Interesting Links for 09-05-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Ncuti Gatwa: BBC names actor as next Doctor Who star, continuing their anti-ginger bias

(tags:drwho )

2. Russell T Davies almost cast a different Doctor Who lead

(tags:drwho )

3. Automatic for the People: Driverless Trains and the London Underground

(tags:automation tube trains london uk )

Comments

[jack]

I hope the runner up actor doesn't feel bad when they read that article

[danieldwilliam]

I've enjoyed Sex Education on the whole. I don't recall being particularly taken with Gatwa's performance. Certainly not as taken with his peformance as I was with Whitaker's before she was cast and that turned out to be not great.

I expect Davies will be better than Chibnall. That's not a high bar.

I am largely unmoved by the current Doctor Who developments.

[andrewducker]

I am hoping that Whittaker's was mostly down to terrible scripts, although she wasn't great even in the passable ones I saw.

I'm not hugely excited about the new announcement, but will be watching for the first time in almost 5 years when RTD takes over.

[danieldwilliam]

I tend to the view that the scripts were a problem and the direction was a problem rather than Whittaker and that's a shame.

[andrewducker]

I'm very happy to blame Chibnall for everything.

[danieldwilliam]

He's certainly to blame, even if it isn't his fault.

[mtbc]

I still haven't forgiven him for The Power of Three.

[mtbc]

I sure did catch Whittaker doing some actual acting at times despite the dreadful material she was given to work with.

[danieldwilliam]

Yeah, in the bits she was allowed to do her job properly she was pretty good. I think she'd have been better than pretty good if she'd had a good platform which allowed her to get in to the character more. Shame. A real missed opportunity.

Gatwa's Performance

[lsanderson]

I thought he picked up a lot during the scenes at the African wedding.

Re: Gatwa's Performance

[danieldwilliam]

Yes, you are right. He was good in those and those were some interesting bits of drama.

[channelpenguin]

3. That'll please the owners. Finally rid of the most bolshie union workers, who could cause very high-profile disruption. I can't be 100% pleased at the changes in balance of power these automations are bringing. (Whilst fully acknowledging that union leaders can be just as power hungry egomaniacs as people in any other position of that level)

[andrewducker]

The whole point of the article is that it's not happening any time soon and won't actually save much money when it does.

[channelpenguin]

Lol. Caught out! I usually do read through the articles first, but in this case I skimmed the first page then got distracted. :-)

3 Automated trains

[anna_wing]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uq9wvPIzCc

See a five-minute loop of the glorious climactic scene in "Shin Godzilla" in which the train union workers send driverless Shinkansens loaded with high explosives at Godzilla, as the opening move in the final attack.

I adore this film, it is second only to "The Martian" in my heart. It may be summed up as "Godzilla vs the Japanese bureaucratic-industrial complex, bureaucrats and workers win on points."

Re: 3 Automated trains

[andrewducker]

I've heard very good things about it! I will definitely get around to it.