Dave Ringo

The thing is, a whole generation didn’t hate the Star Wars prequels. I was 18 when Phantom Menace came out, saw it opening night with a few friends from student res, and then rewatched it at least three or four times in the theatre over the next month or so. Pretty much everyone saw this movie (and EpII & III). Guys and girls. Nerds and casuals. Many went multiple times (the box office numbers prove this). The merch sold through the roof, every magazine featured cover stories with the cast, most casual fans thought Jar Jar was funny while the Star Wars nerds were obsessed with the tech behind the character. Girls loved Padme’s fashion while straight guys loved Portman. The online fandom was hyperactive with fan theories, fan art, etc with a very clear even split between the male/female demos. Fan and general public reaction was insanely positive. This particular scene became ICONIC. 98% of the negativity came from the professional film critics. TPM wasn’t perfect by any means but the media definitely tried to push the message that it was a disaster, Jake Lloyd sucked, and that Jar Jar was offensive and racist. This weird gaslighting that it was the fans who were negative and toxic is just current media trying to do damage control for just how negative they were at the time.

I've been watching some YouTube videos where historical figures had their paintings re-rendered by Ai as contemporary photos, and the connection it creates with the subject is quite profund. So I tried it on some Victorian photos such as the shot below of Sir John Herschel from 1867. The potential it offers family historians is considerable, and so I thought, as a fun little Christmas present to you, I would offer the service freely to my followers during this week. So if you want to post a shot of an ancestor I will, in turn, reply with a re-rendered version for you, re-imagining them as if taken by modern photography. But just single shots (not groups or couples) and they need to be of clear enough resolution that we can clearly see their faces and not have to guess at their features.

@altonbrown Tell us what you thought of the latest season of Doctor Who.

As this platform continues to degrade into a raging dumpster fire of villainy and vitriol, I ask you: what would you like to see from a lowly cook like me? What would you enjoy, utterly void of politics, grievances, and griping? Whatever it is, I'll try my best to do it.

@theDWshow They made a deal with the slugs. You can eat all the people you want if you subscribe.

So while ‘everyone’ fixates on one part of DOT AND BUBBLE, has anyone got to the bottom of why the dots didn’t just kill everyone simultaneously, given they were perfectly capable of it, and it would have been quicker and easier than herding people towards some space slugs?

Trying to keep you safe outside the city courthouse.

tvchoicemagazine.co.uk/tv/doctor-who/… In which I blab my only remaining secret. Oh well. I'm glad it went to an old friend.

@GallifreyGals @Kat_Alysha @PaulaDeming @gallifreyone Moving on up in the Whoniverse! Congrats!

We're here at #gallifreyone ! Be sure to come say hi, and we've got some ribbons for you! Also, come by to Program A at 430 pm. to catch our interview with Billie Piper 🖤 🖤

@JustinWhang It's entertaining watching people getting triggered over Wil Wheaton getting triggered. They don't see the irony.

Replies full of people who name search and defend Wil Wheaton. Incredible stuff.

@ramblingDW Mark of the Rani

When people ask me which Colin Baker story to watch (if just watching one) I’ve always said Vengeance on on Varos, but should I change that to Terror of the Vervoids? Or something else? #DoctorWho

@Sargon_of_Akkad Interesting how a comment made at a conference, unrelated to Star Wars, turns into: "Director says the movies' objective is to make men uncomfortable." This is not what she said about Star Wars. It's about who she is. Feminists are incapable of making a good movie. Just say it.

She seems nice. twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer…

Incredible.

@Hbomberguy The snowball you rolled down the hill is getting bigger and out of control. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Wow NBC covered the video (and the quickly-deleted apology) nbcnews.com/tech/youtube-c…

@lore_of_dad @iluminatibot youtu.be/vn_PSJsl0LQ?si…

@iluminatibot I rated community notes this time. Full flight logs have not been released to the public. Hence, Tom Hanks may actually be on those flight logs. Hiding them in classified files doesn't make it NOT exist.

Tom Hanks: "I don't respect anyone who doesn't wear a mask." Me: "I don't respect anyone who is on Epstein's flight log."

@thebiggis @IanLevine Yeah, but "mavity" is perfectly acceptable. Ha. Is "white European" an ethnicity now? I guess being half white European is not good enough. Gotta be pure blood.

@Dave_Ringo @IanLevine Obviously, because Isaac Newton was white European. It's historically inaccurate.

Well I initially liked last week until the woke stuff began to grate on me. Then the Indian Isaac Newton was the straw that broke the camel's back. He's only doing it to make the older fans irate, like a misbehaving mischievous child.

@GoldingBF If you're half white, apparently your blood is not pure enough to portray one of us.

The BBC has turned Sir Isaac Newton into a black man. Historical revisionism at its most sinister. #AbolishTheBBC

People complaining Nathaniel Curtis shouldn't play Isaac Newton because he is only half white.🤡

@Aidan_Drysdale @TrilbeeReviews It's a historical fact that Nathaniel Curtis is half white. Are you now suggesting that, in casting, the ethnic heritage has to be 100% exact?

@TrilbeeReviews Firstly, “hotness” is subjective. Secondly, it’s a historical FACT that he is white. To take a real historical figure and changed their skin colour for the sake of diversity is ridiculous. If that’s the case pick a famous diverse person from the past.

Isaac Newton wasn't Asian, you're right. But Charles Dickens didn't blow up ghosts. Agatha Christie didn't fight off a Giant Wasp. Mary Seacole didn't treat Sontarans. Van Gogh didn't stab an invisible chicken. It's #DoctorWho. Get a grip. And they say *we're* the snowflakes...

@Aidan_Drysdale @TrilbeeReviews The people who complain about this are often the same ones who are contentedly silent when white people are cast as Asians. "Historical accuracy" my foot.

@TrilbeeReviews It is though. Race swapping real people is actually stupid, it’s not a made up character it’s a real person and you’re basically trying to change the heritage of the character to suit an agenda. Stupidity.

@pbooth81 @mat_hills @InquiringJoy @tansyrr Congratulations!

📢: THIS IS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF THE NEW DOCTOR WHO THEME TUNE!!!