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I've only mentioned this complaint to one other Londoner (to my knowledge), who agreed with me that it took some effort to ignore, and described her as sounding "stage school". Don't know if there's any others around these parts to corroborate or argue otherwise. But I imagine it would be of no consequence at all to…

I thought her main skill was being an awesome mechanic. A decent (but not amazing) pilot who knew her way around the local ruins better than non-locals would. A necessarily experienced fighter with her stick, which is a good basis for swordfighting. Add a bit of force-related enhanced spatial awareness and reaction…

Entirely serious. I believe many actors are able to modify their voices to simulate accents other than their own. She (or the director) has chosen to use an accent particularly associated with wealthy private-school types, which sounds incongruous given the character's circumstances. Yes, I know it's a made-up culture…

I liked Rey all the time she was fighting, running, basically anything other than talking. What were they thinking with that accent?

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Fab symphony, and I'll listen to it as a piece of music, but the 2nd mvt is so overused on soundtracks that it actually takes me out of the story.

I think you mean "that bit of Beethoven that's in EVERYTHING".

So I watched all the episodes in both your lists, including all of S3. Was a good call, you are all correct in that it did get a lot better, and although I didn't think much of S1, I'm retrospectively glad to have seen some of them for backstory. Looking forward to 4.

Not to everyone's taste, but would say worth checking out if you like a bit of miserable dystopia…

Depends how much you were able to speed up movement/coordination, e.g. to type faster. Would be pretty happy to get my whole day's work done in an hour then take the rest of the day off…

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I recently had a go on trombone and french horn, and for both could get notes out of the things within a minute, having never played a brass instrument before. Not in tune obviously, or even the notes I was aiming for, but still, a selection of notes. Is bugle embouchure so much harder? Switching between 3-4 harmonics…

Like in the last ep of Black Mirror?

Ok, that makes sense… in a world where the half hour is the minimum unit of time that clocks or brains can cope with.

This may be a a stupid question, but why cut stuff out at all? If you want to insert ads, why not stop programme, insert ads, pick up where you left off? It would end up a bit longer but so what? And there is this thing fast forward.

Logically I agree with your point about the repeated 'nope, still dreaming' thing - but OTOH, do you ever have long series of multiple nested dreams like that (with or without monsters)? I do, and found it tonally very convincing, so liked it for that reason. (As I did Inception.)

Don't know what's going on with Disqus today - my comments keep vanishing.

Eh? My comment disappeared. Testing testing 123.

No, I get why she was listening to that piece. I just thought it was a particularly dull, slow recording of B6 that she'd chosen, out of the hundreds(?) available. (Or rather, that the programme makers had chosen for her.)

No, I get why she was listening to the piece - I just didn't think it was a very good recording of B6! (i.e. poor choice on the part of whoever chose that particular CD)