I vaguely remember seeing it on TV out here in Australia when I was a kid - just the kind of British import we loved, of course.

If you really want to be pedantic, you could do what golden-age publisher Hugo Gernsback did, and refer to the genre only as "scientifiction". It's due for a hipster revival any day now.

"Both Conan and Andy chatted me up for a bit and were lovely." Okay… does this mean something different in the U.S. to what it does in Australia / the U.K.?

Well, I guess you won't be wanting to hear the story behind my cheetah-riding-an-atomic-bomb tattoo… long story short, I got it to honor my great-uncle, a cheetah-worshipping Kalahari tribesman who died at Hiroshima.

What!? They crucified HORSES??! What kind of sick movie is this???

Is this movie still well-regarded by film buffs? I remember having to watch it for a film studies class about 25 years ago, and nobody liked it at all.

"If you look at the washed-up Lego, it looks perfect, like it's just come out of the box. Plastic in the sea is not going to just decompose and go away."

Riley came back to Sunnydale, due to popular demand.

Well, I always found Matt Smith extremely annoying as the Doctor, so this is a good start.

Yeah, that was about as worthless as I'd expected.

They're not very old, apparently - the first one was only published in 1980, according to Wikipedia. (Well, that's not very old to me at least.)

You have to wait a hell of a long time for the Marvin Gaye reference to pay off, though - pretty much the end of the movie. But yes, agreed - a great album.

…. aaaand like clockwork, here's Lovecraft, who just has to let us know just how much he doesn't like some Australian thing. Give it a rest, mate; we fucking well know how it goes by now.

So, this was my first episode of Sherlock. Thoughts: it was ok, I suppose, but: why was it set in London, and not New York? Also, why is Holmes being played as a “high-functioning sociopath,” and not a mumbling, mentally defective sociopath, as per Jonny Lee Miller’s version? And finally - Watson is a man? What the…