Just the flexibility to get it done on your own terms, really.

I mean, is it any COINCIDENCE that this episode was set in FLORIDA?

I thought this was a very mild, even gentle depiction of Whovians.

Oh it was, but…Reddit’s gonna Reddit, and the internet’s gonna internet.

In terms of the “American” accents, I’m not a native English speaker, so a lot of that detail goes by me unnoticed.

Honestly, it’s not even the accent. I think the guy’s accent was…adequate (full disclosure, I’m Canadian, so I can’t judge US accents too harshly). But the dialogue often seems just a little stilted to me, with word choices that don’t quite seem to align with what an American would say.

The most egregious DW example to me is from way back in “The Poison Sky”/“The Sontaran Strategem”, when the ostensibly American Luke Rattigan kept ranting about how “clever” he was, which is simply not something an American (or Canadian, for that matter) would say. Nothing in this episode rose to that level, but it just seemed a little off.

I’m by no means defending this move (it’s dumb and bad, just like…everything else the US government does these days), but they seem to be delegating the inspections to individual states.

I assume at least some states will maintain good standards, and Canada will have to pay close attention to which states those are.

All told, I was in line for about 90(!) minutes yesterday. That was at least partly the luck of the draw, though - my polling place had two polling stations open, and the other one had a line the fraction of the length of mine.

No need for spoiler tags in these threads, people should know what they’re getting into!

I don’t think I’m quite as high on it as you are, but that was a lot of fun.

I’m getting flashbacks to “Idiot’s lantern”

For sure - I know that’s not a terribly well-regarded episode, but this was a good execution of that basic premise. I thought a lot about “Flatline” as well.

I like how the segregation was handled with seriousness, but wasn’t turned into a hamfisted Teaching Opportunity.

I’ve often thought that there’s a core tension with addressing civil rights issues on DW - they’re important, and they absolutely should be addressed…but they also run the risk of dominating every single episode in which they’re relevant (which, unfortunately, is a lot of them). I think it was handled pretty well in the Whitaker era, and that continues here.

F—, the giggle…!

A blindingly obvious connection that I didn’t expect (mainly because I don’t spend a lot of time speculating). I’m actually glad RTD continues to lean into these incomprehensible beings that play by their own rules.

The (fictional) fans were lovely, and tragic, and clever

I look forward to the rage of people who feel like they’ve been attacked. The fans were a lot of fun, and I fully expect to see them again in “Wish World.” It just seems like they have a larger role to play, and their whole deal seems to overlap with Mrs. Flood’s.

All in all, a really deftly-handled episode. A fun, one-off story that also manages to further the Doctor/Belinda relationship, and continue to seed the season-long arc.

My biggest complaint? Logan, the diner employee. I feel like this show has a long history of trying and failing to write natural-sounding American dialogue, and Logan unfortunately got the worst of it. The time period helps to paper it over to an extent, but it bumped me almost every time he said more than a handful of words.

I’m standing in line at the polls right now, and all I can say is to be prepared for long lines.

Is keep getting wrong the same as lying?

Probably. But no journalistic outlet is going to call it “lying” without proof that the leaders don’t sincerely believe what they’re saying.

And that sort of proof is hard to get.

The video is 1 hour 14 minutes long.

Absolute madness.

Respect.

From what I’m seeing on Mastodon, there was some kind of altercation between Ezra Levant and other reporters…

If the premiere is on June 14, I guess my new guess for the full release is June 19?

Apparently they did some kind of press junket - io9 has an article as well.

Pure, unsourced conjecture.

• In early April 2025, a rumor began to spread that U.S. President Donald Trump had backed down on tariffs because Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney forced his hand by orchestrating a collective sale of U.S. bonds.

• It is true that Trump paused tariffs after the price of U.S. Treasurys began to drop at the same time as the price of U.S. stocks plummeted, an event known as a synchronized sell-off. In fact, after he announced the pause, Trump said, “bond markets are tricky.”

• However, the claim that Carney had orchestrated the bond sell-off alongside the European Union and Japan was not confirmed. It came from the newsletter of Dean Blundell, a staunch supporter of Carney in Canada’s next federal election and a former “shock jock.”

• Snopes has contacted Blundell, asking him to explain how he came upon this story and to clarify some points from his allegations.

• Snopes also contacted Carney’s office asking for confirmation of Blundell’s claims. Lastly, we have reached out to several fixed income analysts to inquire about the plausibility of such a scheme.

Those requirements are designed to allow Quebec’s provincial party a seat at the table

Certainly, and I’ve already expressed how I feel about that. But I get it - they’re able to leverage the electoral system to their advantage, and have in fact been the Official Opposition at times.

I certainly agree that it’s very questionable to have an explicitly regional party in the federal debates, but for clarity’s sake, the criteria are 2/3 of the following:

• having at least one sitting MP who’s been elected as a member of that party

• having at least four per cent national support in opinion polls

• running candidates in at least 90 per cent of all ridings

After pulling the candidates, the Green Party only meets one of these criteria (the first).

It comes up all the time in the wider Trek community, too - nothing will ever be as good as whatever was on TV when you were 14.

That is one of many Reddit communities that I just couldn’t get into.

Semantics aside, I can’t see how the RTD2 era is any different from the RTD1 era, other than them having more money to throw around.

It seems like a lot of people need to consider whether it’s the show or themselves that has changed.

there was some debate as to whether the prime directive applied as the Baku weren’t native to the planet.

…which is an absolutely insane debate. No one tries to argue that the PD doesn’t apply to the Romulans, even though they’re not native to their world.

Colony planets aren’t considered “fair game” for interference.

The Prime Directive is that the Federation won’t interfere with the development of a pre-warp society.

While warp capability (or a rough equivalent) is the prerequisite for first contact, the Prime Directive is broader, forbidding intervention in the internal affairs of any non-Federation civilization.

Even better - “Bachman-Turner Overdrive” will be the actual street name (which, upon further research, is strictly commemorative).