I totally agree that Gatwa deserves better.
I think reports of the show's "badness" are a tad overblown, and we got exactly what we should have expected when they announced RTD's return, but that's both in the eye of the beholder and hardly a robust defense.
Blaming Gatwa for “never fully embracing the role?”
I think that's an injection of editorialization by the publication, not something that can be attributed to Brittin.
Though the claim does have its origins with an "inside source", which may or may not be accurate.
Frain played Sarek on Discovery - he was played by the late Ben Cross (who was also very good) in the Kelvin films.
Yeah, it seems he may have thought he was free to speak, and been very mistaken.
But here's a screengrab!
The split-screen screen with doctor and wolf listening through the doorway was really nice.
I'd suggest it's somehow foreshadowing the end of the series, but...visuals aside, I guess it doesn't really make sense?
This one's a step up from "New Earth", but still not one that I think of too fondly (or at all, really).
Warrior monks! Neat! Unfortunately, their sweet martial arts are ruined in the edit, so I guess that's that.
I'm honestly not sure what to say...it's pretty paint-by-numbers, for the most part. RTD dips his toes into the supernatural-folklore-but-actually-they're-aliens well, which...I think I preferred the approach in his most recent run, just letting magic be magic.
The CGI werewolf actually looks pretty great - good design, well-animated, and kept in the darkness to paper over any jankiness. My only complaint is that it seems pretty weightless at times, which is a common issue.
The cast is good. The story is contrived-but-serviceable.
As for the theme of the episode, with the Doctor and Rose not taking the situation as seriously as they should...it almost feels like this episode should come toward the end of the series, after they've had more adventures together (of course, it's entirely possible that they have had more adventures together, but we didn't see them). You could swap this with "Fear Her" and it would seem better-placed within the series.
Mind you, that would have meant that I had to watch "Fear Her" this week, and I don't know why I would do that to myself.
Well, it's a settlement - the judiciary has nothing to do with it.
He's definitely got an irritating populist streak.
I'm not sure I agree about health care being worse since he took over, but then I haven't seen the metrics. I do think they're trying to make headway, but it's a tall task.
World's most badass waterslide
I would have agreed with you completely up until last week, when he gave the project to a Crown corporation.
Simply removing federal resistance and letting Smith try and fail to find a company willing to build the thing seemed smart.
This new approach...I'm not so sure.
I haven't finished reading this, but it's excellent.
And boy, does Keir Starmer ever come off as...extremely Starmerish.
I'm a little nervous based on how things turned out for Valour, but the management will hopefully be better this time around.