BleedingCool’s Assessment Of RTD (also fish sex)

Source: https://bleedingcool.com/tv/doctor-who-russell-t-davies-is-now-the-best-the-worst-showrunner/

An interesting perspective on the second run of Russell T Davies, with comparisons to John Nathan-Turner, the last Doctor Who showrunner of the classic era before the show was put on ice for good. To be quite frank, I’m not sure if that’s a fair comparison. Sure, Nathan-Turner might not have been the most popular producer, but there’s stuff from his era that I thought was pretty good and at the very least, his solution to getting away from the sonic screwdriver (i.e. just get rid of the bloody thing) was a way to make the Doctor more clever and resort to other means to solve problems.

Far be it for me to use this as another excuse to rag on ol’ RTD for his recent shit run, but I made a banner called Doctor Boo and so I might as well make the most of it.

For what it’s worth, though, I got around to seeing some of that War Between Land And Sea before I decided that I got bored and just read the synopsis for the rest of the series. Of course, the whole thing degrades into a love story between a man and a fish girl. That’s all this whole thing was about anyway, wasn’t it? Anything that supposedly touches on an interesting premise eventually devolves into bestiality… er, sorry, I mean interspecies erotica, fucko!

Man, remember when this guy was a genius responsible for reviving Doctor Who and turning it into a sci-fi juggernaut? Those were the days… can we build a TARDIS and bring THAT guy over so he can fix up the mess his future self mucked up? Would be nice.

Belated Good News: The Nuking Of Fake Trailer Culture

Source: https://filmstories.co.uk/news/youtube-has-deleted-two-major-channels-which-specialised-in-fake-film-trailers/

I hadn’t had the chance to comment on this piece of business, but I wanted to get it out there. I am pleased to hear that Screen Culture – the Youtube channel that often houses fake movie trailers with its fake thumbnails and other bullshit fakery – has been nuked by Youtube, along with a couple others that have specialized in fake trailers and trying to pass that shit off as real.

Very rarely will you have me championing the nuking of a Youtube channel for content that I disagree with, but there’s a HUGE difference between making your own fan trailers and making your own fan trailers while trying to pass them off as legitimate. And for years, I’ve had to put up with search results that constantly brought up these con artists and their obviously doctored thumbnails when trying to look for recent movie trailers. All I can say is thank fuck this is being remedied.

I’d imagine the ongoing trend of using AI tools to create fake trailers is what spurred this action on Youtube’s part and, yes, there’s going to be the other side of the coin where channels producing genuine, worthwhile content might be false shitcanned… because that sure as shit hasn’t happened in the past. But hey, at the very least, the system did what it was intended to do and that was clean up a mess that needed to be cleaned ages ago. And for this one, brief moment, I will applaud their efforts.

Now if only someone can nuke Screen Rant while we’re at it… or replace all the opinion writers on that site with actual journalists who will post actual news and not fluff pieces that don’t matter. That’d be a real step up, thanks.

Some “Homework” For Starfleet Academy

So TrekMovie has been putting up some material to hype up the upcoming Starfleet Academy series that’s due to premiere in a couple weeks. This includes an article bringing people up to speed on the background of the new reality that the series is set in, as well as one of the actors giving a tour of the sets on his Instagram.

None of this is really hyping me up for the show, but for those who are keen to learn more, you can follow the links here.

‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Orientation: The State Of The Galaxy And The Rebuilding Of The Federation – Link

Watch: ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Campus Set Tour + Clip Of Captain Ake’s Welcome To The USS Athena – Link

State Of The Blog – January 2026

Happy New Year… I heard it sucks… oh wait, I hear that every year.

For those who are TLDR people, reviews resume on Monday, January 19th with Review #1271 (game unknown) and Nitro musings will continue their Thursday run. And other minor fixes as well.

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WCW Monday Nitro (Jan. 1st, 1996) – Where The Big Boys Have A Happy New Year

Happy New Year, everyone!

