Right now, I'm doing what i did post-Brexit: Dark Souls. There's something about triumph after 40 hours of uphill struggle against a seemingly endless gauntlet of monsters which is such a good metaphor for politics.

The biggest fantasy of that show was that people of duelling ideologies could actually listen to each other.

If Man of Steel sucks (I really don't get why everyone is so hard on the film) then it doesn't suck because Superman is conflicted. Personal conflict is something that almost every origin story will have in some degree. If Man of Steel sucks, then what sucks is the inability of Zac Snyder to direct good movies, or,…

You know, I just don't think democracy works. Not in the nations of millions that we inhabit today.

I'm not one for monarchy, but I'll take a Queen over President Trump.

She can do some things. Just not exercise executive power.

I always think that most films about the Royals, despite pretences of historicity, will always have to sacrifice a true, unflinching, or even cynical view of the royal family for access. It's contradictory: sacrificing narrative reality for visual reality. So I can forgive the Crown for perhaps not being as piercing…

I think, really, fandom is kinda the problem. The stars didn't align, and the Beatles aren't the greatest band ever. The thing is, they did come along at a good time, but they also came along at a time in which the internet didn't exist, where print media was how people found out what films were good. For a lot of…

I agree with you, but I don't think it's necessary, or fair, to assume that he doesn't like Westworld because his 'brain is small and underpowered'.

Well, depending on the rules and regulations of the world, tattling could be the difference between unemployment and incarceration. Think what they actually did: create a pain-resistant, aware, super-intelligent robot. If that thing lays a finger on anyone those two dimwits are liable and facing jail time for criminal…

We'll get to that when we've stopped pretending she's a Mary Sue.

I think Landis has some talent, though I think he's got more of a talent for pitching ideas than writing screenplays.

I'm just saying, we thought brexit was going to lose. I remember watching the results coming in, we were winning at first, then I watched the country slowly turn yellow.

Ah, you know me so well. I am clearly a compassion-less monster because I don't think computers are people.

As much as I do want to see more female-led Hollywood films, I can't do what many people have done and ignore that it's just as lazy and greedy an exploitation of branding as any film has done.

On the internet, the odds are surprisingly good.

I suppose everyone could be tinkered with. I guess they're tinkered with all the way down.

Someone else has been tinkering. That could explain Maeve's actions, but not the surgeons. In any case, it's not satisfying to have an episode of mystery end with a new mystery.

Of course the trolls were there from the start. But the way the producers acted just pushed people into the troll's arms.

How does Maeve understand that, when she knows nothing of the real world? she adjusts to a situation that she was never built to even comprehend with a speed and depth that is unrealistic, given what we've seen of the hosts when confronted with reality (remember Abernathy?)