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?”

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.

I think the thing to remember, particularly for a fellow long-time fan like yourself, is that ‘Doctor Who’ is basically the TV embodiment of “This too shall pass.” - you’re not losing the Doctor as a male role model partly because of the back catalogue and partly because i’d be absolutely astonished if Capaldi is the…

Yeah, just a smidge. Plus, y’know corpses and so on but really very few, i’d say virtually zero corpses at any particular instant.

Well, the outcome is certainly the same so in that sense they’re functionally equivalent but surely when claiming someone is a certain way it’s important that they personally actually are that way (otherwise we’re claiming something that isn’t true) ? The change averse response isn’t saying “I want to preserve the…

The closest to anything sensible that i’ve seen is that a male Doctor is a good role model for young boys, most of whose fictional male heroes are much more pro-violence, less about using their brains etc. He can also be quite camp and definitely isn’t a traditionally masculine character in most incarnations which is…

Traditionally, only if you’re holding yer lapels and doin’ the Lambeff wawk (oy!) when you say it.

Hah, good one (it runs through the middle of a city of around 9 million people so, y’know, nope ;).

I mean, he was _well known_ in the UK at the time but very far from revered. For the most part, as far as it makes sense to generalise about the opinions of 60+ million people, we thought he was a bit of a twat (a guy was arrested for allegedly trying to cut his water pipe, people hit golf balls at the box, people…