Do people actually claim that ? I mean, the tiny grain of truth in the middle is that “big bang theory” _was_ originally a mocking term but Sir Fred Hoyle was very far from a fundamentalist Christian (as a 10 second Google would tell them).

Can you give more specifics ? I’m asking for a friend.

Trivial point but Dead Set was actually a Channel 4 production (same as The End of the Fucking World). Back then Channel 4 also broadcast Big Brother UK so as well as a fun horror mini-series it’s a sort of bizarre cross-promotion (things likely lost on non-UK viewers: the voice of Big Brother in Dead Set is the…

Fun fact you likely already know: the nice detective is played by Gemma Whelan, the same actor who plays Yara in Game of Thrones.

If they stick to the book I’d expect to see an Asian actor play Kovacs for part of the time but as you say, based on the premise, plot-wise it doesn’t really make sense for them to do that over most of the story.

Funnily too, I was also discussing this not so long ago and think the exact opposite ;). In that, because of the premise, they can do one series with one star then, if they want, another series with another star. It lends itself quite well to an anthology style approach with an entirely different cast and setting…

“So does this take place in the 21st century or the 24th?”

Firstly no, he’s Scottish. Secondly yeah, our liberals have traditionally been different (more like a classical liberal except left-leaning by American standards) but the UK usage is gradually morphing into the US meaning because we’re heavily influenced by US culture.

This. He’s lambasted by one “side” just for making the Master a woman and now he’s being lambasted by the other “side” for _not_ making the Doctor a woman. Moffat can’t win basically.

Counterpoint: He wrote “Heaven Sent” as EP.

One of the cool-not-cool things about the revamp is reading posts from fans who “grew up with Doctor Who” only to discover they’re 22 ;).

I think the issue with “Kill the Moon” is partly that it’s very familiar to us, we all know about the Moon’s effect on the Earth via tides, it’s a bit of science which is so everyday that if you break it you have to do it _really_ well (whereas you can throw “quantum” in front of nonsense and most viewers will just…

Fun fact: Muslim residents in the Khalifa Tower have to start and stop their fasts during Ramadan at different times because sunset is at different times depending on which floor you live on. Which makes complete sense on a roughly oblately spheroidal Earth and no-doubt has numerous flat-Earth Youtube videos…

Not sure if you’re kidding but toilets aren’t affected by the Coriolis effect and it’s a myth that they flush in different directions in the different hemispheres (on those scales the effect is much too small).

Me too, even though I can’t now see anyone do that without hearing Deadpool saying “Superhero landing !”.

I dunno, it was the first i’d heard of them. Last thing I heard of Mack she was actively pushing micro-loans for women owned businesses in the developing world. Basically, she really seemed to have her head screwed on right and was using her ‘Smallville’ profile and cash for a good cause. So these rumours, if true,…

The young Kara actress did well in this respect too IMO, there were times she held her head in a way which was Melissa Benoist to an absolute T (as well as the uncanny physical resemblance).

The US system sounds way more flexible than here (UK) - even after all these years of watching US TV and films I hadn’t realised you get to keep choosing courses until your final year and so can end up in a class with younger students. Over here we leave school at 16 but from 16-18 most people will do either A-levels…

Oh no worries, we’re just two randoms talking on the internet ;).

I guess the difference to me is, if somehow we lived in a world where 55 years ago a woman was cast as the Doctor and ever since then she’d been played by a woman then the change averse people would be equally adamant that the Doctor never be played by a man.