I would like the press to play this very straight: Obviously you didn't vote to repeal 40-odd times with no idea what you would do if the president didn't save your bacon constantly with that veto, leaving you safely in a posture-only space. Congress are not irresponsible toddlers. No, there is a plan. The president…

I watched Civil War with my daughter and her friend the other night (I have watched scattered superhero movies, but not the one that set up this one), and the thing where Cap puts his faith in individuals, not institutions or the nation or law or anything, and hey, the Winter Soldier may kill tons of people when…

Lucifer is interesting to me because my husband likes it (we're watching S1, after he saw a couple of eps on a plane) and it largely leaves me cold. Yet my impression of fandom was a lot of swooning over how sexy Satan-sans-coherent-theology is.

I wouldn't rule it out.

There are Trump voters who sincerely believe he didn't mean a word about taking away the insurance they got through the ACA. And Trump voters who believe that "repeal" sure as hell didn't mean "symbolically, but you would still be legally required to buy the same insurance, at the same or higher cost."

This is about to get interesting, because once Trump takes office he stops being all things to all supporters and his actual policies will be observed, thereby collapsing the wave function.

But then the bf should have explained that his cousin was unstable and this sort of diatribe was carefully shrugged off for the sake of harmony, because people did love his mom. Which can be price-of-admission stuff—most normal people make some accommodations for social harmony over logic—or it can be 'finally someone…

This was said by Baulderstone in the previous episode thread, re the canon stories:

Sadly, caller gets no originality points for "My partner cheated on me so we opened the relationship so it wouldn't be cheating and immediately they started breaking all the new rules. It's like it's only fun if they feel they're betraying me."

Dan wonders why she can’t do the confronting herself now.

Maybe they secretly did sex work? I would expect "I'm the social media ninja" to send senior management screaming from the elevator.

Only to eventually conclude "It should be one jot higher/lower."

He was mostly helping ordinary people with their problems… Ultimately the stories told more about the people Holmes was working for or investigating, and the society the they lived in.

If one's mocking banter is fast-paced enough, it can stop bullets.

As originally introduced, she could have stuck around for many seasons and been the motivation for some sort of growth for Sherlock, as to maintain his relationship with Watson he would need to accommodate an expanding world. For a story that keeps insisting it's "about a man, not mysteries" it sure doesn't want that…

After the way they resolved Sherlock's 'death' on that roof, they have no one else to blame for people's refusal to believe they killed off the character. Including having John witness the death and be crushed, et cetera and so on.

That's been my problem with the series for a while. Once you think "Wait, that explanation isn't jaw-dropping brilliance—it's stupid" it gets really hard to hoist the disbelief back up there. (Specifically, the S3 villain kidnapping Watson and putting him in a bonfire to test whether Sherlock would lift a finger to…

It can be two things!

An ongoing problem with shows that pull the faked-death trope—insisting ever after "no no this one is real, we totally mean it, no take-backsies" rather robs the scene of pathos.

New Years Eve YouTube offered up a Great British BakeOff Christmas special, through which I discovered a season of The Great British Bake Off that I'd missed (I had thought 3 was just a celeb fundraiser, but there's a real one). So thus far 2017 is making a great first impression.