The amount of cliches and cheats really do take me out of it a bit. How many deus ex machinas have they used throughout the series? Battle of the Blackwater, Battle of the Bastards, Battle of Castle Black, Drogon in the Fighting Pit, Benjen rescuing Bran and this episode they used two which they've already used! It's…

At first I was skeptical mainly because I thought it was bad storytelling: a convoluted way to add a twist and a stupid lazy cheat but I am more and more sure that it is what's going to happen.

The press criticise the BBC if it makes niche programmes, expensive programmes or popular programmes.

We have such a problem with xenophobia and nationalism, I know it's only anecdotal but the amount of people that use racist language like it is still the 70s is stunning. The debate in the final couple of weeks and the immediate nationalist response after brexit was stomach turning to me.

I never thought he had any honour, he pushed a child out of window in the first episode and threatened to catapult a baby into a moat in this one. The thing that was good about that scene (and that season) was that it revealed his vulnerability and the fact that he does have some conscience, whereas before he seemed…

Wasn't the cliche scene where Jaime is vindicated the one in the bathhouse where he revealed the story about why he killed the mad king? One of the best in the series imo.

Uncircumcised cock?! Where's the glans?! I demand to see glans!

You wouldn't say jimp or jirl either though

The reissue was from this year (I think) but I spent a lot of time reading the Eightball collection put out by fantagraphics which I felt I was dragged down into for about a month. Otherwise: Woman On The Edge Of Time, Slaughterhouse 5 and Knowledge Of Angels were my favourite reads this year. Fellini, Pasolini,…

"The Be Sharps" forced me to think about it

"What do you think about the fact he raped a child?"

I definitely wouldn't say not to read it, but if I was recommending where to start to someone who was new to comics I think it's best to go straight to where the best stuff is rather than to read hundreds of pages of material where the creator is still working out their style.

My introduction to comics was Summer Blonde, David Boring and Black Hole which I nabbed off my older brother. Couldn't get much better. Watchmen, V For Vendetta and the entirety of Love And Rockets (start with The Girl From HOPPERS and Heartbreak Soup if any) are the first really great ones I bought for myself. Not…

I think the combination of it being seen as reputable, having loads and loads of thinkpieces and having an open comments section means it attracts loads of pompous keyboard warriors from all sides.

And apparently even thinking of verhoeven's version would give him a migraine. I'm a fan of the version that got made but I too would LOVE to see cronenberg's adaptation.

He's still doing his degree though so you'd assume being a restaurant manager isn't his end game.

I wouldn't say it was kitsch, there is something unironically appealing about album art, a lot of it is fantastic and more to my taste than the majority of things you would see in an art gallery. I wouldn't say i'm a design nerd but getting a mint copy repress of: an old dub album, some funkadelic LP, gives me genuine…

The playback episode "The Entire History Of You" is by some distance my favourite episode, it's perfectly pitched and the script (which is available on the DVD as a PDF for any brits or people with region free dvd capabilities) is filled with much more detail than the others which on repeat viewing become a bit…

Artificial Eye has released it and Fallen Angels on Blu-ray. I feel lucky that the UK has so many great DVD publishers, BFI just released that Herzog Blu-ray boxset, Artificial Eye just released two (count 'em, two) Truffaut boxsets and Masters of Cinema is just pure excellence, I'm working my way through the…

Clara said they were in year 8 which is 12-13 I think.