McHattie is fine if you need a bad guy for an episode or two, but he just doesn't have the charisma, or skills to make up for what so far has been a pretty underwhelmingly written and designed bad guy. The show has had far more interesting recurring characters played by journeyman-actors, than Westmoreland. His look…

I wonder where he got the crews to man his massive armada, is there simply no one at home on the Iron Islands at the moment?

Saw someone tweet it was 'the Broadchurch lady' before I had read the news, and my first thought was 'Colman, yes!'
But she has been great in so many things, it would be unfair to let Olivia Colman have every good part on British television.

The issue at hand is a new study that released a first draft which does suggest that the increased minimum wage has hurt workers, through cut hours, etc. Problem is that it’s a first draft, and the whole methodology is questionable. Their point of comparison might be off, so it’s a bit hazy at the moment what actually…

Yeah, that was a lovely little homage.

I was in high school when it came out, meaning I wasn't that discerning, and tv in Europe in the nineties was a little behind, so it never felt like it was a special opportunity for me.
Last time I saw it I could see how creaky it was, and the TNG movies suffer from having to conform to the norms of action movies,
but…

We'll all be unhappy forever if we're going to compare things to what they could hypothetically be.
Yes, of course there was an opportunity for there to be a magnificent TNG movie, but not in the reality where Stewart and Spiner had to be kept happy, Berman was in charge of the whole thing, etc. The problem with those…

Insurrection benefits from the cast knowing exactly how to play the thing, some nice locations, F. Murray Abraham being a pro, and a perfect Jerry Goldsmith score.
It's basically just a perfect two part-episode.

On a tv budget there wouldn't have been a dunebuggy chase, that bumps up the quality by at least a decimal point.

On the D&D character spectrum Allison and Rachel fill in the lawful good, and evil boxes, respectively.
Season 1 Elena would have been chaotic evil, vs Sarah's chaotic good.
But if Rachel were ever able to let go of her issues she and Allison would get along really well, fundamentally they want things the same way.

Yeah, I'm very thankful they haven't embarrassed themselves with a 'fat' clone. Tony was bad enough.

Possibly that's just his English inflection? But between the shaggy hair, the shuffling walk and the odd humour I had a hard time thinking anything but 'ZATHRAS!'.

The disguise even looked like Zathras!

The creative difference is that the studio has this vision of the movie that does not include the original directors.

Yes, but this is about watching the show in a larger context. Fuller seems pretty aware of these things generally, but that doesn't give the show a pass when they repeat certain tropes. I think to a part of the audience those things stick out, and we can talk about the specifics of the show, the reasons for why this…

Yes, but how often do you see decomposing white girls, compared to the what black women actually face in this country?
It's about how she's treated as a character, we see things from Laura's perspective, she gets to tell us how she feels, what she wants. Bilquis doesn't get that, we are told what happens to her,…

Yeah, I'm hoping that Fuller and co know what they're doing and can take it in a direction that either comments on this stereotype, or makes the character more than just the body of a black woman with someone else's voice over.
As a goddess she may be an avatar of female sexual power, and the needs of the story and the…

I always pictured Christina Hendricks, but Kristen Chenoweth worked perfectly for the show's conception of Eostre.

Whether you like the show or not, it's become undeniable that Fuller has a style that works for him. He's taken Gaiman's novel and made it his own entirely. I found this first season somewhat frustrating, sometimes I can happily go along with the ride, at other points I think it dragged a little too much. I think the…

The problem with this question is that it's often hard to tell if a composer just got lazy and took an idea from an existing piece, or if the director got too attached to his temp tracks and told the director to write something just like that (For example Sam Raimi telling Danny Elfman to write something just like a…