But you just know that's only because Zachary Quinto had the good sense to refuse to come back. Hell, given Luke's ethical slalom over the course of the season, I wouldn't be surprised if his part was originally intended for Sylar.

Dear Heroes Reborn: if you really want me to forget that your newly-minted hero Luke is Dylan Roof in a slightly more attractive package, you might want to hold off on multiple scenes in which he fondles a handgun with more emotion than he's ever shown for his actual wife.

I'd kind of like Chuck to be a little more depressed, actually. For someone allegedly struggling to shoulder the guilt of having been a serial killer for a year, he's awfully chipper.

No, because fanfiction generally tries to add something new or different to the source material it's writing about, whether that's imagining a romance between characters, or putting them all in an alternate universe where they're high school kids or classical musicians or mermaids, or taking their story far into the…

It's not like this is the first time this type of story has been told, and I promise you it won't be the last.

My goodwill towards Sherlock ran out around the second season. I watch it these days because I want to fully enjoy fandom's outrage-gasms, and because there's always bound to be at least a little bit of entertainment value (though I have to say the recent special didn't really deliver on that front).

Kristen Bell is technically a movie star. Not in any movies I care to see, but I'm happy for her, so there's that.

Perhaps I should have amended that to "stead work on a show that I have even the slightest interest in watching."

So explain this to me: pretty much everyone who was on this show (and wasn't already a known quantity, like McShane and Dourif) has gone on to have a pretty solid career: Oliphant, Dillahunt, John Hawkes, Jim Beaver, Robin Weigert, Kim Dickens, Anna Gunn, Paula Malcolmson. Hell, even Timothy Omundson and Kristen…

So basically, this is the story of how the Doctor married Queen Elizabeth, except it's the wrong Doctor and the wrong Elizabeth.

She played the title role in an adaptation of Little Dorrit in 2008. It was quite good.

Further adventures in catching up on December TV: guys, I'm starting to think that this was a mistake.

With LMM writing them, we can at least trust that the songs in Moana will be more interesting, and not sound like they're each from a completely different musical.

The first season definitely suffered from some of the show's core problems - over-the-top violence, treating women like pieces on a game board, the completely implausible tolerance of Luther's antics from everyone in his life - but it still felt more grounded, and like a more coherent piece of storytelling, than any…

The problem isn't ending the show. The problem is dumping its episodes seemingly at random. The series finale is the resolution of a huge cliffhanger. What kind of behavior it is to air it two and a half months after the episode that set it up? It's completely disrespectful to Hirsch and his team's work on the…

The ending of this season leaves things very open to another story - it basically sets up a new Big Bad. But I found that character completely uninteresting, and as I said I'm over Luther himself, so I probably won't bother watching if it ever happens.

In my continuing adventures of catching up with all the TV I didn't watch in December, last night I watched the ultra-short fourth season of Luther, and, well, the good news is that I no longer feel any need to follow this show. I'm not even mad about The Thing, because it was probably the only way to get around the…

So on the one hand, hurrah for finally having a date. But on the other hand, why do Disney hate this show so much that they won't even give it the dignity of a proper ending?

So this weekend I finally finished and sent off a writing project that I've been working on for most of the year and, more intensely, all last month. Which means I finally got to catch up with all the TV I have banked from the last couple of weeks. Some thoughts:

In principle I like the idea of how she ends up. In practice I thought getting there was kind of pointless. But then I've learned not to expect much from Who finales, which usually suffer from the need to deliver some grand and important adventure.