I completely agree. I wish the new series would stop talking about what it means to be the Doctor and let him just get on with being it already. I'd also point out how much better the darkness in the 7th Doctor's era was handled than in the preceding one. The 6th Doctor's run was nothing if not dark, but it was a…

For all the ups and downs Doctor Who went through over the years, it would've been so easy for it to have ended on an ignominious note. I'm glad we got that lovely monologue capping an interesting serial instead.

Though those episodes have their ardent defenders, I more often hear the view that the 7th Doctor and Andrew Cartmel didn't really hit their stride until season 25. How do you feel about Curse of Fenric or Remembrance of the Daleks?

I thought the daily review model was fantastic. I actually watched one a day with the reviews and it was the perfect balance in providing the heady thrill of binge watching while still giving time for episodes to ruminate and stay distinct in the memory.

I stand by my assessment.

Revenge is never as satisfying when the target is so pathetic that a broom-handle sodomizing only makes their life slightly worse.

"Literally" has never been used as a synonym of "figuratively." It is used as an intensifier. That is part of the natural evolution of language, as is a changing sense of "reticent." Your entire attitude toward language is wrongheaded and you should really look into some basic linguistics.

I had quite a moment watching THX-1138. The guard started beating the inmate and I was suddenly struck with this intense feeling of familiarity. So Trent wasn't just playing basketball.

I agree generally that the first generation of 3D was awful, but I think people forget that the character polygons in FFVII looked shitty even at the time. It was a conscious decision to focus on the backgrounds and the character movements, since they hadn't mastered 3D graphics well enough at the time to give us the…

You're right but, frankly, I found the catsuit sexier. Also, I may come off like a child who's wandered in during the middle of a movie, but was that video supposed to be for kids?

Pedant

I'm glad they did that. Usually they're too spineless to call anyone out and just let them roll through the express line with as many items as they want. Then I'm stuck waiting behind someone with a full cart. 20 items or less means 20 items or less dammit!

I'm all for long run-times and extended ballads, but Hey Jude is four minutes of verse/chorus and four minutes of na-na-na. The na-na-na outro is literally the entire second half of the song. That's too much!

That's a good point. It could go a lot of ways, but a Trek show with a storytelling style more akin to, say, Game of Thrones, could be pretty sweet. Of course any hint of Rodenberry's original vision of a future Utopia powered by humanist ideals is going to be right out the window (fine with me, I'm a DS9 guy).

DS9 gave us the Worf we all wanted to see. TNG told us repeatedly that Worf was badass, yet we only ever saw him get his ass kicked. His other big job was being wrong so Picard or Riker could be right. DS9 Worf is actually the badass we'd been hearing about. I do take your point about him not really being suited to…

I think it mostly derives from their black clothing.

I attempted to make an argument against colorblind casting here, and got a pretty nasty response (which you can still see below). I'm just going to leave a link to an article that makes the case better than I could.

I don't know how much credit I can really give Cersei for getting the better of Ned Stark. She was on her home turf while he was way out of his element, but more importantly it suited Littlefinger to back her at that time. And let's not forget that Sansa unthinkingly revealed all Ned' plans to her. She played the…

Also the notion that there was no war in the Americas until white people showed up is pretty strange.

It's such a shame the Guardians never really went anywhere good (The Black Guardian Trilogy has its moments, but I consider the presentation of the Guardians to be severely botched) because that White Guardian intro scene in the Ribos Operation is perfect: it conveys ultimate power through understatement, which is the…