Fair enough.

Yeah. I liked what they did with Moriarty, but it only works in small doses. The longer he's on screen, the hammier it becomes. In a bad way.

I think it goes by the east coast, which I further think is five hours behind, so it should be done by 3.30am ish our time (unless they pad it out with adverts). Only there have been no screeners, so it's also however long it takes to write the review. And I'd guess there's a lot to say, and I'm sure any controversy…

Yeah. That poor shark must be starving by now. They're just tormenting the fucker.

A = Moffat/Gatiss. B = audience.

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I hate it when I'm right. Look forward to the review.

It'd be a momentous thing to watch the original line up get into a spat onstage. To be able to say, as the court cases roll on, that you were there when it all started.

I wonder just how rubbish Sherlock is going to be.

"I don't watch this show and have no stake in it, but…mightn't it be an affectation or eccentricity on Holmes' part?"

That's a shame.

I heard a few years back that 'turn the other cheek' was a call to demand parity. That Romans would slap their equals one way aross the face, and their lessers another and that, where one 'turns the other cheek', one is demanding to be treated as an equal. I liked that, though it's probably wrong.

I want to put a plug in for the George C. Scott 'A Christmas Carol'. He's the best Scrooge I've seen, and the film itself is solid stuff. It also has Edward Woodward and Roger Rees doing fine turns. I caught it on a late night broadcast about 13 years ago, and its been an annual tradition ever since.

That's not what I said.

I don't think the insistence is on its erasure, or being hidden. Having a problem with GoT's use and depiction of rape is not the same thing as being against any and all use and depiction of rape in drama (though some people are, and have their reasons for being so).

It is relatively long, yes, though I don't think it's so long as to be described as 'all that'. I was trying to deal with the various protests I've seen here against people criticising the use of rape in GoT. I kept it as short as I could, but I wanted to put something together that was, for me at least, pretty…

Jesus suffering fuck. Seriously? You seriously think that's what I said?

An overview of the various arguments - well, rationalisations - which have been put forward to dismiss not just criticisms of GoT's use and depiction of rape, but the very idea of criticising GoT's use and depiction of rape. I am not talking about other things that happen because that is not what this Newswire is…

"I just don't like it when people say things like.. oh you like GoT, well
I could never like that show because I don't like rape and violence.."

Don't know how this doesn't have 500 upvotes. Cracks me up every time I pass it.