Sorry, not quite sure I get you ? Tennant as Kilgrave is playing an English character using an English accent (it's basically his 10th Doctor accent only, y'know, evil). Unless you mean you don't think his English accent is very good ? That's subjective of course - as a Scot living in England it sounds pretty decent…

It's not that they die, it's the way it happened. Too downbeat. Sure, brave, tough, resourceful people die stupid, pointless deaths all the time in real-life. One of the reasons I watch sci-fi movies is to try to forget that fact for a couple of hours, not to have my nose rubbed in it.

Also+, pretty sure that's a promotional still i.e. not the director/DoP's choice of angle, not lit brilliantly, perhaps not colour corrected etc. since in the actual "hero" shot from the episode (this is basically the opening of the big showdown at the end of the crossover) the three flying characters are, y'know,…

Maybe that but the cross-overs are also designed for people who don't watch all 4 shows to follow (though if you do you'll get more out of it of course). That said, I was actually surprised at how much of each series' ongoing story was included in the "4" part cross-over - you're lucky you follow The Flash for…

Supergirl and Flash have their own separate cross-over thing going. There still aren't that many (2 major and maybe 4 or 5 minor cameo style cross-overs per season spread across around 100 hours of TV) although given the success of them, i'd imagine The CW are going to push for more, hopefully without going crazy with…

Yeah, it's been/being regenerated from what I gather (got a relative that was with the police in Edinburgh) and doesn't have a lot of the issues it had even when "Trainspotting" was released, nevermind when the book was set.

Indeed. I suppose as a prominent anti-reductionist _and_ rationalist Gould was pretty keen not to have anti-reductionism lumped in with "woolley headed mysticism".

Aye, right enough, a bawheid thet widnae gie ye a square go, ah bet yees.

Wull, ye ken me, ahm no the typae c*nt goes lookin' for fuckin' bother like…

Auld not-so-reekie ?

May be misremembering but I think it's actually a review of "The Turning Point" in "An Urchin in the Storm" ? Agreed though, good essay (as were most of his - I partly disagree with his anti-reductionist stance but Stephen Jay Gould could write, for sure).

The great thing about sticking with every episode is the first season finale lands a bit harder but it definitely starts off as a quite typical CBS procedural (a good one, with a decent premise and interesting characters but still…). From season 2 it really gets going though.

Cheers for the info. Think i'll try to track down a US edit then, sounds like it might be interesting to compare and contrast the two.

"Porno" is the jumping off point, from what I remember of the book (admittedly not much except that it wasn't very good) the film is pretty different. And i'd recommend "Trainspotting" BTW (the book I mean).

Done deliberately to take the piss in fact, sort of a punkish nod to what the characters might call it (think he mentions it on Graham Norton).

I saw a clip of Ewan MacGregor talking about doing ADR for the US release and until then I didn't realise there was one. Are the differences significant (AFAIK i've only seen the UK release) ?

For myself, not really, no. The eye tends to skip ahead a bit when you read so i'd submit most people will have already seen key words before it registers that you've put "Spoiler:" in front of it (and that's a pretty key plot point).

Yeah a few reviewers seem to be expecting it to capture another zeitgeist and define another era but that's a big ask, lightning in a bottle and all that.

The UK reviews were somewhat mixed but largely much more positive than this one.

Nah, not really. I saw Trainspotting at the pictures and was right in the sweet spot for it agewise (or maybe upper end of the sweet spot) so it was a big film for me. T2 doesn't have the same impact but it's still got something to say about getting older, looking back and wondering (as well as the merits or otherwise…