See also: Scottish Vincent Van Gogh.

RP = Roman Pronunciation.

The book is actually "The Story of Ferdinand".
This adaptation makes me uneasy. It lacks the simplicity and beauty of the original.

I haven't seen any spoilers about next week, so it was the hubris that made me expect the Doctor to fail.

He didn't imprison her for 1000 years yet. I expect that he'll let her out soon.

That just confirms that an incarnation of the Doctor looked like McGann. Perhaps the TV movie was a (faulty) simulation.

My mother went to see Borat in the theater. I'm still not sure how that happened. She did not like it.

My favorite Reagan fact is that he turned to supporting nuclear disarmament because he really liked the ABC miniseries The Day After (about nuclear war). He didn't tell anyone, but wrote this in his diary. Meanwhile, conservatives were so enraged that they pressured ABC into counterprogramming with Amerika (about a…

Passive stabbing.

The word "sucks" appears frequently in descriptions of both?

Negative 30 minutes.

It felt like inconsistent writing to me. Charlie is very alien and doesn't understand human customs and emotions, but he arbitrarily asks a boy to the Prom, so me must be gay – in fact he's totally in love!

She wasn't actually his girlfriend. He just had a crush on her.
The song is basically about the hypocrisy of the madonna/whore duality. The narrator thinks that his crush was pure and innocent and is horrified (horrified!) by this loss of innocence, but then he just has to buy the magazine and fantasizes about a sleazy…

When I saw Bladerunner in my early teens, that scene drove me up the wall.

At least in Blow Up there is a central ambiguity to whether he really saw a body in the photograph.

Many Doctor Who stories are undermined by not really making sense on close examination. Some stories – such as The Mind Robber, Warriors' Gate, Midnight, and The Girl Who Waited – escape this problem by effectively taking place in a closed universe that is answerable only to its internal logic. As soon as I realized…

That was a perfectly normal-sized cat!

I say, old thing, that can't be right!

A decade ago, I was surprised at how defensively my housemate from Birmingham reacted when I asked him a question about Ireland.

I've never seen that done to "someone". I get the logic, but it's not a French word.