I'll watch it if they include a character based on Frank Cho, who started writing/drawing the awesome Liberty Meadows strip in college -and who turned down newspaper syndication in favour of self-publication at Image because he is fucking baller.

Thanks for the enthusiastic recommendations. I read Consider Phlebas a long time ago and enjoyed it ; maybe it's time to re-acCulturate myself…
The othet two sound very interesting as well : one of the things I enjoyed about Weber's stuff is how he tries to think through the various different political and social…

Is the deer head ("haid", in the vernacular of them there parts) germane to the plot, or mere corroborative detail to add verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative?

"two storylines are finally merging together…"

…Whose name is something like, "Brar", if I remember correctly. There are three brothers and the youngest is brutally murdered to get the plot started, I think. It's been a million years since I watched it.

For about the last year I've been listening to the Honor Harrington series when I go out running, and I'm now on the last third of Cauldren of Ghosts, the final part of the spin off trilogy featuring other characters doing other (related) stuff within the Honorverse. Apart from the young adult stories -and dependant…

Interesting how quickly Dodd's bravado evaporates when he's the one tied up and helpless. Remember his contempt for the prisoner he was interrogating in part one?
He cut that guy's ear off. Now Peggy pokes him in the shoulder a little bit and he's all weepy. I always knew he was a pussy deep down.

"…track like serial killers them"

I just tipped out a libation for Charlie. Now I have a damp patch on my carpet.

Holmes and Bond are related - to Jack the Ripper, Fitzwilliam Darcy , Tarzan and Doc Savage among others, if Philip Jose Farmer is to be believed.

"…reign it in"

"Mot" as in Mott the Hoople?

"…series back into the fantastic world of evil organizations trying to
open alien portals to advance their plot for world domination…"

The reviwer's problem is to see the show as a standard episodic procedural, with a big bad storyline giving it a unifying spine. This is more like a novel, but' y'know, in t.v. format. When Marlowe goes looking for The Little Sister, he doesn't keep getting sidetracked by other cases; everything is linked to what he's…

I know; I thought Thunderbolt Ross was a one-note douchebag, but Lane makes him look nuanced.

I just kind .. mumble over it in my head, like, Ben*mblah* I do the same with Jim Cav*mblah*
Who needs to work that hard?

Also, all these women are definitely complex within the constraints of their roles. Watch Age of Ultron, or Winter Soldier: Natasha has real issues with who she is and what she's done.She's a lot more controlled than Jessica because she's been trained to be - just like Gamorra. These women are soldiers. Jessica is an…

And Wessex hasn't been an extant… land area since , what? The time of the Vikings? Unless you count the fiction of Thomas Hardy a contemporary of Conan Doyle's and … ohh, I seee what you did there.

Of course I can. I'm a horrible, narrow minded bigot. Your feeble logic means nothing to my obduracy.

I'm a seventies kid. None of this crap means anything to me, which makes me feel resentful, marginalised and old. Just as it's supposed to. You really should be getting off my lawn now, dammit.