The Doctor, Romana 1 and 2, Nyssa, River Song (does she count as an alien? that one’s tricky), Turlough . . . 

When do we get to those horrible CGI monkeys from the vine swinging scene in Crystal Skull?

I hugely admire Moore but Jerusalem was a brutal marathon of a read. Some of the literary pastiches are quite clever (including a Joyce riff) but I couldn't tell you what the book was "about" except for some wild visions and a weird grabbag of characters.

That 4 made me so happy. A Marvel universe without Ben Grimm just feels wrong. 

She and Fricker are great in that movie.

The Guardian piece is incredibly upsetting to read. Simply monstrous behavior. 

It is a crazy achievement, though helped by the fact that the movie is like 70 minutes long and has maybe 8 minutes of the new giant ape. It’s a little like if Spielberg made the first 85% of The Lost World about all of the lawsuits InGen is facing after Jurassic Park. 

I genuinely enjoy the first movie, which is dumb fun up to the ludicrous reveal of what’s actually going on (it sort of feels like a no-gore early Saw movie). 

The pacing was bizarre. Some people were on just long enough that you could take in the picture and the name, some people went by so fast that you couldn’t do both (I didn’t catch Kelly Preston, for example, until I re-watched it at half-speed). What a strange, disrespectful choice. 

Hoping they play “Jaja Ding Dong” instead.

Andra Day, The United States vs. Billie Holiday. There’s no bad winner in this category. But I think Day is electrifying in an only so-so movie. That scene with her in the hospital telling him that his grandkids will be singing “Strange Fruit” and then her laugh - sick, worn, but defiant - is incredible. And she makes…

The opening scene is odd. It’s not only a fairly solid tribute to old martial arts movies, it’s really visually striking and beautifully lit. Then the rest of the movie is shot in the flattest, dullest way possible. There had to be a way to make that fighting pit set look less like a fake rock set from the original…

ER always danced on that edge of the characters’ lives becoming too damn relentless, however well-acted they were. Susan and her sister in the early seasons are a prime example of that. 

The second season of Penny Dreadful is my favorite season of TV ever and she is a big part of why. Smart, sexy, charismatic. 

I’ve really been impressed with Goranson on this show. I always thought Becky was kind of whiny but she’s developed her own ironically upbeat/defeated comic tone that’s pretty funny. 

What a ridiculous thing to say. People have all sorts of obstacles and challenges to face when coming out and some people simply have realizations later in life. There should be no universal standard for when it is “brave” to come out.

The children's program award went to We Are the Dream, about kids at the MLK oratory fest. An incredibly moving film. 

Didn't Indy get married in the last movie? Please don't kill off Marion between movies. 

This show just isn't my thing but I admire Till for being honest about his mental health issues related to the toxic environment. 

Oklahoma did fine with the scissor tailed flycatcher until they put a version on their license plate that looks like the mockingjay from The Hunger Games.