I read somewhere else that Clara has been shown/filmed framed in a circle in shots in all the episodes she's been in so far, and the commenter was wondering if this was perhaps symbolic.  What do y'all reckon?

Clara's dimples.  That is all.

But … but… the skirt wasn't too tight, it was too short.  He clearly wasn't looking closely enough.

Ooh, not heard about that - when I hear him on Radio 4 I can't quite decide if he's funny or not.

Rude.

*cough* National Theatre* cough *proper name*

I liked his tongue.  It should have got a credit all of its own.

Random Youtubing for FF brings up her version of PiL's 'Rise'.  Like, what?????  In what universe does this even start to make sense?  And yet, it's so wrong, it's right ….

Smokin'!

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*Channels Fenella Fielding and her husky voice* "Oh, Oddbod!"

What no mention of Gatiss's gleeful ripping off of the whole people-turned-into-mannequins-in-a-vat-of-goop thing from Carry on Screaming (in itself, a spoof of Hammer Horrors, Gattis's faves). And there's a character in Carry On Screaming called Dr Watt/What in homage to Dr Who, and Jon Pertwee has a small part in…

Plus it's 'Hen night', not 'Hen's night'.

If they'd gone with Idris Elba, Paterson Joseph and Adrian Lester I'd have been as happy as a pig in shit. Sadly, they went for three guys who couldn't act.

Shouldn't that be 'toemaytoe/toemartoe'?

Pedant Alert: it's "I'm Cram, I'm Ovett" (Steve Cram and Steve Ovett, British Olympic middle distance medallists)

They're talking about UK punk, and a lot of the influences for that were UK ones - Alice Cooper was regarded as a joke artist here in the UK, not someone punks aspired to emulate. Ditto the Monkees. If Jean-Jacques Burnel of the Stranglers says "I often say to journalists there is a bridge between the old times and…

He was an actor first, then a novelty pop singer.  He's returned to the day job in Game of Thrones, and to describe him just as a pop singer isn't really fair.  He did masses of acting jobs before, and after Soldier Soldier, but that gave him his big break.

You really need to get out more.

Beijing was soulless, robotic, an ode to the state.  Boyle's ceremony was chaotic, eccentric and celebrated the individual.  Beijing's was all about artifice - a faked little photogenic girl lip synching and CGI fireworks; Boyle's was all about keeping it real.  Some things went wrong but it didn't matter.