Yeah. Just so there’s no confusion about this— I don’t care what they’re called. Call them center-clockwise. Call them democraps. Call them lumpsuckers. I genuinely do not care.

Hot take. But Doctor Who needs to feel like I Saw the TV Glow. It needs to be eerie and lo-fi and experimental, with almost deliberately janky vfx. To my point, the Mondasian Cybermen… The cloth-masked version is hands-down the creepiest Cybermen design.

I am neurodivergent and have been medicated for ADHD for about 24 years. This was a life-altering intervention. When I was diagnosed, I’d just flunked out of college. After, I got into film school, earned a 4.0 GPA, wrote A Killing on Carnival Row, and began my professional career. So… assess that.

First time I’ve typed these words in a script… 🥹

It’s a drought. You want us to pipe water from Northern California to— what? Water our woods?

Do that for a while and you end up with this—

There are two ways to shoot a scene scripted to take place in “a foggy forest.” The easiest way is to shoot whatever weather you’ve got on the day. The other way is best illustrated in this old pic from my camera roll…

He’s like: “Wait wait!! … I can explain…”