Heh, sorry, way more than you ever wanted to know about the BBC I suspect :).

Agreed, the "countdown to midnight" scene in general is pretty great, partly because of the montage and the score but also just because I always like it when they acknowledge that the TARDIS is more than just an inanimate object* and having a heart surgeon perform bypass surgery on the old box to bring her back to…

Well, there's Irn-Bru. And then any team beating England at any sport.

They came after the TV movie though.

Or any other shot for that matter (as seen in Jessica Jones S1).

He's very strong too so you can fanwank it as he absorbs the momentum with his muscles. But yeah, accurate physics may not be playing too large a role in the show ;-).

Hah, yeah it is a bit morbid, thinking up ways to kill arguably the only unambiguously decent hero in the Netflix MCU so far (I love JJ and Daredevil but they're both a fair bit greyer than Cage IMO, their heroism feels slightly more selfish in some ways).

I get and broadly agree with your point about the dramatic stakes being unaffected even if his physical peril is low. That's why it's still possible to write an affecting Superman story.

The licence fee pretty much pays for the BBC entire. So that's the 3 TV channels of BBC1, 2 and 4 ( and their corresponding HD and +1 versions) along with the online only channel BBC3. Then the specialty channels like e.g. BBC Alba (Scots Gaelic language programming) or News 24 (24 hr news channel). Then there're 6 or…

Yeah, to me their inability or unwillingness to do so is just more evidence that the position is indefensible but i've had discussions with various people who come up with "reasons" for their bigotry and I have a tiny smidge more respect for them than others of their kind. At least they're trying to justify their…

Yeah, that makes sense to me. My issue is with your point flipped around slightly in that in some situations you'll see people who think it sometimes goes too far automatically being lumped in with those who ignore/downplay the actual serious issues (it even happened in the thread above).

I'm not sure it is either. The point though was whether it's even valid to talk about, which I think it is.

The length of time it's taken for Trump supporters to realise that you can't back someone for telling it like it is while also seemingly accepting that he doesn't really mean most of what he says has been pretty mind boggling.

Might be thinking it off the back of this:

I agree that calling out PC is often just a cover for bigotry but I dunno, I think it's at least valid to talk about. Is there really no point at which what some refer to as PC could go too far ?

I'll need to rewatch episode 9 but didn't he actually say "my dear" when Fiore had to leave his comics ? You don't hear that usage between men much anymore in the UK but certainly 50-100+ years ago it wasn't uncommon for straight men to refer to each other as "dear" (particularly elder to younger).

It'll be close to 18 months between series when it debuts in the Autumn. Long time, even by UK TV standards.

One of the things that made B5 great was that for all it was classic, big vision space-opera (the station itself is still the most faithful depiction of an O'Neill colony onscreen AFAIK) it also had _dirt_ and people doing menial jobs and main characters who were deeply flawed. Garibaldi as played by Jerry Doyle…

And the one he co-wrote was with his wife so Brooker definitely prefers to keep the writing close. The only episode he had no hand in writing was by Jesse Armstrong who co-created "Peep Show" among other things.

I'm not from the US and the prospect of a Trump presidency is… disconcerting. Guy's clearly either stupid or a con-man (or maybe both) and either dangerously unpredictable, bigoted and insular or using the appearance of that to garner populist, fear-based votes.