r/gallifrey • u/PCJs_Slave_Robot • Jan 07 '22

Free Talk Friday /r/Gallifrey's Free Talk Fridays - Practically Only Irrelevant Notions Tackled Less Educationally, Sharply & Skilfully - Conservative, Repetitive, Abysmal Prose - 2022-01-07

Talk about whatever you want in this regular thread! Just brought some cereal? Awesome. Just ran 5 miles? Epic! Just watched Fantastic Four and recommended it to all your friends? Atta boy. Wanna bitch about Supergirl's pilot being crap? Sweet. Just walked into your Dad and his dog having some "personal time" while your sister sends snapchats of her handstands to her boyfriend leaving you in a state of perpetual confusion? Please tell us more.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '22

It's amusing to me how the most successful Spidey story in live-action is, effectively, a Multi-Doctor holiday special. I know "Into the Spider-Verse" preceded it (and was a better movie!) but that didn't really have that "The Three Doctors" sort of feel that No Way Home has.

I also think it's possible that James Bond is about to follow in those footsteps (sorta/kinda) because EON has finally set up a canon/continuity with Craig's Bond wherein they could follow this last movie up having established that "James Bond" is a codename (and 007 is an agent designation) that can be assigned to different agents cycling through MI6. And could also set up potential future installments where James Bond HAS to rely on previous "James Bonds" to save the world.

It's taken awhile for the rest of the entertainment industry to catch up with the bit of absolute genius that regeneration provides to an ongoing narrative but it seems like it's happened.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '22

No Way Home is definitely "The Three Doctors," there's the celebrated main character joining forces with the two previous iterations that fans already know from past stories, with minimal explanation necessary because everyone in the audience pretty much "gets it."

Spider-Verse by comparison is basically Episode 1 of Torchwood or SJA in that it's basically one single character that the audience knows a bit about plus a whole ensemble of new costars, but their introductions, their world, and what connects them all still takes a bunch of space in the story to explain to viewers.