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I like travelling by foot in general, but (in spite of what it says in the article) Wind Waker's oceans are pretty featureless. The toon style is gorgeous - I love it - but it does rather work against the ocean. It's pretty much a flat field of blue that seems to go on for hours in every direction. I much prefer

To be fair to the Sun, you couldn't live on Venus either. Or, you know, 9 of the celestial bodies on this list.

I made that comment somewhere else too. If the film had ended that way, I think it'd be an enduring classic.

For me, Judy Dench is probably the most obvious Brit not to get a part in any of the Harry Potter films. I was sure she'd end up involved in some way. I guess you could say the same of Ian McKellen/Patrick Stewart, but they already have their own blockbuster franchises going on.

Yeah - that's just a standard village in the English countryside. Could be one of a thousand different places. I didn't particularly get Hot Fuzz from it, but as an Englishman I see little villages like this on telly every week.

Yeah - but that movie had an excuse. It was made in the 90s.

I think the only chance "Heroes Reborn" had of being any good was with an entirely new cast, so I'm not completely pessimistic about this. The fewer ties to the original series, the better. There's nothing wrong with the overall concept, and the first season proves that the writers aren't completely incompetent. It

That level of attention to detail… tells me quite a lot about you, to be honest ;)

Yes - there are problems with trying to maintain the status quo indefinitely, and it was a brave move, but like everything else Abrams has ever made, he got too obsessed with twists and shocks, and the plot became an untameable beast.

While the Alias episode itself wasn't bad, it was the end of its amazing run. From this point onwards, Alias managed to pull off the unlikely trick of getting both dafter AND more boring.

I'm surprised that (from what I can see) nobody has mentioned the callback in Archer thinking that Ireland were an Axis power.

I'd accept that assessment. In hindsight, I think season 1 is the only truly great season. Every season after that has at least one major issue. I guess that was always going to be a problem once they'd worked through the complicated dark family history/backstory storyline they'd painstakingly plotted for the initial

The truth is, if Sue apparently died on a boat in a thunderstorm, and then was revealed to be secretly living as a lumberjack, it would be pretty much the best Glee ending ever… It would be amazing enough that I'd probably actually watch the episode.

I'm not sure that they could have gotten to this point any other way. I'm personally looking forward to a superhero origin story that starts when we've already followed a character for 20 hours! Normally you get 20 minutes of a regular person, before their accident gives them extraordinary abilities: a real fleshed

Her character on Angel and Buffy was a pretty exaggerated scenery-chewer. She was written so over the top in BtVS that it was always going to be loads of fun to watch. She didn't exactly need a lot of range to play Faith. Her role in Dollhouse was the exact opposite - that show needed a phenomenal actress in the lead

Eliza Dushku is by far the weakest female lead in any Whedon project. Chloe Bennett has a few limitations, but she's proved pretty competent this year in general.

It's NOT called "Now You Don't"?
I'm out.

I'm really not sure how I feel about tame raptors. I prefer my raptors terrifying.

Couldn't disagree more about Dollhouse: the first season was 50% terrible. It took until about episode 6 or 7 to get watchable. Season 2 was pretty impressive. They needed more time (and more advance warning) to close the series properly, but the plot they played out was a pretty satisfying idea, if a little rushed.

It's almost as if they wrote it as a 20 episode season split into a 'Benefactor' arc and a 'Kate' arc, filmed the first half, and then suddenly realised that they only had 2 episodes left to finish what they had planned for season 4B. I agree with the general consensus that the current plots have more promise than