Ripper Street seems an odd choice. Not that I didn't like it, but period procedurals are so dime-a-dozen that I'm surprised it would get a last-minute reprieve. The shows that this article listed, regardless of their actual quality, arguably had unique premises which were worth saving. But if you're wanting a fix…

If you want to blame executive meddling, then the push to reveal Laura Palmer's killer mid-way through Season 2 was by far the fatal blow - not just in terms of popularity, but also in quality. I wouldn't have minded Twin Peaks short run if it hadn't taken such a critical nosedive after that.

Twin Peaks is one of my favourite series of all time, but considering it barely maintained its quality over the course of two seasons, I really don't understand why people want more of it - much less a quarter of a century down the line, when everyone involved is far from the height of their powers.

Anastasia is abominable history - Rasputin unleashed the Bolsheviks! - but I still love the film. The songs are good if old-fashioned, it's lovely to look at and even Meg Ryan manages not to grate.

By every account I've read, the surge was absolutely worthwhile in the long-run while being bloodier in the short-run. If the US hadn't funnelled forces into Afghanistan in 2007, all of their (admittedly minor) achievements would have been undone. If it wasn't for Hamid Karzai choosing to worst possible time to…

The Allies definitely did not dig in their heels. The Germans did, because when the trench system was established they were already holding onto Belgium and north-eastern France while making major gains in Russia. To win, all Germany had to do was wait. But the Allies were compelled to liberate occupied territory…

In fairness, you can acknowledge that the First World War was horrific and a colossal waste of life while still contending that it was necessary. Ironically enough, Western Europe - who fought to the end - would have been least worst affected, but the Kaiserreich plan for the East was only a few shades south of…

Haven't you people seen I, Claudius?

A lot of its detractors seemed to dismiss the idea that sexual addiction is an issue, or why they should empathise with the plight of a privileged white male, which is…problematic, to say the least.

I wish I had a window into an alternate universe where The Counselor received near-unanimous critical praise, just so I could read the AV Club laying into the film for being a pretentious artifice devoid of insight. Rarely has this site so cynically championed a film (that they gave a meagre B to, no less) just to…

The phenomenon of the "human-flesh search" - vigilantes tracing alleged wrongdoers through the Internet, releasing their details and calling on others to abuse them - just goes to show how evolving technology has killed anonymity.

Just because you don't like the responses doesn't mean you aren't getting them.

"The major problem with nuclear power is waste disposal", said the man who didn't understand the long-term problem of disposing nuclear waste.

Yeah, hashing out Donald Rumsfeld on the AV Club is about as brave and revelatory as calling Barack Obama a socialist on talk radio.

If the Pacific Ocean was being irradiated, it would take much more than a few years after Fukushima for the effects to become apparent. 400 tons a day might sound like a lot, but compared to the 714 million cubic kilometres of water that compose the Pacific, it's a pinprick.

I never described what happened, and didn't discount anything. Chernobyl was a horrific tragedy. But the way it has been turned into a cudgel to crudely beat down any discussion of nuclear power by appealing to fear is unacceptable. Any discussion of nuclear power will always somehow revert back to this, even…

There's also the minor point that solar isn't actually a renewable energy source, as the materials used to produce solar panels are as finite as fossil fuels. Wind and water are clean and simple, but even if you ringed the entire U.S. with sailor turbines and converted Nebraska into one big wind farm you still…

Fukushima demonstrates the dangers of natural disasters, not nuclear power. Yes, the investigation into the Daiichi facility revealed that TEPCO management was ignoring glaring issues, but considering the plant got hit by a tsunami and didn't collapse entirely, I dare say that nuclear power is perhaps safer than its…

Between that wanky first paragraph and "Intentionally abrasive and going out of his way to be canon-shattering", it's like the awesomely-named Ms Battleground is trying to make me hate it.

Is there a tolerable version of you gathering dust in an attic somewhere?