I am excited to see Ace on a level that only someone who also halls from the Boredom Capital of the Universe and whose Doctor is the Seventh Doctor can know. Eeeeeeee!

Every time I see it done with the string of pearls breaking and scattering everywhere, I just think how badly strung that necklace was, not to be knotted between each one. Crappy pearls, Martha. Just saying.

I’ll do YOU one better; what did this get made?

Pretty sure that's not how you spell her surname.

It made literally no fucking sense that Ray didn’t believe Egon. The whole point of Ray is that he believes everything going, and then suddenly when it’s convenient for the plot, he decides to disbelieve his friend and colleague, about a subject on which they both have ample prior experience? Bollocks to that.

I reread it a couple of weeks ago in readiness for watching it. It’s interesting how much and how specifically you know what’s going to happen - it’s practically an episode of Columbo in that respect. I was also really struck by how the POV head-hops all over the shop - a lot, lot, lot of information is conveyed by…

Have they... have they put a massive Brussels sprout on one of those coasters in the photos?

Quite looking forward to this. Thor The Dark World, of all things, set me off on a several years long theatregoing kick which has included seeing Tom Hiddleston in three different plays (Coriolanus which was fab, the Kenneth Branagh-directed Hamlet they did at Rada which ditto, and a bit of Pinter which, eh. I should…

Kenneth Branagh was a really good choice of director - people think of him as being a serious Shakespearean, and he absolutely is, but he’s also really funny (I’ve seen him on stage, in a play he directed, completely sending himself up, and he was great). That combination was exactly what Thor needed - it had to be…

Actually, thinking about this even more, if the goal is ‘Make More Mutants’ then where does that leave people who would prefer to be childfree? Is it a moral obligation to reproduce? Or would there be an expectation that you’d contribute your genetic material, even if you yourself didn’t want to parent any resulting…

I suppose one option, just to take the idea here and run with it, would be for the population of Krakoa to embrace assisted reproductive technologies - IVF with PGS, for instance, would I guess allow the inhabitants to pre-select only those embryos with the X gene. And there again you’d get into some complicated and…

Random culinary fact: real Turkish Delight is made with cornflour rather than gelatin. It still has a jelly-like texture but it's made differently (and is vegetarian).

For... being good at his job, I guess?

Proper authentic Turkish Delight is lovely (although I grant you it’s very very sweet and perhaps more perfumed than you may be expecting if you’ve never had it - but if you get one with, say, pistachio nuts in it cuts the sweetness down and adds some crunch). Cheap Turkish Delight is, indeed, pretty grim.

Hmmmmmm.

And Walker just happens to have really really fast reflexes and epic stamina and be remarkably strong, huh?

‘Guess what, everyone? They used special effects to make the Snyder Cut! Ciaran Hinds isn’t actually covered in spikes in real life!’

I will acknowledge that the ogling was mutual but neither that, nor the rescuing, makes it okay to get all touchy with someone who isn't in a position to prevent or decline it. 

Not being funny but if a perfect stranger (who’d just been ogling me) paused in the middle of saving me from certain death to rearrange my hair (while suggestive pork products sailed past my head) I would still find that pretty damn creepy. I mean, thanks for the rescue and all, but still.

My poor baby has been looking at me in baffled concern for the last ten minutes while I had hysterics at ‘plucks a weiner out of the air while caressing a total stranger’, so thanks for that.