A matter of opinion I also share. I like humour, and there's plenty of it at the Dissolve but most of it's on topic.

"NOT being snarky"

There's humour (Nathan used yo write for the site for Pete's sake) but the main features and reviews quite rightly treat their subject matter seriously and free of incessant and glib pop-culture references.

I'd prefer The Dissolve to focus on cinema but in view of how much TV and cinema overlaps now and how much they inform each other, plus the abundance of great TV at the moment, I'd welcome some type of regular TV feature.

I don't understand the design criticisms. I find it to be a very tidy and easy to navigate site.

There are no weeks-old articles on the front page, unless you're referring to the two week Christmas recess. At most some of the features at the bottom of the page are about four or five days old. As for no weekend updates, weekend film news is slow and its small number of staff need breaks every now and then.

I think The Dissolve is extremely easy to navigate, and arguably a tidier site than this one. Reviews to the right, features at the bottom and updated editorials in the centre. I don't see what's bad about that layout.

By the standards of Game of Thrones I'd actually say Roose Bolton, although unforgivably indulgent of his son's predilection for abuse and torture, is one of the show's better fathers. The Boltons are all round hateful human-beings but as a parent at least Roose accepts his 'bastard'. Not even the angelic Ned Stark…

I love in-Universe continuity so I do hope President Ellis returns. I'm surprised he hasn't yet been announced for Civil War in view of the important part the government plays in that story.

How come you're not posting this at The Dissolve Nerd?

I just figured it was set in a different part of the city to the first film. I can't explain the entirely new Wayne Manor however. Then again, Bruce Wayne's a billionaire; maybe there was more than one Wayne Manor.

I don't know. He was kind of nerdy in My Blue Heaven; the uptight, by-the-book nerd.

I'm not sure if this is what Eyeballman is alluding to, but Alan Menken and Howard Ashman's huge success on Little Shop…presumably led to their work on The Little Mermaid, which of course heralded Disney Animation's second golden age.

One of the play's few drawbacks is the dearth of female parts (although 'Audrey' is at least a great role) so six doo-wop girls is entirely forgivable.

But Audrey has such a specifically 'New York' accent, and the cast's mix of Italian and Jewish characters suggests a 1950s East Coast setting.

One of the biggest regrets of my life was never getting a chance to play Seymour. I had to change high school in my penultimate year, but I always thought that my ex-girlfriend and best friend, who were also into musical theatre, would have made a great Audrey and Orin Scrivello, DDS, respectively.

It's easier to accept the lead characters' deaths in a stage production, especially when the actors appear for an encore come the play's close, as opposed to a film.

It's a great song (and oddly still part of the film's official soundtrack) but I'm glad the film went for the 'happy ending'. Bleak endings work better on stage where there's a greater remove between the audience and the characters they are watching.

But he played the whole gamut of nerds. In Little Shop…he played a sweet nerd, in Ghostbusters he played a hapless, klutzy nerd, in Parenthood he played a more aloof/competent, yuppie nerd and in The Flintstones he played Barney Rubble.

Did anyone in the US ever turn 'Clue' into a quiz show? A British version ran for three seasons, plus a Christmas special during the early 90s, and was pretty enjoyable since it was half-drama and half-regular quiz show.