But no dragon... yet!

Good heavens, not a single peep from the MS apologists so far.

It's really like Sony and Microsoft just didn't give two shits this time around. The PS3 and Xbox 360 were distinctive and aesthetically pleasing. The new consoles are both so bland and boring that they look near identical. Cheap and tacky DVD-players usually look more impressive.

Technically it's a parallelepiped.

I agree, I have no idea how Ancel ended up adding such a crappy character design to the series. I guess it was forced on them from above. Ly from Rayman 2 would have been far better. Or just a decent original design. Why on Earth is there a Viking in the Glade of Dreams? Just plain lazy.

A Song of Ice and Fire is a mix mash of historical events. Slavery ended in the West because white people decided to free the slaves, not because the slaves revolted. How can portraying history be racist? Is George R. R. Martin really obliged to only write ahistorical events appealing to liberalism*? That sounds…

Please stop with the lame attempts at trolling and please stop with the nonsensical semantic retorts, I really am totally uninterested.

Yeah, I'd heard he means to show it. It's just that it's Gandalf's business, so it's very hard for me to see how it wouldn't all feel very superfluous to Bilbo's main narrative, and to see what exactly the several hours of film will be occupied with. It doesn't sound like it'll appeal to anybody but LotR nerds... I…

At least when you couch them in terms like "in practice" which means practical which means based on the way things are in the world.

Anybody else think the design of the entrace is fantastic?

A lot of the movie (if not the majority of it) is taken from the Silmarillion, not The Hobbit.

I don't think there's been any word whatsoever, has there..?

if your opinions had any basis in fact

N.B. I now realise that it is in actual fact Sunday.

You've lost me bro. I never "dismissed your statements as just an opinion", I said you were talking as if your opinions were objectively correct and my opinions were objectively incorrect and delusional. In reality we're both just espousing our personal views. Geddit?

And you're not?

Oh okay, no, sorry. I'm vaguely aware you have different terminology in the US. Broadsheets here deal with serious news. The more light-hearted ones will splash some entertainment on the cover sometimes, but the Telegraph is more formal. I don't doubt the story made most or all of the front pages of the tabloids,…

Fair enough. I just disagree pretty strongly, and I think a large majority find Smith and certainly Tennant to be more watchable, memorable doctors.

Funny how "uneccentric and brooding" Doctors are forgotten in Denziloe's world.

Naturally I'm talking about the UK papers. It wasn't front page of the Telegraph, I just checked it. There's a difference between broadsheets and tabloids. If Smith definitively leaving didn't make the front page, there's zero chance a mere job offer would, especially on a busy Monday.