Yeah, not meta. Not that anyone's criticizing Todd, I don't think, but it'd be a shame if someone rented it expecting anything other than a wholeheartedly entertaining private eye drama

Good article about a great show.

FF94: used to have an old mono recording by John Williams, & you've reminded me to look it up…

yeah, he never even intended to be a novelist, and it really shows.

It sort of counts as nazgul back-story, but along with Bombadil it also seems like a part of his attempt at an English-style mythology, before everything gets all continent-sized.

You mean: "…I'd like to test that theory"

I remember the sinking feeling when it became clear that the Willow 'power corrupts' plot was being reduced to a 'magic=addiction' thing instead.

Kony & A A Gill?

It's "sad stories about Crimes of Passion" week at the AV Club.

What a career. And that voice! - she did V.I. Warshawski on the radio in the UK, and it was like you could hear her legs..

Oh for fuck's sake

damn right

I have a vague memory that the fan was a young kid who had seen it dozens of times, and Guinness was genuinely appalled

Het.

Cushion rant!

It's also a genuinely good sci-fi story, with that looping, cunningly-tied-up plot…

Dunno which is better, exactly, but I've go to say Davies had fannish habits which he should have left behind when he was actually on the inside - having The (a) Doctor go off with Rose was basically slash fiction of his own show.

Yeah, no-one I knew could really believe they'd done that… I was sitting there thinking "fuck… when's the Giant Rat of Sumatra going to turn up?". Written by some guy called Steve Thompson not Moffatt, but I still want Moffatt & Gatiss to explain what the fuck was going on

The most enjoyable bit of Phantom Menace for me was when she turned up as a pilot. The Pinewood Effect at work!

Brainlock: …and that explains the changes to the old characters & stuff. In a way it's nice to know that Kring had the right idea, even if he wasn't allowed to carry it out. Thanks for knowing stuff on behalf of others…