Given demographers' woeful record in predicting population trends, I wouldn't lend too much credence to projections over 80 years away. But even assuming just the current population, the idea that it would merely 'continue to strain' the biosphere, rather than do much more irreparable harm, is a gigantic assumption.

Yeah. That stood out to me too. Overpopulation might not be a Malthusian problem, in the sense of dwindling food resources, but it's definitely an environmental one.

Likewise. :-)

More clearly choreographed, more at stake, better character arcs for both Vader and Luke.

It might be an age difference. I can understand why a teenager wouldn't like the Ewoks , but I was still young enough for them to be cute and sympathetic. RotJ meanwhile had the fuck-off space battle, the swashbuckling sail barge rescue, the speeder bikes and a better lightsaber duel between Vader and Luke, with the…

I still think it's a great movie, especially now I'm older and can see what it was going for, and it's still a lot better than almost everything else. But it's not as quite as good as the other two, especially the first, which is pretty much perfect.

Exactly my feeling too. It had those ridiculous giant metal dogs at the start, the icky kissy stuff between Han and Leia, the most boring martial arts training sequences in movie history on Dagobah, and ended on a really confusing set of action sequences with
Luke (seriously, where were all those rooms and tunnels in…

She'd make a wonderful Doctor.

Oh, yeah, I believe you. I just saw an excuse to post that video. :)

a girl on there kept insisting that she was best friends with Courtney Love

Re. Enigma: yeah, saying it was doomed from the start does a pretty big injustice to all the people, not just Turing, who worked to crack it. Enigma worked for a long time and its failure wasn't inevitable by any means.

She had a weird bobble-headed affect in Inside Man as well.

It's someone cosplaying as Spider Jerusalem, the lead character of Warren Ellis's Transmetropolitan:

The equivalent of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. would, obviously, be:

Thank-you, Pina Bausch!

Dreading the end of this: more disaster porn. Bleh.

Yeah. This exactly. And that would definitely be a reason Elba might have turned it down: he's spoken in interviews before about not wanting to be seen as 'the black guy', and he's very career-minded at a time where getting the role probably wouldn't do him much good and could do him much harm (unlike Capaldi, who's…

Y'know, those are exactly my thoughts. It's long past time there was a female Doctor (and someone posted on the OD that it had been considered after Tom Baker, so it's been on the agenda for a long time), but please only after Moffat has left.

Co-signed on both, but especially the first. The only use to that rivalry is that I can immediately write off as an idiot anyone who actually goes in for it.

Yes, THANK YOU re Side Effects.