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"Meat tastes awesome" is a pretty good defence.

If you look at the dates each episode review was posted, you'll see that every now and then there is a gap of two or three weeks in the middle of a season. No-one seems to have foreshadowed or explained this one, so it's probably not atypical, so LtV will probably be reviewed either this Sunday or the one after it.

Dead Set was very much like a (specific type of) film. Artsy, nihilistic and without much narrative. In a TV series, there needs to be more hope.

Going Round With A Leaden Spoon?

I don't agree that she was a weapon. The mental self-defence served no narrative purpose except to protect her.

Surely your gripe would be with the decision to name a character Alonso rather than the casting of Russell Tovey? Unless Russell Tovey has previously played a character named Alonso?

Disagree. Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys - both featured in CoE, the former rather heavily of course.

I just find that funny.

I was a little put off by just how quickly he regenerated (i.e. 1 second vs. 9 & 10's 10 or so). I'm fine with change but it would have been nice for him to have lampshaded it immediately prior e.g. 'I need to get this one done quickly.'

I disagree. I say so rather than downvoting you because I'd consider the latter kind of rude, since you're just expressing an opinion and not being a douche.

Darwin? What the Dickens?

The episode has spring snakes inside, but the suckers will think it's beer nuts!

It's also irritating that an episode with such an intriguingly romantic title (romantic in the 'new and mysterious ways of thinking about the universe' sense) should be so sub-par.

So are you saying it's never gonna register with them?

'In all my travels I never met anyone who wasn't important.' KtVS included.

I'd flip the two, but those 2 episodes are the only two from Davies's tenure I disdain in any way.

'You'd better be sick or a zombie in there, I shit you not! Goddamnit, Patrick, you're puttin' me behind!'

It does seem with TWD as though the show is more about what happens than who it happens to. That's fine for a while, but it doesn't suit long-running serialised drama. If as an audience you check in and out once a week, you want to feel like the characters are living rather than just surviving. That's true of some of…

There's a difference between stuff the audience finds funny and stuff the characters found funny. If the characters don't find stuff funny, eventually the show becomes more dark than an escapist audience can handle/find realistic.