I look forward to seeing how the North's new gimp army performs in battle.

It's best not to delve into the UK's commonwealth immigration policies too closely. Basically we have 'tiers' of countries that receive preferential visas, and guess which ones live in the top tier? Canada, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong. The less 'white' the country, the further down the tiers it goes.

Easy - they were largely auxiliaries, merchants and slaves brought from other parts of the Empire. The auxiliaries were rotated out, the merchants got the hell out when all the town burning started, and the slaves were property who got put on the boat home with the silverware and the donkeys.

I can confirm that it is something of a national pastime in Britain complaining about British characters being replaced by Americans in war movies

Sure, and that's wrong too - but we definitely shouldn't be making this deliberately ahistorical because it fits better with modern sensibilities

I think accuracy is a pretty fair defence against charges of racism in this scenario. Whitewashing is a problem in Hollywood, but this isn't an example of it.

One of their regiments is based near me. I'd like to thank them for filling an otherwise ordinary small town with Nepalese restaurants.

Fixed!

Class has always been much more important than race in good old British segregation, and immigrants ironically fared better in this regard because they were 'outside' the class system when they arrived.

There is definitely an Indian war story to be told, and it would probably be very interesting, with regards to the fighting in the far east. *Gandhi* encouraged Indians to participate against Hitler in exchange for independence after the war, but how would the ordinary soldier have felt about that? Would they have…

There weren't all that many black people generally in Britain before the 1950s, when West Indian people from the colonies such as Barbados and Jamaica were encouraged to emigrate to Britain to replace the war dead. Something under 1% of the population (and it was only 1.9% in 2001!).

It ruins the tension and the structure, in my opinion. If we're watching Tom Cruise hacking a computer in Mission Impossible while a bad guy approaches, the tension comes from the threat of him being discovered because we know these two actions are occurring simultaneously.

Sieges have been handled terribly by the show, which at least seems to pay lip service to the realities of medieval combat. They clearly don't want to actually see a proper siege through because it would take too much narrative time, and have the main characters away for too long - but even a pretty modest fortified…

Maybe they kept them alive deliberately in order to complicate Dany's plans - for the same reason its more effective to injure the enemy then to kill them, forcing their army to look after them and carry them around everywhere.

He taught me a valuable lesson about sibling relationships. Namely that it's OK to wipe the minds of inconvenient relatives

AFAIK the MACOs in Star Trek: Enterprise were basically space marines before the birth of the Federation, but they were absorbed and disbanded when Starfleet decided they were going to be super lame - and we never got the 8ft tall ceramite armoured super-soldiers we deserve

When the dear doctor complained about salty food at the replimat, I assumed it was his underdeveloped human tastebuds

Like all excess residue on board the hyper-efficient starfleet vessels, I assume it is added to the replicator gel packs and turned into earl grey tea and Andorian spice pudding

Arriving just after the end of every climactic battle, showdown or argument in the show.

The review this movie deserved