Not that I am urging people to be cocky or anything, but just sort of ignore all those "I'm not good enough" and "I can't do this" and "I'm a huge failure" [messages]. Writers just need to ignore that, pretend it doesn't exist, and move on.

I wish this had been the pitch for Caprica — a show which, sadly, started getting consistently good about five minutes after nobody cared anymore. Just saying...

It's also something any aspiring screenwriter should analyze closely — because the hardest thing to do at all well is the expository info-dump, which is every bit as gross as it sounds. Extra skill points required to do so while not boring the crap out of people already familiar with the franchise.

We dare you to find a character introduction and more insane than that of Castor Troy in John Woo's Face/Off.

A whole heap of charm on top of a mountain of eyeliner

I hate to think where she hides it, because I'm reasonably confident vortex manipulators (and hallucinogenic lipstick) are contraband in Stormcage Prison. I think that's one spoiler this sweetie is happy to leave a mystery. :)

Could be - 'Timey wimey" and all that jazz. :) Actually, have you read Dan Simmons' The Rise of Endymion? That reminds me of the hellishly bitter-sweet ending to the romance of Raul and Aenea (which also closes off an apparent glaring plot hole to boot).

And the whole River plotline has just convinced me that Moffat is sexist.

As I understand it, Fringe was a pretty expensive show and while I grant the ratings weren't in the toilet awful they weren't consistently where Fox wanted them to be. It was a textbook "bubble" show, and to be fair Fox didn't get "the next Lost" they so obviously wanted and deserve some credit for committing instead…

If the basis of your heroic main character is that he is utterly untrustworthy and can't be arsed to say a true thing, even with stuff as precious as the human heart or as urgent as human lives, how exactly is that... fun, or useful, or interesting in any way?

Ouch... I'm still trying to figure out how the hell River bounces around from the 52nd century, because I'm reasonably confident Captain Jack's still got both his hands (and his teleport thingy). Hell, I'd still like to know how London gets over-run by aliens every other week and nobody remembers! I've heard of…

Would it be wrong to assume show knows what the heck "the fall of the Eleventh" means, and it's just one more secret she has to keep?

I don't think he's "disgusted" by River at all. In a weird way, I think was he finds fascinating about River is that she's a lot more like him than anyone else in the universe — generally crap at the whole impulse control thing, makes an awful mess of things with the very best of good intentions, always seems to have…

Personally, the one thing I always love about River is that she makes The Doctor hellishly uncomfortable. He's so damn used to being the smartest sentient being in the room, it's weirdly endearing that he seems drawn to people who can call bullshit when he's being a dick — and, not so secretly, I think he not only…

The Doctor marries River, but he never says he loves her, and the way the scene is staged, it's almost like he's marrying her to appease her, to get her to restart time and fix the universe. In fact, the Doctor mostly seems disgusted with River.

Well... that should make the next series of Sherlock interesting — since someone better have some clue how the hell he faked his death. :)

Oh, I have no problem with Pellegrino never being out of work. Partly because I'm not a big enough asshole to wish unemployment on anyone; but mostly because, like Mark Shepherd, he's a rock solid character actor who'd class up a septic tank and SFF television is a better place for them. :)

Mark Waid pens the Avengers series Steed and Mrs. Peel:

Don't get me wrong, I like Sherlock a LOT — and even the things that bug me about the show a lot don't make it a hell of a lot better than 90% of what's out there. But what happened to the idea that smart, capable, attractive sexually active people can flirt, mess with each other's heads for all kinds of reasons and…

For all the bitching Fox gets (more than enough of it perfectly justified) who else was lining up to green light Dollhouse in the first place? (Or, come to that, the Sarah Connor Chronicles or more than one season of Fringe?)