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I understand the facetious title, and it's what that moron deserves, but it didn't indicate how serious this matter is, given that it a) wasn't obviously about Trump, and b) wasn't obviously about a ban as opposed to an opinion. I essentially learned about the tweets from a later article and backtracked my way here

THIS. I have very little need for professional grade art programs, but I have a continuing use for a program that allows me to make basic image edits quickly and for a variety of formats (or just to copy into a more elaborate piece of software). Don't take away my MSPaint, Microsoft!

HOLY SHIT. I was expecting hyperbole. That is an insane number of Westerns.

I think it's the James Blunt effect - everything about him is just kind of blandly pleasant and he's good-though-not-great at what he does, which seems to rile people up more than if he were either brilliant or awful as a person or musician.

It's a good phrase fragment but two words hardly validate or excuse the laziness evident throughout Anderson-Lopez's work. In fact, that phrase only stands out because the rest of it is so bland; no-one points out how good the phrase 'Even the sturgeon an' the ray They get the urge 'n' start to play' is, because the

Ah, I heard the reference to being the Prime Minister but I didn't get the meaning. Complaint withdrawn (though my other complaints I think hold true)

So it's pretty clear they shouldn't have announced that the Mondasian Cybermen and John Simm would be back, since the entire episode was leading up to their reveal, making a lot of the episode just a waiting game (without enough substance to really make it worth the wait).

The episode struck me as copying Red Dwarf in other ways, primarily the time distortion; while touched on in the episode 'White Hole', the second RD novel 'Better Than Life' has a sequence where the ship is heading towards a black hole which covers a lot of the time distortion stuff here, as the characters at one end

I loved the twist, largely because I think it was so well set up not just in the film but in the media surrounding the film - we knew the legendary comics name 'Mandarin'. We knew he was played by a hell of an actor. And he narrated the trailer as several other villains had done in superhero/sci-fi movies at the time

Not to mention that a lot of the bits cited as 'obviously Wright' were in fact Reed's input (like Luiz's explanations).

Surprised not to see a comparison to Mike in the season premiere taking apart his car to find the tracker.

That young Chuck at the start was spot on - he had the intonation and mannerisms absolutely down. I hope we see more of him in the future(/past).

I think it's great that the show has such confidence from Netflix that they can plan really long term stories… but the downside is there is much less impetus for them to find actual resolutions, knowing the stories can be returned to at a later point. Season two is absolutely the strongest so far for that - while Vee

I always thought if they were to go for a followup series involving the offspring more heavily they should call it 'Friends and Family'.

That would have been a much better route for them to take. Admittedly it would have smacked a bit of The Curse of Fenric, but it would have made sense here, and been more satisfying and conclusive than 'the power of love'.

True, but we didn't see her in that episode; the notion of her being essentially imagined based on the photos of her wasn't set up in the slightest.

I like Gatiss as a person - he seems very amiable and passionate for the show and its fans - and some of his non-Who (or at least non-canon) material has been brilliant. But unfortunately his record on the actual show has been only one distinctly good episode, 4 meh episodes and three pretty darn bad episodes. Every

Wheel of morality, turn turn turn, tell us the lesson we should learn:

It would have been much better if that had been set up earlier in the season - sure, we knew she missed her mother, but the idea that she'd created a version of her mother, in part based on the photos the Doctor arranged for her, was totally new to this episode, so it felt incredibly artificial. We've had six episodes

Some horrendously bad dialogue (typical for Whithouse, but some of his worst in Who since School Reunion), and some horrendously bad direction and editing (I counted at least two transitions where the Doctor changed the direction he was facing during the edit). Also, when it cut to Bill, the Doctor and Nardole outside