Or they could have done something dramatically interesting, and have Klaus's actions ACCIDENTALLY lead to her death by leaving her vulnerable for another character to kill her (a sort-of mirroring of what Rebecca did to Klaus, in that he starts it then finds that things are no longer in his control).

Perhaps because she doesn't want to get typecast, or because she's got a film lead?

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'Proto'-goth? Goth peaked in the 80s - I was there (and so were most of the seminal goth bands, eg the Cure, Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, etc). This film didn't come out until the 2nd half of the 90s. Joy Division was proto-goth in the late 70s.

Nah, I'd be pissed off at the disrespect for my liberties, and I'm straight. Conversely, there's plenty of women who are into light bondage/handcuffs or who make similar joking comments when a really hot guy is the tv assailant AND it's shot in a non-threatening suggestive-but-unseen manner. It doesn't really apply to…

Nah, I used to be slavishlu genre-focused in my youth, but as you get older you really do stop caring so much about what 'kind' of music something is. "I like all kinds of music" =/= "I like all music" - i.e. I can like music from all genres and yet still think that 90% of everything is crap.

Where does the 'one man' thing come from. It's pretty clear that the dead sheriff was responsible for the earliest of the murders, and that his kids have become a bunch of inbred paedophillic killers (2 of them, brother and sister, found by Marty and Rust at the end, the brother being responsible for the open cases).

Come to think of it, a companion who is willing not only to stand up to, but to conveniently backstab the doctor (and spent his early time with the doctor on a plot to assassinate him - back when the doctor was the ultra-nice Peter Davidson) could have made that a lot more interesting.

They're a few serials apart, but if we can count Turlough as Adric's belated replacement, that would be a solid contest against Mel->Ace for greatest leap up in companion quality.

It's not that bad - certainly not dud material. The characterisation is at the level you'd expect from one of the standard 'Stargate / Eureka / Warehouse13' fare, rather than a serious sci-fi by the creator/show-runner of Battlestar Galactica. But the plot is interesting enough, and presented in an intelligent,…

Whilst I mostly like your reviews on Helix, Sonia, they have a tendency each week to cite as mysterious/unanswered or withheld information, matters that are either said straight up, or are obvious implications, in the script.

I don't think Wu has to react the same way as Hank, and be brought into the fold or require a massive character change to explain. Wu was ALREADY a conspiracy nut whose constantly suggesting occult explanations for the Wesen evidence that Nick and Hank find. He's the guy that every-single-episode is telling Nick about…

The Paris Hilton of Middle Earth? I know Liv Tyler got a headstart through who her father is, but it's still a little harsh, don't you think?

Awww…and all the Hobbits as caddies! So cute…and so racist…and so cute!

I'd like to go to Sweden. A friend of mine keeps trying to convince me it's a real country and that we worked there for a few months about 8 years back, but that's just silly. Even the casting doesn't make sense - a nation where all the women are blue-eyed with near-perfect complexions, fit and the guys are tall, also…

The audience has less grounds to make these kind of complaints with TD though:
- the show has a meta-awareness of its own genre, and actively plays upon the expectations and traditions of that genre. The story of the detective who gets most of the way, but never quite cracks the full mystery, with the story reaching…

So they've got Sebastian Roche back on their casting list. I'm presuming it won't be long before someone resurrects Michaelson Snr in the 'present' timeline and Roche returns to the show as a recurring 'big bad' for a season or two.

In fairness to Shaw showing up, it would be even weirder to have yet ANOTHER absurdly-good-shot-and-martial-arts-one-person-army show up. So far we've had Reese, Kara, their boss (okay, he doesn't do anything quite so one-man-army as the others, but I'm giving him credit for going out in style when he suicide-bombs…

It occurred to me that we'd have a much better show if they killed off Fitz, but retained the actor and had him rock up as his character from The Fades the following week. Not only could he fit the Marvel universe, but we'd actually have a well developed character that utilises the actor's abilities.

There actually was a time - relatively recently, at that - when companies would rubber stamp any request for a product placement, on the basis that it saves them PAYING for a product placement, and nobody had taken into account the possibility that a product placement might not be 'good' publicity.