Having gone into it with much anticipation, I have to admit that The Witcher 2 left me cold, mostly for the reasons stated.

If you have a meal and don't enjoy it, would you suddenly enjoy it more just because a legion of Michelin chefs told you that they did? Is their opinion any more 'right' than yours, anyway?

Ubisoft will never, ever remove their framing narrative, no matter how stupid and interfering it is, because the writers are clearly infatuated with it and seem to think it's actually compelling or entertaining.

I was absolutely bored rigid by Godzilla; I only didn't fall asleep because only assholes do that in cinemas and I was worried about snoring.

I tried to show Battlestar Galactica to a friend of mine (who, to add insult to injury, was a massive fan of sci-fi and mystery shows and had just come off a Lost high) who said he didn't feel particularly hooked by the first half of the pilot, which was unsurprising since he spent the whole time writing a video game…

Oh, it's all fine and dandy to be smashed into atoms by a killing machine with a pilot in it - that's just common courtesy - but a killing machine without a pilot in it? Poppycock!

To be fair, is it any different from the mature adult fans who managed to twist the Roman Polanski saga into a tale of injustice against him?

Yeah, a quarter of a century seems a ludicrously short time for a full-on feudal caste system to suddenly develop. Apparently mankind is one angelic invasion away from Game of Thrones LARPing.

Every time I see Vince Gilligan I can't help but think he looks like a heftier Peytr Baelish.

I can't say I was eagerly anticipating this. Alien Jesus said it better (what a sentence!), but I feel that The Normal Heart is more important as history than entertainment. I have absolutely no desire to see more AIDS-based misery porn.

My personal favourite still has to be:

Yes, thank you! The concept of 'console wars' is melodramatic enough without turning it into 'the Troubles for nerds'.

Yes, because a profession is totally the same as an ethnicity.

Seriously, I think it's a testament to how culturally inculcated racism against the Romani is that shit that no one would dare say about any other group is accepted as fact when it pertains to them.

As luck would have it, his hack son just so happened to find a box of material lying around in the garage, so that Herbert's artistic legacy/cash cow could go on forever. Stories for years!

Yes, please. Let's not let this become another Arrested Development where the fanbase acts insufferably self-righteous for years about how a great underappreciated show was cut down "before it's time" (read; multiple seasons) only to immediately rail on the revival.

BBC made I, Claudius. HBO made Rome.

I love how nowadays any legitimate criticism can simply be dismissed as "backlash" - as if the reason why people hated Johnny Depp was because they resented his success, rather than the fact that he's slept through the same role for over a decade.

Technically, it's merely competent while its characters are poorly-sketched, realised and written and their relationships are tedious. Intellectually, it's atrocious - especially given its pretensions. But it was too boring for me to hatewatch it, as the truly ludicrous moments (like the aforementioned Gun Kata) are…

I wasn't a fan of The West Wing (I thought it was a grossly inaccurate portrayal of how an administration should work, stemming from Sorkin's habitual aversion to conflict) but it was a damn sight better than The Newsroom.