I have a friend that I indulge in quality TV marathons with. When we got to midnight with five more episodes of season 5 we decided to stay up and finish it off since it was just so darn gripping. We went to bed at 5AM a little shell-shocked that night.

"Guns, guns, guns"

Marie has always been pretty on the ball, she's just got a really bad way of getting her point across.

We've also got the glorious return of the man bag.

@ Soylent Green - I had the same feeling about Jack and President Useless' speech. She tried to justify herself far too much, and made it obvious that she was compromised, whereas she should have just gone down the "I'm the Predisent and my word is final" route. Makes me really miss the old Palmer gravitas, and seeing…

So true. At least we can see this season out with the requisite amount of snark it deserves.

I also liked season 3's ending. Good display of what the job would actually do to you. As awful as season 6 was, the ending for that was quite similar - Jack losing and damaging his loved ones through his actions just walks to a cliff and stares into the void.

I commented on this above - I've heard it's going to cover a 24-hour day in the 2-hour runtime.

The word on the cinematic street is that the movie will follow the course of 24 hours within 2 hours. So, an action (Jacktion) movie, then.

"Just briefly there was that old 24 magic back again that we love so much." So true - just a shame that it was so fleeting, and on the 14th episode. If this situation had been going down on the 4th episode I would be genuinely looking forward to the next episode.

Yeah, I was hoping he was faking it too. At this point, the season 8 in my head is way more badass and interesting than the one unfolding on my screen. For example: If Ethan DID have a heart attack, then he should have come back as a zombie.

There was a line last season about something happening to Martha that Aaron didn't want to talk about:

I find that depressingly easy to believe.

I visited Aberdeen once to have a little break - visit a friend, cheer myself up a bit. after a couple of days of grey skies, grey houses, grey sea, grey roads and grey people I left more depressed than when I arrived.

I'm trying to get the word 'drull' into common parlance to describe one of Glasgow's miserable weather states: you know when it's daytime, but the sky is completely covered with white clouds, making the light flat and shadows non-existant? That's drull (combination of bright and dull).

Haha - ya rocket!

Agh - I hate the Scotch/Scottish thing too!

I can't wait to visit Stereo again. Think I'll walk to it through Kelvingrove, then I'll have an evening in the Butterfly and Pig, and dance the rest of it away in The Buff. Next morning? Either Tchai-Ovna or Jaconelli's, if I'm up for the walk.

For your collective information…
…"Ned" stands for "Non-Educated Delinquent". The urban legend is that this was the call sign Strathclyde Police used for troublesome youth. Much as I would love to believe it, I'm pretty sure it's a backronym. Feel free to prove me otherwise.

All the Glaswegians say…
…get tae fuck (in the nicest way possible - it's part of our 'aggressive friendliness' culture).