For my gold-pressed latinum, nothing will ever look more silly-yet-awesome than the Sontarans - extremely angry cloned baked potatoes that can be brought down with a well-aimed tennis ball to their neck anuses. :)

In season one, I think you were very much supposed to be unsure about where Nina (and Massive Dynamic) stood in relation to Olivia, and what her history was with Walter and William Bell. Nina is "one of the good guys" — but that doesn't mean, like Walter, she hasn't spent a lot of time doing morally dubious things…

"supposedly has in development."

In a weird and screwed up way, I think Regina really does love Henry... as far as she's capable of loving anyone. And, hey, you don't have to be an evil fairytale queen (or Rumplestiltskin) for "love" and "creepy manipulation" not to be mutually exclusive. :)

Personally, I think the first season of TNG would have been vastly improved by some post-genocide angst. Then again, I'm the kind of heretical Trekkie who LOVED DS9 and thought the last movie was just dandy. (Which in some circles, is like taking Richard Dawkins as your date to the church picnic.)

Fair enough. Hell, I love Battlestar Galactica but totally get what plenty of people I know (and whose taste I respect) found it relentlessly grim. :)

Is The Walking Dead EVER not relentlessly depressing?

I'm wondering how the Allfather is going to explain his way out of that.

Also, when you read novels by people like Richardson, you're struck by the claustrophobia of these characters, who seldom get to go anywhere themselves. They're trapped in one place, with one situation they can't escape, and writing letters to a friend is literally the only freedom they have. The only privacy, too.

Well in America, there is no 'going to jail' over the MPAA ratings. New Zealand law seems draconian..

True enough - after all, it doesn't cost much to play Six Degrees of Judd Apatow and come up with a barrage of stoner dick gags it's nigh on impossible not to at least break even on. (We'll put Your Highness in the "exception that proves the rule" file.)

And at the risk of sounding a tad bitter and bitchy, I think Doctor Who is one of those gigs where you can not only forget about making everyone happy, but just get used to the fact that some folks will never be satisfied with anything you do. :) After all, there are plenty of people who are never going to reconcile…

but not why they split the season. Ain't no Olympics going on between now and Christmas.

I wish I could get into Superman. I just can't help but feel like he's the lame 1950s dad of the comic universe.

Totally agree. I find it rather ironic that I could perfectly legally (under New Zealand law) plant a ten year old on the couch and show them The Hunger Games. If I screened - or even knowing loaned - a DVD of Battle Royale to anyone under the age of eighteen, I could face criminal charges with a maximum penalty of…

I suppose broadcast TV has a responsibility to not go beyond PG due to its widely available nature.

Quite - and I wonder if that's something about 2000 AD in general that doesn't cross the pond well. Hell, when I was a youngling I'd totter off the newsagent every week for my fix of Judge Dredd, Rogue Trooper, Strontium Dog, Nemesis The Warlock, Robo-Hunter etc. Thirty years on, I can appreciate there was actually…

4) The R rating.

And, frankly, I think even the most rabid Whovians will need to just build a bridge and get over the fact that this year a LOT of shows were just shoved out of the way of the Olympics. Anyone who thought arguably the biggest sporting event on the planet, being held in London no less — wasn't going to be a big…

I don't know why Moffat has insisted on splitting up his seasons. It's weird, and if he's doing it to build tension, it's a cheap trick.