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Nov. 6th, 2025 04:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rogueslayer452++ A combination of Dick Cheney dying, Zohran Mamdani winning the NYC mayoral election and the Dem sweep, I'd say November 4th was quite a successful day politically. Obviously we're still fucked in the current grand scheme of things, but at least this didn't feel me with overwhelming dread and is a step in the right direction.
++ Jon Stewart announced that he's extending hosting The Daily Show into 2026, and Stephen Colbert teases the comeback of his Colbert Report character. Yes, it does feel like we're back with early 00s politics, but their commentary through jokes and satire were what made most of us back then sane.
++ In unsurprising news: Disney ends its partnership with Doctor Who, the show will still continue with the BBC. This isn't shocking, we all saw this coming a mile away, it just took too damn long for the announcement to happen when it shouldn't have. It was inevitable considering the many delays, so much so that the main actor himself, Ncuti Gatwa, asked to leave the show while a lot of things were still in limbo. With that being said, in the end this whole arrangement was quite a blunder and was just a waste of time, resources, and questionable creative decisions right from the jump.
Now that this has been confirmed, after the planned Christmas special for next year I do think the show needs a break. Not an exceedingly long one as suggested by others, but long enough of a pause to regroup and figure out where they want to go with the show itself.
++ Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are in talks for returning in a new The Mummy movie. The Mummy and The Mummy Returns were both such good movies, easily the most fun action/adventure kind of story with an excellent cast with good chemistry. On one hand I'm stoked to have both Fraser and Weisz returning, however I'm also apprehensive because, these days, the way current media is aside, revived franchises aren't always going to do well. It has to feature the elements which made the original work so well in order for it to flourish, and sometimes the magic just cannot be recaptured even with the best attempts (see: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, the third movie of which we don't speak of, and The Scorpion King, a pretty decent movie imho but didn't really hold up to what made the original two stand-out). With that being said I'm willing to give it a try should this go forward, because I adore Brendan and Rachel's chemistry since they made Rick and Evie's whole relationship work so beautifully, and I'm happy that there's a Brendan Fraser renaissance in recent years and I think many fans of The Mummy movies will appreciate seeing him and Rachel back in the roles.
++ Jon Stewart announced that he's extending hosting The Daily Show into 2026, and Stephen Colbert teases the comeback of his Colbert Report character. Yes, it does feel like we're back with early 00s politics, but their commentary through jokes and satire were what made most of us back then sane.
++ In unsurprising news: Disney ends its partnership with Doctor Who, the show will still continue with the BBC. This isn't shocking, we all saw this coming a mile away, it just took too damn long for the announcement to happen when it shouldn't have. It was inevitable considering the many delays, so much so that the main actor himself, Ncuti Gatwa, asked to leave the show while a lot of things were still in limbo. With that being said, in the end this whole arrangement was quite a blunder and was just a waste of time, resources, and questionable creative decisions right from the jump.
Now that this has been confirmed, after the planned Christmas special for next year I do think the show needs a break. Not an exceedingly long one as suggested by others, but long enough of a pause to regroup and figure out where they want to go with the show itself.
++ Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are in talks for returning in a new The Mummy movie. The Mummy and The Mummy Returns were both such good movies, easily the most fun action/adventure kind of story with an excellent cast with good chemistry. On one hand I'm stoked to have both Fraser and Weisz returning, however I'm also apprehensive because, these days, the way current media is aside, revived franchises aren't always going to do well. It has to feature the elements which made the original work so well in order for it to flourish, and sometimes the magic just cannot be recaptured even with the best attempts (see: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, the third movie of which we don't speak of, and The Scorpion King, a pretty decent movie imho but didn't really hold up to what made the original two stand-out). With that being said I'm willing to give it a try should this go forward, because I adore Brendan and Rachel's chemistry since they made Rick and Evie's whole relationship work so beautifully, and I'm happy that there's a Brendan Fraser renaissance in recent years and I think many fans of The Mummy movies will appreciate seeing him and Rachel back in the roles.
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Date: 2025-11-09 01:52 am (UTC)Unfortunately, they have. It seems that there is this rhetoric going around that he didn't "care enough" about the role or the legacy of Doctor Who by comparing his involvement with promoting the show versus the previous actors before him. I knew that this was going to happen once his departure was announced, so I'm not surprised but it's still disappointing to see nonetheless. :/
I do wonder what Ncuti Gatwa's era would've looked like sans Disney/RTD's involvement. I guess we'll never know.
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Date: 2025-11-10 03:30 pm (UTC)Ugh.
People know that the actors have NO bearing whatsoever on whether the show continues, right? It's mostly corporate overlords and producers and other people who control where the money goes? I mean, we all have favorites, but good lord. I remember seeing a lot of similar buzz during Jodie Whittaker's run, and I loved her run.
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Date: 2025-11-10 11:57 pm (UTC)At the end of the day, this whole situation was fucked by the producers, showrunner (RTD), and the House of Mouse. The actors are there to do a job, and because of what was happening behind-the-scenes Ncuti Gatwa didn't want to be beholden to a massive greedy corporation which would be putting his entire career on hold. It sucks that it came to that, but I don't blame him for choosing to leave.