I had one of those forgettably unpleasant experiences with Tom Baker if he wasn't Tom Baker. He was obtuse and short-tempered and had a look of mild madness in his eyes.

I had one of those forgettably unpleasant experiences with Tom Baker if he wasn't Tom Baker. He was obtuse and short-tempered and had a look of mild madness in his eyes.

>> Selling and making drugs isn't necessarily "immoral", just "illegal".  Maybe there's an argument that selling an addictive product that destroys other people's lives is wrong

>> Selling and making drugs isn't necessarily "immoral", just "illegal".  Maybe there's an argument that selling an addictive product that destroys other people's lives is wrong

As true as that first bit may be, the drama in Survivor was always derived from people bringing no intellectual rigour to comprehending the situation they're in, not because they were monsters previously unseen in Western civilisation. As muddied as the program made the waters, it's a competition all the players have…

As true as that first bit may be, the drama in Survivor was always derived from people bringing no intellectual rigour to comprehending the situation they're in, not because they were monsters previously unseen in Western civilisation. As muddied as the program made the waters, it's a competition all the players have…

Miller is such a perfect fit for this inventory that I thought his consonance might overcome his obscurity; rock on, sir, for mentioning him. (No song title, ever, is better than "720 Times Happier Than The Unjust Man")

Miller is such a perfect fit for this inventory that I thought his consonance might overcome his obscurity; rock on, sir, for mentioning him. (No song title, ever, is better than "720 Times Happier Than The Unjust Man")

It's better than Alien Vs. Predator but not Alien: Resurrection.

It's better than Alien Vs. Predator but not Alien: Resurrection.

Dwarfpheus, I think your analysis of that failing in Mad Men is spot-on and well articulated; I like it, particularly for the mechanics of how it spins its stories, but it's a show that simultaneously deconstructs and is seduced by the same things and that makes it hard to take very seriously.

Dwarfpheus, I think your analysis of that failing in Mad Men is spot-on and well articulated; I like it, particularly for the mechanics of how it spins its stories, but it's a show that simultaneously deconstructs and is seduced by the same things and that makes it hard to take very seriously.

Áras is the Irish for 'residence'

Aliquando, 'delightful' was exactly the word that came to mind after the last of the questions; it might have made Kim's win (even) more obvious but I don't care - that was my favourite jury ever.

C'mon man, when, couched among rhetoric of a particular slant, someone makes a pejorative, generalised assumption about the motives of people who argue contrary to that slant, I don't think it's very credible that that assumption was born from a considered pursuit of the truth.

Why guess that people who don't like an aspect of his work don't like it because they prefer something lesser? I think Whedon has a gift for visuals when that's where he wants his emphasis to lie but that's not where his emphasis lay in the Avengers. Or rather, that's where his emphasis lay in the Avenger along with…

I'm not happy about it but I'm with you too. Obviously, the spectre of 'The Thick Of It' hangs heavy over 'Veep' but it's 'The Thick of It' level of sophistication that's missing, not just some nominal parts of it. 'The Thick of It', in its third season, had episodes where it managed to have its plot points,…

I cannot remember for the life me who Dan is. And I can name the players in order of elimination for Cook Islands.

I think Kim has been playing an all-time-great game but it's somewhat predicated on not letting anyone know she's, strategically, stone cold. The tenor of her allegiances, which she has had from every player in the game since Jonas was dispatched, comes from balancing displays of affection with a distant steeliness…

I thought it was impersonal in that recurrent aspects of Whedon's work seemed to be instilled, then strangled here and in that things he's shown himself to be a deft hand at previously were, in this, poorly done.