When The Mandalorian namedropped Tython last week, Star Wars fans who grew up reading the old Legends Expanded Universe of novels and comics likely gasped. Despite the planet’s history as the likely birthplace of the Jedi, Tython had never appeared in a Star Wars movie or TV series before Ahsoka mentioned the planet in “The Jedi.” Just a week later, we actually get to visit Tython in “The Tragedy,” an action-packed episode that sees Mando not only have to deal with Boba Fett but also an entire platoon of stormtroopers trying to steal Grogu for Moff Gideon....

In articles to accompany these fan polls, Tennant’s Doctor is described as ‘amiable’ in contrast to his predecessor Christopher Eccleston’s dark take on the character. Ten is ‘down-to-earth’, ‘romantic’, ‘sweeter’, ‘more light-hearted’ and the Doctor you’d most want to invite you on board the TARDIS. That’s interesting in some respects, because the Tenth Doctor is very much a Jekyll and Hyde character. He’s handsome, he’s charismatic, and travelling with him can be addictively fun, but he is also casually cruel, harshly dismissive, and lacking in self-awareness....

During a recent press conference promoting the upcoming Season 13 premiere, current showrunner Chris Chibnall answered some questions about “passing the baton” onto Davies, saying: “I’ve been throwing batons at people for about a year now and finally someone’s picked it up.” The comment suggests that the BBC potentially approached others about the Doctor Who showrunner position prior to offering the job to Davies, or perhaps that Davies was initially hesitant to pick up the baton, as it were, and took some convincing....

12.5 Fugitive Of The Judoon There’s a tendency to try and catalogue Doctor Who episodes into eras; neat little binders that fans of the show can use as convenient shorthand when we talk about the kind of atmosphere and tone a particular adventure evokes. Is it a gothic horror with a high body count and lots of brooding menace? We’ll call it a ‘Hinchcliffe’. Is it a breathless, brain-scrambling romp with some sort of paradox at the heart of it and a lot of weirdly flirty dialogue?...

Responsibility. It’s one of the most important lessons you can learn. It’s easy to think about yourself. To do whatever you want without worrying how it impacts others. For a rich billionaire, this is incredibly important to Scrooge’s character. In amassing all his wealth he can’t get off scot-free. He has to have hurt some people. The show has previously tackled this idea multiple times, especially when it came to Glomgold’s backstory....

While more definitive judgments on HBO’s Game of Thrones will likely be left to posterity, it has been long enough for Clarke—now free from the show’s publicity process—to offer her feelings about the finale in a recent interview for Sunday’s edition of U.K. paper The Times, brandishing the candor befitting of the Mother of Dragons… at least before she suddenly turned into a genocidal despot and sudden scourge of the Seven Kingdoms who had to be put down by Kit Harington’s Jon Snow....

Series eight concluded on ITV in September 2021 with a touching tribute to Inspector Morse actor John Thaw, and some uplifting words from Allam’s Fred Thursday. Having reached its 33rd episode (the same number of Morse stories filmed), many predicted eight would be Endeavour’s final series, though Allam suggested the drama would have “a few more to wrap things up”. Not least to wrap up the ongoing mystery of how and why his character has disappeared from Morse’s life by the time of the John Thaw incarnation....

Just because you’ve lost touch with someone doesn’t mean you don’t want to know when they fall into a sinkhole. That the point of Facebook – for keeping an eye on the triumphs and misfortunes of people you once knew but now can’t be bothered to talk to. Soap characters though, aren’t on Facebook. The closest you can get to nosing on their timeline is checking out the front covers of TV listings magazines in supermarket queues to see who’s been getting married/murdered or, commonly, both....

Fargo Season 4 Episode 1 It’s been a long wait for Fargo’s fourth season. Noah Hawley’s improbably good Coen Brothers adaptation arrived on the scene as an idiosyncratic, darkly funny crime story, but in its third season, its Midwest charm and stylish execution couldn’t quite hide the fact that the story was lacking and the schtick was wearing thin. Hawley decided to go back to the drawing board for Season 4, then was forced to delay his return to the anthology series a bit longer due to coronavirus shutting down production....

To be clear, Final Fantasy 14 has always excelled at the often tricky art of class balancing, and that trend continues in Endwalker. When we talk about one FF 14 class being better than another, we’re often talking about degrees of differences. More often than not, the best FF 14 class is still the one that you feel most comfortable with and have the most interest in playing. Having said all of that, here’s a rough overview of where the game’s various jobs currently stand....

