Worth noting one reason why book fans are predicting that whilst tv will go with 'Daenyrus and Jon as heroes', the books may well have Dany as 'mad queen' (charismatic ruler with a major fuck-ton of evil behind her, and in GRRM logic, what happens with Dothrakyi ruling Westeros if Daeny dies of cholera 3 weeks into…

Yeah - doesn't make sense, and is more part of the general 'LF = villain (correct), so everything LF does must be the most villainous option, he even eats his coco-pops in a style precisely calculated to drive cute puppies insane" variety. LF wasn't sure which way to jump, and delayed his choice til the last possible…

Nah, they were horrendously sexist too (though middle and upper close widows were a massive exception - they kept their wealth and had total freedom from sexual restrictions, and it wasn't unusual for them to hire male athletes/soldiers as sex workers).

Oddly it seems from the preview that it's the docs careless time navigation that's to blame if she does get pulled off the wagon by her earlier self.

I've said it before, but the fact that Missy could easily carry the lead duties for half - 2/3 season makes it all the more disappointing that Moffat never ended up doing a Valeyard arc.

Wait, what, there's a HARDCORE version of Pleasantville? Is there a….link somewhere? For academic interest, of course…

Possibly, but surely they'd have to have realised that everybody is just going to view it as confirming their existing political beliefs:

Not one of the good guys, no. But it's not like people here go around doing what he says just because he's PM. This is not a country where you obey your town mayor unless he's got some serious popular/religious backing, let alone a PM in a far-away city.

Self-reply: I unsubscribed from JSTOR a while back, so I don't have the direct links to the research, but I strongly encourage any news editor reading this to go to your nearest academic library (any university library will have JSTOR access on their computers, and at most you'll need a guest login, which you can get…

Nothing to be ashamed of. It's just called 'self-awareness'. Your kids can play their nerf gun games, and it won't turn them into an NRA fanatic.

And for those of us that comprise the other 98% of the world (i.e. the ones who are view Trump, like all US politicians, as far less relevant that the current leadership battles in China and India). what should we make of it?

The beautiful thing about Children of Earth was the way in which it refused to condemn Capaldi's public servant character, and just acknowledging that as awful as his actions were, they were because he was taking the only available option for saving Earth (given a choice b/w 'everyone dies' and 'lose 1/3 of your…

Plus, out of all the villains to use - the only one I can think of where the treatment would have been more disappointing would be if that was 'the' Valeyard season.

That whole season is so frustratingly brilliant, particularly when you read how it was basically part 1 of a 3-season 'we're guessing they're going to cancel the show soon, so let's give this a big finale' epic storyline.

Cognac is a terrible recommendation for introducing someone to Brandy. Brandy is all about 'the best per $' - you can spend up to half a million dollars on a bottle, so it really is about setting a price and getting the best you can for that price (and if you dodge the over-priced big 4, and cognac generally, you get…

In fairness, I thought the guy was massively underrated ever since Sunshine. He managed to stand out in a terrific ensemble (Rose Byrne, Cillian Murphy, Hiroyuki Sanada, plus a number of lesser names giving career-best performances) despite having what, on paper, should have been the blandest role.

TBH it sounds like the show-runner was responsible for the more comic episodes (which have been great), but seriously underappreciated the amazing management of tone shift back to ED1 in the last 2-3 episodes of season 1.

Their career was lengthened greatly past their public fame, by virtue of being the first band to have a number 1 hit album with no hit singles (i.e. they continued to sell some massive album sales, longer after departing the radio, probably because they changed their sound from hair-metal to thrash-metal. Also…

I agree. Not even Ward, just handsome young actor Brett Dalton. He feels the hollowness of his showbiz lifestyle and envies the fictional Ward's sense of purpose, until he decides to make himself into Ward for real - but in a shock twist, Marvel threaten to sue him for copyright infringement, and so he takes the name…

It's sort of like 80s-early90s U2. Listen to it now and it sound derivative. Thing is, all the stuff it sounds derivative of came out in the 2-3 years AFTER the U2 album.