Oh, you can count on that. I have bad taste in everything.

Really? Interesting, I'll have to track that down…

I agree, although there's a certain amount of pleasure to be derived from going off on a rant about something you're only vaguely acquainted with, and seeing how convincingly you can manage it.

Totally. (Although I have to admit I spent a few seconds there thinking "Who's Trevor Bartlett?")

I'm okay with that. Bartlet knew how to get things done.

I always thought it was curious that ST:TNG went with "tea, Earl Grey, hot", because Earl Grey is a disgusting perfumed garbage tea. So you can only assume that a) the scriptwriter who came up with that line wasn't British, or b) Patrick Stewart doesn't drink tea, or else he surely would have had something to say…

I endorse this idea, sort of - I'd love to see it, but only if it was handled by a production company that understood the source material, and knew what the hell they were doing. The likelihood that it would instead be screwed up beyond all recognition is extremely high.

Yes, exactly. Capaldi is easily my favourite Doctor since the show started, but I do wonder if he and Moffat are good for each other.

Ha! Fair enough.

You do what you want, mate - I didn't suggest anyone should be outraged. I just don't understand why everyone loves it as much as they do when, as I say, it feels (to me) completely self-indulgent.

On paper, maybe, but I'd argue there's actually quite a lot of difference between (if one is being uncharitable) "recorder-playing old weirdo" and "guitar-shredding rock god".

I agree, though to be fair, I suppose I don't mind being pandered to by Doctor Who when it doesn't feel like pandering. A guitar-playing Doctor, though, just feels wrong to me - like a Poochie-level cynical marketing stunt, or something.

Well, I don't think he does, though I agree that if Smith or Tennant had done it, it would have been even more annoying than it already is.

I agree about the guitar, although that seems to be the minority opinion around here, though I'm not sure why: a guitar-playing Doctor Who is total fanservice, and yet for some reason everyone seems to enjoy being pandered to.

That's "white American fuckhole Rupert Murdoch", if you don't mind: he became an American citizen in the 1980s in order to close a business deal. As this was before dual citizenship was permissible, it meant he had to renounce his Australian citizenship - and as far as I know, he's never bothered to take it up again.…

Thirding Angels with Dirty Faces. "ROCKY DIES YELLOW - KILLER COWARD AT END!"

A proper Saleeby comment would have More Random capital Letters.

Same here - not a horror fan, but that was an good interview. This is the kind of thing I come here for, not restaurant reviews (what's the "A.V." connection there, exactly?).

She's a 14-year veteran of a top-rating TV show, so if she really did want the tattoo gone, you'd have to assume the producers would OK it - make it a military edict or something.

Certainly not as good as the first movie, or even that good as a whole, but it's quite fascinating in parts - an interesting failure, perhaps. Rabin gave it a pretty favorable write-up at the Dissolve last year: http://bit.ly/1VelYe9