To be fair (and not to suggest that either outcome is the right one), those two cases happened in different countries with different laws.

If that’s accurate, I feel like you’re being a little harsh on Sheridan. Villeneuve’s changes were admittedly huge improvements, but sound like relatively minor tweaks. Whereas Sollima made far more significant changes, and seems to be behind most of the worst decisions the sequel made.

Nah, they needed to see it in order to ape the style, but they only understood it on a superficial level.

My one question is, do they know what a hedgehog is?

I mean, sure, but is there a comeback which he wouldn’t be heavily criticised for using? Literally anything he said would be interpreted as him attempting to make light of his serial sexual misconduct?

So, when he dusted, do we think Spider-Man left behind 50% of his gut bacteria, which presumably would be unable to survive outside of his guts? If so, it’s actually ~75% of all gut bacteria that died as a direct result of the snap.

Calligraphy can be pretty thrilling though...

There is one exception though: in the comics, playing along for weeks when the girl he has a crush on thinks he’s gay proves not to be a successful pick up technique.

I wouldn’t bother. Either the style (which is really nice) gets you past the fact that the main character is horrible (and not in an interesting way) or it doesn’t. Scott isn’t going to suddenly become a character worth spending two hours with on your third attempt.

You know what might’ve worked (ignoring the many other problems with the film)?

“The need to dispose of a body came as a surprise to the guy in charge of the Embassy”

I hate Scott Pilgrim too. It’s a movie that I recognise as being extremely well made, but Scott is an asshole (and not even an interesting one) who I don’t want to spend any time with. I don’t blame Michael Cera, his performance is pretty good, it’s just that the character is an irredeemably bad choice to lead any film…

I mean, it’s the Walking the Earth trope: stranger wanders into town at the beginning of the episode, gets caught up in local shenanigans, saves the day with his unique abilities, and leaves town again at the end. Plenty of shows have managed it for a lot more than 13 episodes.

I believe it was, but it at least had the excuse of coming out on a console where dual analog sticks weren’t standard.

“If that was a rating in Smith’s final season it would’ve been one of the higher ratings of the season”

Black Panther is one that occurred to me. His very existence was radical and has obvious historic importance, but the character I love really only came to fruition under the likes of McGregor and Priest. It’s impossible to ignore Lee and Kirby’s contribution, but he was a long way from the finished article when they…

Except that there was a 460,000 drop in the final numbers between episodes 4 and 5, and now a 350,000 drop in the unofficial overnight numbers between episodes 5 and 6. It just seems to keep shedding viewers.

And with the episode 5 numbers in, it’s now down 3.2m/29.2% from the premiere. The 7.76m total for last week’s episode wouldn’t look out of place in Smith’s final season, and is only marginally better than Capaldi’s first. If it doesn’t level out soon, it might even be back down in the region of Capaldi’s nadir before…

It’s difficult to meaningfully compare the ratings at this point though.

Eh... why not? It’s no different to a T-shirt with a themed design on it.