I know a lot of people think that, but I feel it peaked at its first season finale and was never that good again.

Yeah the movies go out of their way to make the dwarves look different, with less than half of them sporting the giant beards and Scottish accents of stock fantasy depictions; but then it doesn't do a lot to delineate them as people.

I think it's because while the film expands a lot on existing stuff - like the Erebor fight - the Legolas/Tauriel stuff was whole cloth movie. It's easier to latch onto, though I was pretty okay with Tauriel herself (she feels a lot like Liv Tyler's Arwen, but I liked Liv Tyler's Arwen.)

I'm actually fine with Coven. It's not Asylum, but Asylum is hard to top.

Season three of Farscape is pretty amazing; and while as a whole season four isn't as high as season three or two, it has a lot of great episodes and a fantastic finale.

I actually tried to buy Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos books at a London bookstore once, only to be told they're out of print.

TV:

He's a kid after my own heart. But then we've also seen him reference Game of Thrones without knowing what it is, so maybe he only says that because some other show had a Cheers reference he's repeating.

"Find the heart of his act and cut it out."

Episode 9: Regrets On My Bon Mot

Not just a TV show: A Ron 'Battlestar Galactica' Moore TV show. It also stars Tobias Menzies, aka Brutus from Rome (and Edmure Tully from Game of Thrones) as the character you refer to.

We already are, they are doing prequel movies or something.

It wouldn't be for no reason. He's an alien who radically transforms his appearance and has apparently has just turned Scottish this year and has been a variety of different British types. Just as, say, Bond has been Irish and Australian and Batman has been Welsh. The difference obviously is the Doctor has a story…

This is correct. I watched the teaser so I spent the entire episode waiting for the Daleks to show.

Yeah I wasn't a fan of that either?

I'd just be onboard for Claudia Black. It's a shame throughout her career she's never been the lead because she'd kill at it.

These sorts if roles are disproportionately given to white men, so the context is letting actors who are not white men play them. That's really where the issue of fairness is in play.

Yeah I wasn't trying to imply you did. I've just had much uglier conversations elsewhere.

"You Only Move Twice" is basically my favourite Simpsons episode ever. There I said it.

The latter examples are hasty acknowledgements of the status quo. They could have ended it with a joke - in the alternate, Smithers shot Burns ending, all he gets is a pay-cut.