Don’t get too excited - this is just the individual episodes of “Unleashed” for the season, stitched together.

Welcome to the regenerated Retrospective Discussions! The idea is simple: we discuss each episode as normal, but there’s no need to pretend the subesequent years of stories never happened - feel free to reference later continuity, compare it to future episodes, etc.

As long as the threads are minimally active, I’ll post one every Sunday until The War Between the Land and the Sea comes out, at which point we’ll shift are attention to that for a few weeks.

As for myself…I haven’t rewatched “Rose” yet, and haven’t seen it in a few years, so I’ll be back after I’ve rectified that situation.

Batel Watch 2025: maybe she survived the Gorn?

is this a cynical attempt to make political hay out of alluding to what has been said of Kinew’s past?

The PCs have done this for years, so it’s an understandable instinct.

That said…I’m not convinced that there isn’t a little fire beneath the smoke. The 2023 altercation was inconclusive. I just don’t know.

I think New Who has definitely danced on the razor’s edge, getting by with narrative shortcuts as long as the emotional resonance lands. And when a story doesn’t land with you, those shortcuts are very visible.

I actually do like the small bits of exploration of the a Timeless Child that RTD has done using it to inform the Doctor’s personality in new ways. It would be great to see a Jo Martin story or something like that, though.

Trying another “Flux”-type season could be interesting too - sort of a hybrid between the old serials and more modern episodes. Hell, the eight-episode seasons are practically begging for it.

The TARDIS materializes in 1990s San Francisco.

Billie Piper stumbles out, is shot almost immediately, regenerates into Paul McCann.

Just a quick snooze!

Personally, I’m quite certain that the answer is some version of Option 2. There will be a break - maybe a long one - but the show ultimately isn’t going anywhere.

That’s definitely the case when they use a “volume” AR wall, which I know they used during Season 1. Since the CGI environment is projected live behind the actors, it all has to be prepped in advance of filming.

From what I’ve seen of “Unleashed,” though, they’ve also been using a lot of old-fashioned green screen.

I’m sure more details will emerge, but:

Under the legislation, someone who is certified or licensed to perform specific skilled work in a province or territory that wants to take on a job doing the same thing for a federally regulated project will be deemed to have met that federal standard.

The government says recognizing provincial standards will open up job opportunities to workers and give employers a larger candidate pool to draw upon.

The bill only recognizes provincial standards at the federal level. Workers certified or licensed in one province that want to work in another will only be able to do so when that province or territory agrees to drop their trade barriers.

The federal government has rules and standards for businesses on top of regional requirements that apply across provincial and territorial borders.

Under the legislation, provincial standards for goods and services will be recognized as having already met federal standards. That means a province’s organic standards for food, or energy efficiency standards for appliances, will be treated as having met federal standards.

If we were to assign each poster to an episode - and I don’t know if we should, or if it’s more about vibes - here are my guesses.

“Through the Lens of Time”

“Wedding Bell Blues”

“A Space Adventure Hour”

“Terrarium”

“Shuttle to Kenfori”

How about the PMO?

Yeah, the Canadaland piece was mentioned, but not linked.

regular folks

I’m not even going to ask what your definition of that is.

border authorities had the power to open any and all mail weighing over 30 grams, for at least the last 30+ years.

And now that weight limit has been removed. It used to say, the Corporation may open any mail, other than a letter." Now it says, “the Corporation may open any mail.”

It repeals the portion of the Canada Post Corporation Act that says, “Notwithstanding any other Act or law, but subject to this Act and the regulations and to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act, the Customs Act and the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act, nothing in the course of post is liable to demand, seizure, detention or retention,” and replaces it with, “Nothing in the course of post is subject to demand, seizure, detention or retention, except in accordance with an Act of Parliament,” which is a massive expansion of the circumstances in which it can be done.

It also rewords the section on liability to ensure that there’s…no liability, for anyone, in cases where mail is seized.

Bill C2 gives police the ability to search mail when authorized in order to carry out a criminal investigation.

The bottom line is that these should be considered law enforcement activities, but there’s no warrant required. Just an “Act of Parliament.” There’s no probable cause defined here. Maybe you’re fine with that. I’m not.

But let’s not sweat things right now. This was the first reading, and all points of the bill can (and will) be debated. Expect tweaks, repeals, and amendments.

I agree with you to an extent on this one. But things are more likely to be tweaked if people make some noise.

Even the original YT video under discussion here said that this bill contains some entirely unobjectionable things. But it also contains things that I agree need another look, and in fact are downright Trumpian in some respects.

78 (1) Subsection 101(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act is amended by adding the following after paragraph (b):

(b.‍1) the claimant entered Canada after June 24, 2020 and made the claim more than one year after the day of their entry;

That’s the entire passage in question.

There are legal ways to visit Canada for extended periods of time.

If, during that time, a person’s country is invaded or otherwise made unsafe, do you still have no problem kicking them out?

I think this season - finale aside - was the best season in years, but I still think you made some good points.

it feels like the Doctor kind of just stands around listening to exposition a lot more in recent seasons

This was certainly a problem in the last couple of episodes, and Jodie’s Doctor did her fair share of that, too. Ncuti’s Doctor was also absent a lot in season one (“Dot and Bubble” and “73 Yards” constitute 1/4 of the season!).

Okay, if you need it spelled out for you, I didn’t say organized crime never involves abuse of the immigration system, postal service, or online service providers. I said the bill reaches well beyond that goal (if indeed that is the goal, which is questionable to say the least).

Go construct your straw men some place else.

all of which reach way beyond organized crime.

C’mon, don’t insult us both by pretending you can’t read.

So you started with “there’s no reason to appease the US,” and have now landed on, “they say they’re trying to appease the US by giving them things they want, but they don’t really mean it”?

And that ignores all of the other things in this bill that are about immigration, and asylum seekers, and being able to sieze peoples’ mail, and forcing online providers to give up user data, all of which reach way beyond organized crime.