If anything, Rian Johnson deserves his hack status for that utterly ridiculous bomber scene at the beginning of TLJ. Oh and the similarly snail-paced Star Destroyer chase that went on for most of the film.

Practically a hamlet in Chinese terms

That was my winning strategy for the original Microprose Formula One game on the Atari ST. The only F1 game to make driving around Monaco fun (albeit in the wrong direction)

Not to derail the subject but you strike me as the sort of person who regularly clicks on those ‘meet hot single girls In your area’ banner-ads on porn sites.

Like most people on this site I’m definitely a wanker

Re: The Killers ‘All These Things That I Have Done’

I don’t know why - given such strong competition - but that’s still my favourite Simpson’s episode to this day.

Quantum Leap managed it week in/week out!

Not as strong an episode as the first unfortunately but the episode title (and closing soundtrack) at least gives me an excuse to throw in one of my favourite pieces of weird trivia:

Rockstar did it first in GTA V

Good point re: the ‘World’ championship but there are ways around it. If they go ahead with the Turkish GP, the circuit is on the Asian side of Istanbul. So that’s another continent covered. Also we’ve already had 2 races in Great Britain which is famously no longer ‘part of Europe’.

I loved it although the monsters at the end kept reminding me of ‘the Butts’ from season 1 of Doom Patrol. 

If you’re going to quote Metallica I can think of at least two songs that are far more appropriate. Admittedly ‘Call of Ktulu’ (sic) is an instrumental so not a great one for quoting but ‘The Thing That Should Not Be’ is also all about everyone’s favourite flying octopus god and even goes as far as using Lovecraft’s…

By a country mile the most offensive case of fridging is Indiana Jones.

I was at a crazy beach party with 15,000 people on Kho-Pha-Ngan in Thailand. Given Thailand’s very lax attitude to health and Safety, everyone was off their faces and armed to the teeth with the kind of fireworks that could be classified as Surface to Air Missiles. It certainly felt like an apocalypse!

*ALL* F1 drivers are tax dodgers. Why do you think they’ve all been living in places like Monaco and Switzerland since time began? And fair play to them. Their workplace is a different country every other week and the their paymasters are similarly multi-national so who’s to say which governments should be the…

Hey whilst we’re on the subject of POC Voice roles, what’s everyone’s consensus on ‘Panthro’ from Thundercats? If that role had gone to a white voice actor, would that be seen as stealing a POC actor’s job? I mean it’s an alien feline-humanoid that’s based on a cat that’s noted for having jet black fur but you still…

While there’s certainly the argument that he’s the ‘exception that proves the rule*’  Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince (James Avery) was Shredder in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles AND Fang in the english dub of Fist Of The North Star. That’s two Japanese characters being voiced by a (very large)…

As far as I’m aware psychopathy is a recognised mental illness and while Mads Mikkelsen did a passable imitation, I feel that its important both in terms of representation and to help erase the stigmas around mental illness that they should have cast someone from the psychopathic community - preferably one with…

I’m going to download Carrion. I just can’t wait to see Barbara Windsor’s ‘lovely jubblies’