I was in Berlin a couple of weeks ago for the first time. I was surprised - and encouraged - by how open and honest the city is about its past. So many museums and exhibitions about WWII (and the Cold War), acknowledging the atrocities committed over the last century by a large proportion of the city's leaders and…

Thank you! People act like this show doesn't have massive leaps of logic. It does, it just usually doesn't matter that much.

I'd grant you he was fun for the first season, but right from the start of season 2 he became pretty unbearable to me. Ross I liked for the first three/four seasons, until Schwimmer starts screaming for laughs. And I really don't get the Ted Mosby hate; I found the other characters on that show to be way more annoying…

Most of the developments I could get behind, if it hadn't been so rushed - but Ted going back to Robyn at the end really annoyed me, just because of the number of times he'd 'gotten over' her in the previous 7 series. After that much time spent going 'And now, finally, he's over her, even more so than last time' and…

Oof. Putting anyone above JD on that list is just too harsh.

By season six Ted was the only character on that show I still liked.

Both arguably for self-defence - here he was the provocateur. The Vindicator deaths were entirely… unvindicated.

Curiously, I've had a similar grievance with Doctor Who over the last few years, particularly in series 9. On two major instances (The Witch's Familiar and The Zygon Inversion) it was revealed that the Doctor had planned everything all along, which was meant to be an indicator of how clever he was but wound up…

That's basically the reason I didn't particularly enjoy Pickle Rick (at least not by typical Rick and Morty standards) - it was doubling down on a character I don't like.

My issue with Will and Grace was usually the audience - there was some genuinely clever writing in there, some good jokes and fun character moments, but they barely registered with the audience. Make a dick innuendo or refer to Karen's breasts, however, and they're cheering for minutes on end. Maybe that'll change in…

Bees. My God.

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…