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Don't ask me to quote chapter and verse but I've read serious historical treatments of his death which depicted it as unusually long and drawn out. He wasn't just poisoned the end; his assassination went on and on.

I think their actions are scary - the underlying thinking tends to be pretty banal.

I'm so disappointed in Duchovny and Anderson's performances. I don't think they're bad performances; I don't think they're unjustifiably-different-from-their-previous-performances performances. But they misunderstand their earlier performances: there's a staginess, a glibness to them that runs counter to the…

The weird thing is Gellar was the most able performer on that show playing the character least weighed-down/facilitating-of actorly mannerisms - she should have been able to make it work.

Aren't all the seasons a little shaky? If the show can overcome that scene where Ned Stark 'pieces together' Joffrey's true parentage, it can overcome any amount of self-generated nonsense.

I think it's intentionally obtuse too; I just don't think it meant to be as obtuse as it was and that was a function of the restraints Carruth was under making it.

Y'know, I've often thought that Primer gets a lot of praise for choices that make it structurally identical to a bad movie. But having read about the way its tiny budget affected Carruth storytelling, having seen Upstream Colour and having read the screenplay for A Topiary, I wonder if that thought is kind of an…

Wouldn't Daenerys be Henry Tudor?

Seriously, though, 'Gunlove' is one of the greatest short stories ever written.

I don't follow: should you have been treated better than the other guy because you wore a suit and he didn't or did you get a steeper penalty than incarceration for a lesser offence?

I really liked Kelley so it pains me to say: she played a good scrappy game but she has no flair.

Why were they afraid of the Hybrid all of a sudden? The prophecy was from whenever ago and there didn't seem to be a precipitating event for why they were suddenly anxious about it.

But that they thought amnesia was the way to ameliorate that is just so… doofy.

Clara's less mortal than you or I. She's alive and her intention is to defer her death despite her continued existence being the kind of thing that has collapsed the universe twice over in previous Doctor Who stories. This was such an awful story-telling decision, compounded by her three previous,…

I had to turn on the subtitles. I don't understand how this isn't something being remedied.

The first six seconds of the Smith's version is one of my favourite musical moments ever but Kirsty MacColl is one of my favuorite singers ever so picking a favourite version is a high quality problem to have.

He's going to go back in time visiting her for all/most of the stories from earlier in the season. That's why the cloister bell is going bananas when they're simply hanging out. I mean, the story won't make sense if you try to diagram it but when do Moffat's timey-wimey season-long arcs ever?

I really loved how they parted at the end of last season. Two liars lying.