Needless to say that I’ve recovered from my musings over that Bash At The Beach show that I’m suddenly in a good mood thanks to the new year… or maybe this was written ahead of time and I’m just dropping this opening bit as a clever means of transition from the morbid mood that last show left me in.

Thankfully, we’re starting the New Year with a quick recap of today’s edition of 30 Year Old WCW Monday Nitro… which we’ll get out of the way now so that the more important post of the day – the annual Winners And Losers list for 2025 – can be posted about a half hour later and get most of the attention.

In the meantime, we have WCW Nitro from the Omni in Atlanta, where Ric Flair is set to defend the WCW World title against the Orange Goblin himself, Hulk Hogan. Will this match work for the Huckster, brother? Let’s find out.

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Review #1270 – Game & Watch Collection (NDS)

Welp… we didn’t end things as intended, but on the other hand, aren’t you glad that we’re closing out 2025 on a slightly less miserable note than if we had done Ecclesia?

Anyway, here’s what a potential DS review would look like; old-school, rough looking camcorder shots with low audio quality. If you would like more of that, then I openly question your sanity… but we’ll see how it goes regardless.

Review #1269 – Where’s Waldo? (NES)

Wait just a minute, King. This isn’t Portrait Of Ruin. What the hell is this?

Well, I wish that I could say that it’s a swerve and you all fell for it, but no, technical issues prompted me to put the kibosh on the Dominus leftovers and replace them with some dirty and quick. Hence, Part 1 of this endeavor, which covers every wannabe angry reviewer’s low-hanging fruit once they saw ericmansuper’s original video from 19 years ago… I could have held this off for another year and marked as a 20th anniversary celebration, but no, VEGAS has to take a fart during the editing process. Thanks, Shanoa.

Anyway, this one’s a late night special. Another one’s coming later today.

On The Last Day Of 2025… Another Declaration Of Not Having Watched Section 31

It is the 31st of December of the year 2025 – otherwise known as New Year’s Eve – and I find myself astounded that I STILL have NOT watched the Star Trek: Section 31 streaming video motion picture film starring Academy Award Winner Michelle Yeoh.

Despite a two-month Paramount+ subscription period… I never found myself watching the film. Instead, I watched the completed run of Strange New Worlds instead… the third season that is a considerable step above the second’s swinging and shit. I haven’t gotten a disc copy for either my birthday OR as a Christmas gift. The threat of Section 31 no doubt looms in the distance, but we’re still… able to keep this thing going.

In any event, tomorrow is the Winners And Losers Of 2025 and I’ll give you a bit of a spoiler: Section 31 is the top Loser of the year… this despite the fact that I haven’t seen the bloody thing yet.

But when has that stopped me before?

Anyway, enjoy your New Year’s eve, everyone.

WCW Bash At The Beach 2000

Listen, I know I’m pinching things here by pushing both videos to a New Year’s Eve clusterfuck. And I realize that this isn’t a fair trade off… but trust me, I want these vids to actually be worthwhile. So it gets the extra time to cook. In the meantime… you get this piece of business, which surprised me more than anyone.

Right, so sometime last year, while I was doing my weekly Wednesday PPV musings, I did musings for WCW Mayhem 2000 and I had declared it the final WCW 2000 that I would ever watch. A little over a couple months later, I was kindly informed that in all the time I’ve been bitching over having to put up with every horrible WCW 2000 PPV and the utterly miserable time I’ve had watching these goddamned shows, I have never done a musings on the one show from that year that genuinely mattered in the long term of things.

At first, I dismissed the notion. Surely, that’s a mistake. Surely I must have d0ne a musings on that show and it’s possible that it never published. Sometimes, that sort of happens around here where I would have something ready to go and it wouldn’t launch on schedule… or god forbid, a post would launch before it was even ready to do so. So I did a quick check on things and sure enough… I had the one hole left in that WCW 2000 checklist.

And sure enough, it was the show.

Bash At The Beach 2000.

Cue the Cornette face because I ain’t doing a banner for this shitshow.

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