Well, no matter how competent we are, we all like to think that things would be much more efficient if other people stopped trying to contribute or have opinions and just let us get on with it.*

It gave me a crunchy boner.

Isn't that impossible?  They've said many times that The Time War is somehow 'locked', nobody can time travel into it.

@ClogginBoydCrowder:disqus Stewart has said numerous times that he's a comedy show, not a news show.

I suspect Mike's debt will prove to be an ongoing subplot.  I hope he gets some kind of resolution by the end, I quite like Mike.

Brandanaquitz really was the 'Jim' of that show, witness why he didn't really fit in.

I think one of the prequel's biggest problems is that they were the single-minded products of Lucas as sole writer and director, while the other films had a lot of input from other people.  (The other problem, of course, is the over-reliance on CGI and the sanitary air it creates, but does anybody not already know…

My 26 year old roommate heard 'Undone' for the first time two weeks ago and will not stop playing/listening to/singing it.

Now that would have made for a good spinoff.

To a guy who grew up poor and black in 1950s Philly I think it was quite hard for him to feel very invested in 'his' country.

@avclub-8eb12b45c6eb5b9675c0976c8ece470c:disqus Oh my god, you're a Marxist?  Can I blow you?

The problem is, 'make it work better' isn't a coherent political program, it's just a restatement of the problem.

OK, perhaps 'propaganda' is too much.  I don't think the show was created as part of a deliberate effort to push people in a Thatcherite direction, it was more that a group of Thatcherites decided to try to get some humour out of the problems they saw in the British government.  Luckily for us they were reasonably…

@avclub-62ae6d9e1a24836a391716549223464f:disqus Yes, it is a very traditional sitcom.

"Yeah, but wasn't the British government bureaucracy at the time
hopelessly bloated, unable to get anything to work at all and needing of
reform?"

In addition to my ideological problems (see above, not repeating), Yes Minister gets a bit repetitive.

Yes Minister is well-disguised Tory propaganda.  It basically pushes the pre-Thatcher neoliberal view of the bureaucracy as unaccountable, pointless, anti-democratic and self-perpetuating.  Wouldn't it be great if some brave politician, preferably with a handbag, came along and tore that all away, just leaving people…

My first album, purchases on cassette, was REM's 'Automatic for the People'.

I've always felt The Unforgettable Fire was a highly overrated U2 album.

Rattle and Hum is definitely the weakest in that quadrology, but come on, look at the competition.