If a kid with telepathic powers wants his parents to adopt someone, I suppose that's what happens.

Her plot would pretty much work if, like in the comics, it was explicit that the Horsemen had their minds warped by Apocalypse, but that's not really there.

It's going to be a TV series — there's an announcement for the main cast already,

It feels well past time for a story-based teaser for Avatar 2 — I think part of the reason for the snark is that the pitch has been confined to "You loved Avatar!" and "Cameron takes big commercial risks and succeeds" for so very long now.

Also you can tell people taking the high road that you'll get to Scotland afore them.

No, it's the TV series that came first, then the book (released alongside the show), the radio play was a lot later.

It's a great way of operating appliances from a different part of the country, especially the ones that are really only any use to you when you're in the same room as them. Also, there's the ones which are helpfully designed to not work, or not let you stop them, if there's an internet connection problem.

A lot of the ways TV shows are unrealistic involve cutting out the slow bits of life — watching characters end their phone calls properly falls under that, but the size of characters' homes doesn't.

Yeah, but after Shadow's arc in season 9 it was about time to call it a day.

FAKE NEWS SPREAD BY THE FAIL-ING DOC-TOR! EX-TER-MIN-ATE! SAD!

Nardole?

Lot of discussion round the Clara Mystery seemed to want to solve it as an even more complicated version of the Amy one (to the point of ignoring the few actual clues), when it was an attempted subversion.

I don't remember finding Ghost Light difficult as a kid, but that might have partly been due to accepting complexity and nonsense alike.

UK TV has had much more of a "new set of episodes when we can get everyone together" approach rather than US TV's "every September until we're cancelled" one. Sherlock's what happens when it's difficult to get the key people, though I think Moffat Who's delays may have been more influenced by some chaotic production…

If they were Warner Brothers ones, then this is pretty much always true.

Channel 4's not the BBC, it's one of the more major ad-funded channels.

No, it's because there's less stuff around for Black Bolt to break.

It's also a Chris Claremont running gag.

Not The Nine O'Clock News (early 80s sketch show) seemed to be dropping a hint even back then: https://youtu.be/kTBrY_Uterk — at about the end, 2:35 or so.

Martin Amis' reputation is built on writing great sentences, but I think that hides a few weaknesses at the plot/theme/character levels.