I stopped watching the Vampire Diaries around the start of season three, my love of Damon stopped trumping my annoyance at Elena but The Originals has been piquing my interest for a while...but the thought of catching up on VD makes me cringe. So my question is can The Originals be watched happily without the back…

My 56 year old father is obsessed with minions, to the point that his sms tone is that whole banana/potato/whatever minion song from the second movie and he will not read a message until the whole damn thing has play through. Drives everyone bonkers.

Mildly intrigued and willing to stick it for a bit to see where it goes is exactly how I came away from this first ep. I enjoyed it and I did love some of the acting but even though I just watched it a few hours ago, it hasn't really lingered in my mind for me the way a really good show will but it does have the…

Ever since I was about 12/13 and first read the Harper Hall trilogy I have wanted one of Pern's fire lizards as a pet. I really want my own little golden queen, just like Menolly's beauty.

It's funny I could never really get into the Merry Gentry books, I read a couple but never got further than that. As for Anita Blake I actually stopped reading them somewhere around book 12/13/14 years ago because I got a little sick of the 'sex, sex, story, sex, sex, orgy, story, sex'. But half through last year I…

If something entertains me I can over look a lot of faults, I tend to like a lot of stuff that other people consider 'bad' but really if it's enjoyable who cares if it's cheesy or inaccurate or full of plot holes etc.

I like Dragonlance and I'm sure I'd probably enjoy a TV/Movie version of it but if I had to choose one fantasy series as the-next-big-live-action-thing it would be Pern. I have been wanting that since I was about 13 and read the Harper Hall trilogy before devouring the rest of the available books. The Pern universe…

I'm not a comics person, my only real knowledge of the Marvel verse is the current movie franchise/SHIELD so I have absolutely no expectations about how the villains/other marvel characters they've introduced are gonna have their stories played out. I think that lack of expectation may be one of the reason I'm…

I'm quietly looking forward to Vampire Academy, I read the first few books a little while ago when I was bored and stumbled over the first one and it was an enjoyable diversion, hoping the movie will be a nice bit of silly summer (Aussie) fun.

Urg, this is a huge pet peeve of mine. I get that some people don't like Abrams and that's fair enough but for a lot of these shows his name is attached only because they are Bad Robot productions.

Oh god yes!

I like the concept of The 100 but sadly that trailer didn't fill me with hope. Will still check it out though. However I didn't actually realise it was based on a book, might have a looksee next time I'm bored.

Canada's overall rank was 25, North Korea was 36 so Canada is above it.

I am about ready to proclaim PoI as my favourite show ever, it's been in my top 5 about half way through season one but I've never actually declared one show above any other before it's always kinda just been a tie between my top shows but PoI's awesomeness can not be denied.

I'd happily steal some of your polar vortex induced cold today, it's already 35°C where I am at 10:30am, with a forecast top of 45°C and the rest of the week isn't looking much better.

It made me think more Jake 2.0 than Chuck just without the comedy aspect of the 'wrong' guy having the computer in his head (though I think it was nano bots in Jake 2.0, not a chip).

I've only read Seanan McGuire's stuff that she's written under the pen name Mira Grant and I've been meaning to give her McGuire stuff ago since I loved Parasite and the Newsflash trilogy. Is all the stuff she writes under the name McGuire is fantasy?

This list has just made me realise how little I've read this year that wasn't old stuff that's been on my to read list for years. I think of the few 'this years' books that I've read Parasite by Mira Grant was the only one I read cover to cover in one sitting, I freaking loved that book. I then went and hunted up…

Read the summery of Intelligence and all I could think of was Jake 2.0 which was nanobots instead of a brain chip but basically same outcome, he could hook up to basically anything electrical.

Eccleston is my favourite by a long shot, for me NuWho Doctors rank Eccleston -big gap-> Smith -> Tenant. He was so broken, so full of rage and despair and so desperately trying to hold onto to his wonder at the universe. I also got a real alien-ness from him. Tenant gave off more of a capricious, trickster god…