I didn't find Deep Breath awful (a couple of the Doctor's scenes are approaching brilliant), but I'd struggle to qualify the episode as a whole as 'good'. I thought Into The Dalek was half great (the bits with the Doctor and the Dalek) and half awful (the bits with Clara and Danny). Robot of Sherwood I found to be…

Thanks for everything, Chris - I look forward to whatever you do next!

Series 8 is well worth checking out, though it has a rough start. The first few have their moments but tend not to hold together completely. Then it starts to really build with a string of terrific episodes in the middle. There's one duff episode at the end of the run, but the finales themselves have been divisive - I…

The second half of the season is better than the first half.

I seem to be pretty alone in disliking The Sign of Three the most. I found that to be quite intolerable fanwank, with no actual drama taking place until literally 75 minutes into the episode. If it was a 45 or even 60 minute show (with a larger episode order), taking 5/6 of an episode out to indulge in the characters…

A lot of my friends (both geeks and non-geeks) enjoyed series 3 as much as series 1 and 2. I didn't (and I'll happily discuss why once you're caught up), but I still feel like you should carry on, there's a good chance you'll find as much to love in it. Try not to let preconceptions colour how you receive it, it's the…

True. I was mainly thinking of earlier examples, but the traffic jam is a brilliant twist on the same idea. Almost Hitchcockian.

It's one of my favourite episodes of the show, but I'm extremely grateful that there weren't many other episodes like it.

It's also omitting important (and earlier) British examples. Doctor Who did a bottle story over two years before Star Trek even began, with the two episode serial The Edge of Destruction (also known as Inside The Spaceship) filling out a 13 episode order using only the TARDIS set and only the four principle cast…

Let's also remember that he (as Andy) requested the return of Power Rangers about a month before the remake movie was announced.

Oh, I don't NEED an Origins trilogy - it works well as a lone exploration of the pre-Asylum 'Arkham' world, and (despite my wariness of more Joker material after he monopolised Asylum and City) I felt it served as a terrific beginning to Batman and the Joker's conflict, which of course gets paid off in Asylum and…

What specs does your PC have, may I ask? Or at least, is yours a proper gaming PC or a more basic laptop/desktop?

I'd be happy seeing a completed Origins trilogy, as I thoroughly enjoyed Origins itself. Especially if they can get some decent Robin, Batgirl and Suicide Squad action into them.

I really liked Origins, perhaps more than City (which I thought was excellent). Possibly part of that is that when I was midway through playing Origins I went to Chicago for the first time - while it was snowing - and was convinced I'd landed in the game. That was awesome.

Exactly. Change his ethnicity, play around with his sexuality, heck, make him female if you like, but making him gorgeous is just wrong.

Apologies, amended.

This is also probably true. Like I said, it's not a perfect solution, but at least changing some of the characteristics (with a view to making the changes permanent) would attach the diversity to the cultural cachet in a way that creating new characters wouldn't.

I think it's a great ideal to hold, but it's not possible to create equality within that diversity when all of the straight white male characters are the ones with the decades of cultural recognition. That cachet of having 60plus years of history belongs pretty exclusively (with a few exceptions) to straight white…

I recently had a conversation with an aunt who's always been very close to us, basically part of our immediate family, and suddenly, in lieu of pretty much nothing, she said something staggeringly racist. Well, to be honest it wasn't really that bad, but it was staggering to me, as it seemed completely unprecedented,…

"Then again, if you pay Emerson $40,000 a year to get a degree in something people have been teaching themselves how to do for free for decades, maybe the joke’s on you."