An experimental drug, for which there's a handy manual within arms reach, that once administered didn't have the 2nd air tactical HALO drop onto the island? The problem with such high stakes is that every "dun-dun-dunnnnnn" moment has to be balanced against those high stakes. But with this, they didn't even check in.

True, but a photograph in a file (which Bond could even callously put aside) or a hand on her head when the helicopters were coming in for a landing would have but a full stop on it... he would have had some emotional reaction to it, whether good or bad.

If you take that as the assumption, which I'm not doubting, then if one compares it to Casino Royale, there was at least they dealt with the death of the horse-riding Bond girl rather than not even considering it noteworthy here.

A good, possibly very good movie. The second act was a little irksome, though. It felt like the movie stopped (after the "radio" moment), and then another reel from a different movie was attached. I found myself ask myself, did I miss something? Both halves were fine, but there was a lack of flow between the two. …

That ain't saying much! :)

While still being the one show this season with the greatest promise and delivery by a country mile, there are still niggles. The biggest is Barrowman. He's just a guy stating lines. There is nothing about him which says anything other than "Hi, I'm John Barrowman; you may remember me from such shows as Doctor Who and…

That wasn't my point. I was focusing on British society, not American. The "just being quiet about it" is a country mile away from my point. But, then, your statement would imply that you want the characters in the TV shows to be known by race and not "just be quiet about it", which would be the opposite of what the…

Yes, but do you think that might have more to do with the fact that the characters in British programs (from Doctor Who to Luther) don't see the race. They don't identify the characters by the race or by a specifically racially-charged background. For example, a black character isn't a black character. They're a…

tru dat

Very true. As Comedian Frankie Boyle has said "Why is the British Museum filled with all this stuff from other countries? Gun beats spear!"

Slingers? Not getting the reference. Did I typo again? :)

They are ecologically friendly unemployed, squatting pests from immigrant stock... despite claims to the contrary, Britian was the original melting pot, not the US, and (with a expected modicum of anti-immigrant sentiment - oh to be Irish in England in those days - good times ;P ), there was, until recently, no real…

I don't anything offensive in it... yet. It just looks boring.

I assume you mean Back to the Future III. But, at least we can agree that your definition is significantly flawed and does not define anything. :)

Adding a SF element does not make something SF. Non-SF things can have SF elements. Look at the abundence of normal shows which have mystical or fantastical or horror elements, but they are not considered those genre.

Someone else put the list together. Ask CJA. She concurred the (approximate) year.

/le_grumble. You said "it's SF, and has been SF since last year". I said "well, no, it was slightly SF because of the use of the machine magical element, but S1 was pretty much the Dark Knight (which isn't really SF, more crime thriller) and only now with this emergence AI schtick is it going comic book SF."

Have goatie, will ascend! :)

It's been sitting in his pocket for god knows how long, as they pass old devices of different sorts (they have a fondness for gardening in cars, for some reason), so if that were the case (if the button was a hair trigger), then they'd be setting it off all over the place.