Hey, she wasn't the only character being used as padding - remember the threat of Kilgrave going on hold so that Simpson could be a villain for an episode?

A reference immediately nullified by making it about Americans.

Messy. The best thing about it are the actors (who are some of the most entertaining British actors around at the moment), and they make it worth watching… although by the last series I was growing very tired of the tone and the insane yet somehow still very bland plots. Given that it was only 14 episodes in total…

Jesse, I'm right there with you; I felt that Jessica Jones made a mess of all its characters except for Jessica, Kilgrave and Luke (and sometimes Patsy), but Robyn was far and away the worst, occasionally (read: once I think?) working as a partner for Malcolm (who otherwise dropped into bland from mid-season) but the…

It's already playing with logic when he's been erased but Barry's mother still died. Given what's remained in the chronology of the current dimension I'd say it's possible there's an 'earlier in his timeline'. (I do enjoy time travel stories, but I've yet to find one that isn't a glut of inconsistencies)

And that's enough for a massive cliffhanger? No speculation, no discussion of its place in the narrative?

Sid's song is perhaps my favourite of the show so far. It's packed with such conviction, both from the production values and from Luke Youngblood's performance, it's pretty much perfect as a gag and as a musical number.

I'm not convinced you've been paying attention - not that these episodes weren't good, but what exactly made the 'detours' here more of use to the plot than the previous weeks'? Princess Jubilee has a belch that knocks Isabella's tiara off… that hardly made up for the entire pointless song that preceded it (and was…

You're quite right, I'd forgotten that. It had some very good stuff in, but I also remember it feeling like it had a lot of filler, and it felt very predictable at times (particularly with the incidents leading up to the Rage Monster). Poor is probably too harsh a word - season eight on the whole felt adequate, but…

It's a pity you missed season 5; it quickly and easily became the show's best. I also really enjoyed season 7 (though not all did) and Live Another Day, but season 8 was pretty poor and season 6 was appallingly bad.

Hail Poetry would be a terrific choice - it's big enough that everyone can just belt it out (even when drunk), but brief enough that no-one will get bored of it. Maybe a slight change of lyrics would be in order, then it'd be ideal.

Who here watches Gotham? Didn't Josh's girlfriend (attractive though she was) with glasses on look a lot like Nygma?

Definitely. It's a great, funny, weird, bizarrely (and depressingly) insightful show right from the word go.

Jerusalem is a safe choice but it's also a fine one - gorgeous words set to gorgeous music. Otherwise the most obvious traditional choices are I Vow To Thee My Country or Land of Hope and Glory, both great (although the latter's full vocal arrangement isn't very well known, and has lyrics referencing the Empire making…

I'm far too into my G&S, but the more patriotic they are (ie. Pinafore and the ending of Utopia) the less I like them. So while theoretically there's more appropriate ones, I'd be all for A Private Buffoon or When The Night-Wind Howls being the new national anthem.

It's strange; I don't actually like this show, but I can't stop watching it. I've still got no desire to watch any of it again (particularly the total mess they made of the second series) but I just need to know what the writers are going to try next.

You know, reading this comment was the first time I (consciously) realised the musical similarity between 'Off With His Shirt' and 'It's Raining Men'. I think I was so focused on the terrific lyrics that I didn't even register what the music was echoing.

I like the meta stuff (they never seem to go too far with it) but the humour I really don't like is the 'they're suggesting things from the present day, it's funny because they didn't have it then' humour. Like in season 1 you had Sid 'inventing' zips and Gareth 'inventing' the measurement of time within the same…

Why are there only four pieces anyway? Seems bizarre. Traditional Monopoly sets come with 8 tokens, and I'm sure the odd special edition I've played has had at least 6. There should be plenty of room for both Rey and Finn.

Yeah, it's light enough that I wouldn't necessarily expect a non-Brit to pick it up, plus I spend a lot of time in Bristol so I get more exposure to it than, say, 99.7% of Portal 2's audience. I think it's great, though; I love hearing regional British accents in American productions (it's kind of my favourite thing…