Suck it, Thommo!

'1/2th'? Halfth?

Stephen Thompson used to be a maths teacher at my old school, Tiffin Boys, in Kingston-upon-Thames. True story.

That's a good point - maybe they lit the scenes well for shooting then turned down the brightness in post-production?

'Yes, that's a threat.'

I quite liked No Ordinary Family! You had Chiklis fighting crime with a Bluetooth earpiece in, it was great. It was kinda confusing seeing him in a police precinct and not breaking heads, though.

I didn't get any notifications, ever again, for this?

Peter Capaldi IS James Bond in:

This'd. This record is 1 hour 42 minutes long, for crying out loud, and 8 of its 21 (!) songs are over five minutes. It's no Mellon Collie, put it that way (but arguably neither was Mellon Collie).

It works, in that you can infer the meaning from context, but it would be clearer if phrased the other way around. I just can't enjoy my torture porn if I'm thinking about copyediting.

'Torture porn… shows the audience absolutely everything, and bears the same relationship to actual horror as romantic comedy does to porn.'

HAZMAT SPANX

Maybe the town's apparently huge supply of vervain grows on the banks, and that's why Damon can't jump in. And the safe that Stefan is in has vervain filters, which is why it isn't watertight like safes normally are. Also, the safe is made of silver and the hinges are lubricated with werewolf venom. It's shut with…

Tetsuoooooo!

What's amazing about the English national character is how quickly tragedy turns to uncomfortable humour.

I got serious Aliens: Special Edition vibes from the M60 business - the thing Walt built was basically a sentry gun. I suspected that he was gonna try to meet the white supremacists out into the desert and then blow them away by remote, or maybe even use Lydia as a hostage. It seemed clear that Walt never intended to…

Badger and Skinny Pete

The song Tetsuo:

It's a real time capsule. A few tracks are great, but the rest takes me back to being an awkward teenager for whom indie-singer-plus-beats is the height of avant-garde. I really want to slap that guy sometimes.

Teaming up with the Hilton Group to provide overpriced, unbalanced rooms: Suites by Dre