About the same as 10,000 spoons.

I'm pretty sure using it for porn is before that.

I dunno, could go either way for me. Old school sci-fi tended to think advancement would be more or less evenly spread across the technological board (e.g. if we have super advanced engines then everything else must also be super advanced). But just _assume_ for a second something like the EM-drive actually turns out…

I dunno, private or public-private partnerships in the US look pretty promising. I wouldn't be too surprised to see SpaceX put a human (back) on the moon within 10 years (or even Mars in 15-20). Whatever you think of him, Musk is a man with a mission.

Like, some kind of super Velcro you mean ?

Me too, s'where I found out the secret to all great comedy is timi.

Not if you're famous apparently.

I dunno, Moffat also consciously backed away from that after only about a season (we see it a bit at the end of S5 and then the whole of S6), it's by no means been the signature of his whole run IMO. Later 11 and the whole of 12 so far have been fairly explicitly backtracking away from the "lonely god" who sends…

Quite. The show pretty much epitomises the old (admittedly double-edged) adage, "This too shall pass".

Fantastic ? ;)

Yours of course but please use it only for good ;).

That's an inconsistency dating back to the books in fairness. In 'A Study in Scarlet' for instance Holmes claims not to even know whether the Earth orbits the Sun or vice versa because it's not relevant to criminalistics. And then goes on to appear in 56 stories and 4 novels where obscure knowledge of seemingly…

Someone up/down thread brought up the Dracula as immigrant idea fitting particularly well in a post/during Brexit UK. That might be an interesting take.

This is actually a new complaint to me. I don't mean this to be condescending but is English your first language and are you British (it's yes to both for me and i've never had any issue with understanding the dialogue in Sherlock nor have I come across anyone else that has) ?

To me yours is the best approach and one I try to cultivate myself (despite all my Who baggage ;) because the show is capable of being almost anything so putting it in your own preconceived box is just asking to be disappointed (I genuinely think the Doctor/TARDIS combination is one of the best, most flexible episodic…

Hmm. I don't know if you get how enjoyment works. I like it, that's good enough for me - I don't need to be convinced that I somehow don't _actually_ like it or like it for the "wrong" reasons (and believe me, i've watched enough frothing at the mouth ranting "reviews" of Moffat's stuff on Who to last a lifetime - if…

I've been a fan of Who for 40 ish years and in that time, depending on who you ask, every showrunner/EP/head-writer has been ruining the show. The one thing the whole fandom can agree on is that the whole fandom never agrees on anything. And there's probably some that disagree with that too ;).

Hmm, so you don't enjoy it for really smart, sensible reasons to do with screenwriting whereas I enjoy it for superficial reasons ?

I think it might come down to different people liking different things ?

Yep, certainly some missteps but on balance plenty to enjoy. The extent of the ire on here probably isn't representative of most viewers.