Defence is a funny one - it's a supposedly senior department, but it's also a graveyard of careers. Very few ministers go on from Defence to greater things, it's nearly always the high-point of their career.

I think you're glossing over the pretty obvious 'female' aspect of having an erect penis inserted into one or more of your bodily orifices.

The galaxy is clearly two-dimensional in Star Trek land. See also: why ships always meet each other with their local 'up' direction the same.

The galaxy is clearly two-dimensional in Star Trek land. See also: why ships always meet each other with their local 'up' direction the same.

Long discussion about TV series giving a few good series and then being watched to the end even as they descend into shit - self-aware or oblivious?

Long discussion about TV series giving a few good series and then being watched to the end even as they descend into shit - self-aware or oblivious?

So which twist is it - is the boy in the past the dad in the present, or the monster?

Only if they honour the original series by having at least 10 minutes of Adama drinking and crying alone in every preceding episode. It would be wrong to cheapen an important charcter moment by doing otherwise. 

You could argue that the absence of separate articles is an attempt to replicate the absence of same in Latin. If you were a ponce.

It's Ed who had the Nazi sympathies

On an unrelated note, lemonparty is now old enough that, most likely, the guys in it are dead. Somehow I never expected the internet to endure for so long.

In the context of a story set in WWII, 'I'm sad my husband/father is dead' isn't really enough justification for a magic 'everybody lives'.

The still at the top of this article looks like a scene from Dollhouse: 1950s Edition

He's nowhere near as clever as he (acts like) he thinks he is, and comes across as insufferably smug. I still enjoy QI and the like, but am always distracted by the urge to punch him in the face.

I suspect you may be right and I'm mixing up my shapeshifters with some other franchise. Sorry.

More prosaically, given that the shapeshifters here copy the original's memories…

Thank god someone came up with a plausible explanation. It's so lame to just rely on 'a wizard did it'.

Yes, but they were more translators than authors. The translation was obviously heavily influenced by their own theology and the politics of the time, but they could only tweak the existing texts they were working from. There's a big gap between their work and the sort of thing Shakespeare did with rewriting existing…

I strongly disagree. It supports the suggestion that, when trying to reach the mass-market on a broadcast network, once you reach a certain level of quality any improvements don't necessarily correlate to higher ratings. But there is most definitely a level of quality below which a show is dead and buried.

Eh, not really - E4 is on Freeview. It's not really any different to BBC2.