I used to find that annoyingly evasive and/or unnecessarily alien as a trait but then I realized that if I couldn't subtract the my birthdate from the current year whenever I needed to figure it out I'd probably be in exactly the same situation.

In fairness depending on how you're calculating relative worth (it varies a lot) thirty pounds in the 1600s could be the equivalent of anywhere from about four thousand pounds to (well) over a million ones. So being really impressed by that amount might not be that strange.

A concrete fleshlight to be particular.

So, Ashildr adopts a plan, and presumably continues to live up to it, of essentially following the Doctor around and helping people pick up the pieces in his wake (due to his tendency to immediately disappear after whatever crisis is resolved. And that's probably something necessary given how quickly he vanishes. …

I don't think the script really earned it either, but it's possible to take her last minute change of heart to be less of a failure. We've already heard about how she essentially constructs her sense of self by selectively remembering some things and/or thinking of herself in some ways. And for most of the episode…

That's what, one arrow every ten seconds? I feel like almost anyone who could draw the bow in the first place could do that. I also like that she immediately started boasting about getting really close to the fighting - that is not how being an archer works!

I don't think the character is particularly boastful about the powers in general, especially given where the whole superhero thing led her, so 'playing coy' probably isn't what she's doing. Also she's talking to someone who absolutely could stop a car including one going pretty quickly so it's not like she's trying…

I hadn't thought of it before but you're right Bettany would have been a neat choice - though I still think Ryan did surprisingly well with what he had to work with.

LGF wasn't where it showed up first - it was a guy on FreeRepublic. The idea that Charles Johnson was a plant is actually pretty ludicrous, but there's a much better case for the guy who actually kicked the whole thing off.

The first guy who started (almost immediately) the 'kerning and font don't match!' was actually a lawyer connected to a bunch of Republican party stuff - which does give the 'planted by person famous for setting people up and dirty tricks generally' theory a bit more plausibility.

My best guess as to what they were up to if they had a separate motivation from 'lookit what we found' - and it is puzzling a bit - is that they could tell exactly how full of crap the swiftboat stuff was (despite reporting on the 'controversy' all the same), and were hoping to make it go away with a "now now children …

Or, alternatively and very plausibly, that the people who immediately started claiming that they could discern important kerning differences between typewriter and more modern fonts based on seeing someone holding up the memo on television knew what to say ahead of time. (The objections first started from Harry…

This is all pretty much true, but I think CBS really could have expected that there might be some foul play going on - it's not like they weren't also writing loads of articles about how Evil Genius Karl Rove was really great at planting false stories/manipulating the press/etc. at the same time.

The "probably true anyway" is based on a really large amount of other evidence. It was way more than "a lot of maybes". The memos (that were pretty sketchy and probably fake) were only one bit of that and a relatively small bit too. Part of the reason CBS didn't vet them well enough is that they didn't actually have…

Care Bears! Live action Care Bears! With actual bears!

Not really. As far as I could tell almost anything political was carefully excised, along with most horrifying or genuinely cynical bits. Constantine went from, basically, a (charismatic) creep and a con artist to a heroic soul trying to make up for his bad deeds who also happened to be sarcastic about the fact that…

It's hard for me to take this seriously. Constantine didn't do well because, despite the amazing casting it just wasn't that good. There wasn't any interesting selling point to it - they just tried to make it a rip off of Supernatural. People who really liked Hellblazer weren't too keen on it, and people who liked…

He probably just went home, changed into the costume, came back and cooled the bullet down a little, then went home and changed back, and then came back and fell over holding the bullet, that's all. SPEED FORCE!

I dunno - they need a way of introducing Wally West and all the people linked to Barry Allen and already on the show named West are black, so it seems like a natural/not-needing-like-five-new-things way to bring him in.

"You know, this app only costs $1.99. I'm surprised more people don't use it."