#WhoCulture: The 10 Biggest Mistakes Of The #DoctorWho #Disney Era (aka #DisneyWho)

Posted on December 25, 2025 by toddpanther

Since there is no #DoctorWhoChristmasSpecial….Wrote this in this #YouTube video’s Comments section in November and scheduled it here for today (X-Mas)

Right on time!!!
• I watched #MaryPoppins over the (American) Thanksgiving, and I was like, “Ahh….” I’m stuck on No. 9. The Doctor is supposed to be a hero scientist who acts like Poppins, not the opposite. I love mythology, but #DoctorWho is not a purely mythological show–yes, “full-time fantasy mode.” I mean, #Lux (one of my favorites!) had a #MaryPoppins segment! That’s what I recognized!
• I also agree with No. 10. #NcutiGatwa didn’t spend his entire life wanting to be The Doctor. A young and ambitious man, it’s clear he would have been OK if he had gone with his other request to his agent, #WillyWonka. His becoming a supporting character in his own show was not a problem to me as long as the writing was excellent (#73Yards).
• The re/bi-generation issue is not a big one for me. Agreed that the Rani thing only made sense because it gave her someone with whom to chat. Yeah, lack of a plan…bad mysteries (ex: snow? Why?)
• #RubySunday and #BelindaChandra had no time to develop. Ruby’s family was better developed.
• #Disney didn’t get it and just wanted it to work on its own as a legacy program.
• Fourteenth should have started with #Boom. Like many a #DisneyWho episode, it felt like a bad and discarded #SarahJaneAdventures idea. Once you do episodes like #VincentandtheDoctor and #HellBent / #HeavenSent, you can’t go back and emphasize the goofy parts of say, #TheEndofTheWorld.
• My verdict: too much freedom and confidence are bad for an artist, particularly one wanting to spend a huge budget and get a new audience while trying to serve an old one. But art does require risk, and they were indeed taken. In this case, as was this past season of #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds, it was too much of, in the words of the Purple One, the immortal #Prince: “Let’s go crazy/Let’s get nuts…”

#DoctorWho #WhoCulture #EllieLittlechild

P.S. DECEMBER 23rd TWEET:

Todd Steven Burroughs
@ToddStevenBurr1

TheWarBetweenTheLandAndTheSea is no #DoctorWhoSeason4 or #DoctorWhoSeason9, but it has made the often-painful excesses of #DisneyWho go down much smoother. Totally worth it! #DoctorWho #WhoCulture

My Pictorial Take On #TheWarBetweenTheLandandtheSea, The #DisneyPlus #DoctorWho #DoctorWhoUNIT Spinoff [VISUAL SPOILERS]

Posted on December 22, 2025 by toddpanther

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#NBC’s #TheTodayShow/ #MSNOW’s #MorningJoe: Architects of #AI Named #TimeMagazine #TimeMag #Times2025PersonoftheYear (And Some Reactions)

Posted on December 11, 2025 by toddpanther

THE ARTICLE:

https://time.com/7339685/person-of-the-year-2025-ai-architects/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=111225

SOME REACTIONS:

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Asante Sana, #HRapBrown #ImamJamilAlAmin

Posted on November 24, 2025 by toddpanther

Dear Friends of SNCC,
The family of Jamil Al-Amin aka H. Rap Brown announced his passing on Sunday, October 23, 2025 at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina. Jamil Al-Amin served as the fifth Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Before becoming SNCC Chairman, Jamil was an active member of the Howard University SNCC chapter the Nonviolent Action Group (NAG). He also worked in the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project, and organizing in Greene County, Alabama in 1965-1966. Jamil Al-Amin is the author of two books, Die Nigger Die (1969) and Revolution by the Book (1993).
The SNCC family offers its condolences and love to Jamil’s wife Karima Al Amin and son Kairi.
While chairman of SNCC, Jamil asserted that “violence was as American as cherry pie.” His statement referred to the thousands of Black and Brown men, women and children who were and are brutalized and killed in America without any accountability. The violent deaths of Medgar Evers, Sandra Bland, Emmitt Till, Aura Rooser, Jimmie Lee Jackson, Michelle Cusseaux, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mya Hall, Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner, Janisha Fonville, Tamir Rice, Natasha McKenna, George Floyd and Freddie Gray are an undeniable part of America’s history.
In 2025, thousands of Brown men, women and children are being swept off the streets by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and disappeared without due process. Unlike white Americans, Black and Brown people are presumed guilty and are subjected to being stopped, frisked, detained, jailed, and/or shot.
After serving as SNCC Chairman, Jamil was arrested for robbery and jailed in Attica Prison from 1971 to 1976. While in prison he joined the Muslim faith and changed his name from Hubert Gerold “Rap” Brown to Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
Since 2000, Jamil had been serving a life sentence for the accused murder of two Deputy Sheriffs in Fulton County, Georgia. Jamil’s son, Kairi, has been working for more than a decade to secure his father’s release from prison. He has continually stated that there was evidence to prove Jamil innocent of the murders.
It is the hope of SNCC veterans, who over the past 65 years have engaged in the struggle to make America a less violent society for Black and Brown people, that all Americans will continue the very hard work of fighting against all forms of inequality and injustice. We must ensure that America becomes a place where all people feel safe and are not subjected to violence by federal, state or local governments, and non-state actors because of the color of their skin.