You must have been missing out on some really fucking great movies the last five years, then.

I'm in the camp that Cage knew EXACTLY what he was doing in Vampire's Kiss.

Hipster.

Saying you don't like Family Guy is not exactly like saying you don't like blowjobs or Back to the Future. I can easily buy that someone genuinely wouldn't like it.

With "if you don't like Family Guy you're a hipster", I think we've basically reached the apex of "a hipster is someone whose taste you disagree with".

Across the bottom of the photo, or…?

That's a strange stance to take. I concede that I think the Tiffany Aching books are overall better than the recent Discworld novels. But I could hate them with a passion and I wouldn't be wrong in that either - I don't get how it "doesn't matter what your personal opinion on those are".

They steamrolled Primo Butthole!

As you have the same 3 other favourites as me from this year so far, may I also recommend the new Angel Olsen LP? It's my shared number one with this one.

One of the stories on there is a Big Bang Theory/Discworld crossover. While Pratchett's books have dipped in quality, I don't think he's quite THERE yet.

You're trying to make this something of a personal problem with me, instead of addressing the actual complaints that I have. Which are that the plots are increasingly incoherent, there's a lot of baffling repetition, and now characters are starting to change drastically from the way they've been written for 30 years.

Exactly. And even within those arcs, each book is a stand-alone completely separate story - only character arcs and backstory carry over, the main plot is always something new. I believe the only book that ends on a cliffhanger with a continued plot is the first one.

You know what I mean. They're Discworld books, sure, but written for a Young Adult audience.

I agree that "The Last Continent" has a pretty flimsy plot, but it excels at something "Unseen Academicals" really mangles: the characterisation of the wizards. I find them hilarious and with distinct personalities in "TLC", while they're just this amorphous bumbling blob in "UA". And I do think stuff like that is due…

It's one thing that artists change, but that's not what I have an issue with regarding Pratchett. His books are increasingly becoming more incoherent, less funny and more repetitive. And there is a perfectly understandable reason for that - it's just sad to me.

But…I was agreeing with you. His books lately have been ranging from "pretty good" to "below average", in my opinion. Yet in the past he was consistently writing great book after great book. I understand that that couldn't last forever, but it's still sad.

"Monstrous Regiment" IS 'pretty good'. That's what I said: that he hasn't written a REALLY good book in over a decade.

I used to read Pratchett religiously; read all of his books, and I am sure I've read the first 20 Discworld books close to half a dozen times each. Played the games, bought the maps, the whole shebang.

Alan Moore created Sting?

Not to the nuts?