Unrelated story about the Coke museum in Atlanta: I was taking the tour, and one of the exhibits is of the original machine that was first used to make coke - it looks rather like a porcelain waste basket.

What? Oh, you mean the 'full stop'?

I guess. I doubt they'll address it, so the people who don't care will continue not to care, and people like us can head-canon it away!

If Dragonstone works like any castle in that period should, I'd imagine there's a skeleton crew of locals running it in the Lord's absence. There must be land around the castle where people live (or where the hell have the Dothraki gone?), and the castle often provided important functions for the locals in the area -…

Are we calling his getup in 300 a cape or a cloak? Because I'm going to say one.

The conventional wisdom was, as the balls got lighter thanks to plastic replacing the soggy old leather medicine balls they used to use, that head injuries would go down.

There is a smaller scandal of the same kind in professional Rugby at the moment, and they're constantly trying new things to address the issue. They instituted a 10 minute time out for suspected head injuries back in 2012, similar to the compulsory substitution of players who are bleeding.

When I was taught Rugby at school they wouldn't even let you on the pitch until you'd had several lessons on how to tackle and how to be tackled in order to avoid neck injuries - its what you learn before you learn anything else about the game.

That always bugged me. I'm pretty sure Eagle Squadron were enthusiastic civilians rather than serving airmen!

"has actually made the world incrementally but demonstrably worse"

"I’d rather break this glass and slash my wrists. No, not at the moment. Not at all"

I've been a fan ever since I heard Head Over Heels in Donnie Darko, but I must disagree about Mother's Talk - that seems to me to have aged the worst of that album. Especially the minute-long drum machine outro at the end!

There were similar criticisms about Saving Private Ryan in Britain, where no British people are shown despite the majority of air and sea support (plus two beaches) were British.

Huh, interesting!

Exactly. Henry wasn't even representing the House of Lancaster at the time, and flew his Tudor Dragon instead - it was all a propaganda move afterwards.

And the Reynes and the Tarbecks!

To be fair, I think the confusion was a legitimate problem in wars of all kinds in those days - hence the banners and the brightly coloured shirts. I generally err on the charitable side and assume that the directors are trying to give the audience a sense of the confusion and fear of a real naval skirmish, but it…

Almost certainly named for Penistone in West Yorkshire, England - which features prominently in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Ol' Cathy was always climbing up there, the tart!

My first thought was that he might be another Time Lord called The Captain (to go along with The Doctor, The Master, The Corsair etc.). Though it would seem odd for TWO Time Lords to be obsessed with Earth.

It was pretty groundbreaking at the time, as the character was introduced in 1998 as a main character as a trans-woman in relationship with man.