I'd love to see book-faithful adaptations of each…I'm just not sure they'd work in this so-called Dark Universe. For one thing, I'd like them to be faithful to their time periods, not modernized as they seem to be doing so far with the other monster movies.

That's the interesting thing about Spinal Tap…if you listen closely to their songs, the melodies and actual musicianship are very good. It's the lyrics that are ridiculous. I think Rob Reiner was trying to convey that these are better-than-average musicians who are sabotaging themselves by trying to jump on trends…

I believe Sex With The Queen was written around the time Charles and Camilla got married, and Eleanor wrote about her reaction to it in the afterword.

It's just such a shame…Charles would have married Camilla from the get-go and everyone would have been so much happier…if it hadn't been for the royal family's insistence that the Prince's bride just HAD to be a virgin.

I've wanted to see a multi-season cable drama about the Beatles for a long time (their story is so rich with fascinating characters and incidents that I don't think a mere biopic or miniseries could do it justice). But if that couldn't happen, maybe a season of Feud could be devoted to the breakup period, with all the…

I dunno…some sources say that Charles was willing to be faithful and make a go of it, but Diana's emotional issues made it hard on him. Not that I'm in any way excusing his own actions, but it may well be far more nuanced than "innocent victim Diana" and "rotten Charles", and I hope it's portrayed as such.

So who does it hurt?

The way I see it, the HP books, like the best children's literature, have depths and themes that adult readers can pick up on. That's the beauty of going back to children's lit as an adult—you notice things you didn't as a kid.

"I'm my own grand-pawww…"

I've never seen Jenny's story as a "punishment-for-deviating-from-the-norm" thing. Rather, I've seen it as showing what can happen if you run away from your problems instead of dealing with them. Before Forrest leaves for Vietnam, Jenny tells him "If you get into trouble, just run away." That's her whole philosophy of…

Though I had a crush on Kevin Costner when I saw it at the age of nineteen, these days I mainly like the movie for its supporting cast. Alan Rickman is a given—and isn't it interesting that his Sheriff takes on the roles of both Guy of Gisbourne and Prince John in more traditional tellings of the tale? But I also love…

Exactly. I've heard it said that one way to ensure a character is NOT funny is to designate said character as comic relief. Too often, a writer falls into the trap of making the "comic relief" character TELL the audience he's funny, rather than simply acting naturally and letting humor grow out of the character and…

In 1999, when they were first throwing around the idea of Leonardo as an older Anakin, I wasn't crazy about the idea. I liked Leo and Titanic, but I wasn't sure that he would be the best Anakin. Now that I know what we actually GOT and now that Leo has proved himself as an actor, I'm wondering if it wouldn't have been…

Right. I didn't even consider that "the President's daughter" could have been Susan. I thought that (a) she could have been someone the young Doctor just seduced/had a fling with, (b) his "stealing" of her could have had no romantic implications at all, or (c) she was his eventual wife and Susan's grandmother. (I like…

Beautifully put!

I like to think of them as parallel universes, with some elements in common (hence the reference to Eight's companions). From what I understand, there are also contradictions between the two. If they're parallel universes/timelines, they both "count", but the TV writers aren't straitjacketed by what happens in the…

I agree. Some complain (as the review above stated) that the episode didn't focus enough on the Gallifrey stuff. But there have also been complaints that every season finale has been dealing with epic, "the-universe-is-in-danger" stuff, making it seem repetitive. This, although there WERE implications for the universe…

I was never crazy about that idea either. Leaving aside the concept of the Looms, which I'm afraid I never got behind, the "Other" theory seems to remove agency from the Doctor. It's more impactful to me if he's just an ordinary Time Lord who decides for himself to reject his society's beliefs than if he's gotten it…

For me it will always be the big moment from The King's Speech.

It wasn't so much the going-away party scenes that made me cry as a kid—it was the scenes with Lila. I guess it was because deep down, I knew that Snoopy would end up back with Charlie Brown in the end. But this also meant that this sad little girl in the hospital, who'd never had any say about giving up her dog in…