor Who Fan Podcast is the enemy. It’s like whizzkid turned up to eleven, and not subtle. And their won show is sort of accidentally friendly fire in that.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I like a good lengthy post as the next person (just see some of my reviews...) but it's a real drag to read such posts when it's the same complaint after complaint after complaint. Nothing new to say, nothing insightful to point out. Just the same damn essay ad nauseum.

Agreed. But something I would like to say to some of these people who write these very long posts-- punctuation and paragraph breaks are your friend. If I just see a big block of text, I keep scrolling.

 

[jaime]

We have just as legitimate a right to complain about a posts length as you do to write said long post.

Yup.
On the plus side, I write different things, and always try to be fair to the production/episode.

I’m the kind of fan, who even when they find fault in an episode, really wants to go in and enjoy it and find nothing (or very little) wrong. Or that it overcomes any flaws.

The idea that being fan requires a love of everything put out in the name of the show is ridiculous.

As to haters?
I’m not even in Young Chibnall’s league.