From Marvel to Lucasfilm, from House of the Dragon to The Lord of the Rings, from one horror classic to another, Hollywood is fully investing in and doubling down on movies and TV series that show us what happened before the iconic or classic films and series that we already love, whether we really need to know what happened or not. The empire of dreams known as Tinseltown, alleged source of unbridled, endless creativity and imagination, is resorting to massive dumps of fan service, easter eggs, and the apparently bottomless pit of emotional nostalgia in the hopes that the combination of all these will keep hitting that dopamine button for fans, and keep the box office and streaming subscriptions humming....

The news was announced by HBO Monday evening, with the premium cable network revealing the English-born Considine is stepping into the crown of Viserys I after playing Mr. Martin on HBO’s The Third Day. The actor has previously appeared in The Outsider, The Death of Stalin, and Hot Fuzz. Aye, if you know your Westerosi history—and even if you don’t—Viserys I is crucial to what will likely be the series-long conflict of House of the Dragon....

While Gangs of London series 2 hasn’t been confirmed, there seems to be an appetite for it from show co-creator (along with Matt Flannery) Gareth Evans. Evans told The Metro: ‘There’s room for it. Without giving too much away, we definitely end the season on a note where people will be wanting more and asking what is happening next. ‘I’m treading carefully! It’s sort of a cliff-hanger but as most things it’s a story that takes on a lot of different aspects, there’s a lot of different characters in there, a lot of vested interests, there’s a lot of stray threats trailing in the wind ready to be picked up again....

Little surprise then, that the show has been renewed for a second series. Sky has announced that the show will be returning, with filming planned for next year with an air date scheduled for 2022. The announcement from Sky didn’t state in what capacity creators Gareth Evans and Matt Flannery would be returning. Similarly no announcement was made as to whether series directors Corin Hardy and Xavier Gens would be back, though all have said they’d have an appetite to come back to the show....

Girls Season 6 Episode 8 This is an odd episode of Girls that throws characters together unexpectedly and ends up being half upbeat and half super, super sad. The upbeat half involves Ray and, completely out of nowhere, Shoshanna’s former boss, Abigail (Aidy Bryant). This is a character I can’t say I ever thought about much or expected to ever see again, so that she showed up and then had an instant connection with Ray is quite the weird surprise....

Who is Guy Gardner? While that might sound like an easy question to longtime DC Comics readers, initiate fans only familiar with Green Lantern’s film and television iterations are likely unaware of the powder keg of un-PC repartee that the classic character’s live-action arrival prospectively wields for the eventually assembled onscreen ensemble. In fact, Gardner is so prominent that Warner Bros. Television’s notorious 1997 Justice League of America live-action television pilot used him as the titular team’s version of Green Lantern....

While we’ve previously discussed rumors regarding possible Grand Theft Auto 6 locations, those rumors focused on major fictional/real cities such as Vice City and London. This is the first time we’ve heard that Virginia could be a location candidate. To be honest, it’s the kind of rumor that we would usually treat as nothing more than wild internet speculation fuelled by people’s desires to play a new GTA game. Here’s the crazy thing, though....

Maybe it shouldn’t be a surprise to see these remasters fall quite so hard on their face given some of the botched remasters and new releases we’ve seen in recent years, but it is truly astonishing to witness just how bad these games really are on a purely technical level. There is no excuse for how these remasters turned out, but I’m darkly eager to hear an explanation for one of the year’s most disappointing releases....

I guess Michael stands out less because he was never part of anything excessively dumb. Oh yeah, he had a bunch of lesser sequels that culminated in being beat up by Busta Rhymes and there’s that Halloween III fiasco, but he never fell into the pop culture trap of other ’80s and ’90s boogeymen. He didn’t show up on Arsenio Hall’s show or appear in a Fat Boys music video, for starters....

This day and date “hybrid” strategy, which mixes online with theatrical distribution, has been described by WarnerMedia as a “unique one-year plan,” although many are dubious, likely including theater owners. AMC Theatres fired off a public statement that said, “Clearly Warner Media intends to sacrifice a considerable portion of the profitability of its movie studio division, and that of its production partners and filmmakers, to subsidize its HBO Max start up....