He has leukemia, which he also suffered through in childhood. In the "previously" clip, we hear him saying "This is the story of a child who had leukemia and survived. Then he had to choose whether he has been blessed or cursed." [paraphrased] Which, of course, is also a metaphor for not being taken in The Sudden…

That said about pronouncing names, I'm pretty sure I'm misspelling "Eccleston"! But that is a whole other problem!

I usually don't even notice when British actors do American accents and I've never complained about one before. But the "Law-rie" drawl just sticks out like a sore thumb. I feel bad for Eccleston and can relate because I'm terrible at imitating accents (luckily I'm not an actor) - though I can usually get people's…

Right?! And the symbol for the religion is a historical instrument of torture and death! Couldn't they have come up with a better go-to symbol, like that fish people have on their cars? Then again, the Catholic Church has always been more about hell and fear (and control and power) than kindness and love, despite what…

It's a little thing, but it really bugs me whenever Eccleston pronounces Laurie, "Laaw-rie" instead of "Lor-ie". The character, Nora, is Matt's sister, but she doesn't have the odd American accent Eccleston puts on. You would think that the show would have gotten him a vocal coach to help him sound like Nora (sorry,…

I don't think this qualified as a bottle episode. There were multiple sets and new characters. Otherwise… yeah.

Dollhouse was the most existentially horrifying show, IMO. It took rewatching it in a binge to make me realize it, but damn the concepts in the show freak me out! Luckily it is science fiction with little basis in reality, but still….

But if she was never real, than who ended up dead embedded in the wall? I could totally believe that Lenny was a creation of David's, but she had corporeal form.

Didn't Michael Keaton do an entire (awful) movie about recording videos for the child he would die before knowing?

It's possible that if Sherlock hadn't figured out that Mary was pregnant at the wedding and told a very happy John the news, Mary wouldn't have gone through with it (or told John she'd had an abortion). Especially after she found out about CAM having her secrets and subsequently shooting Sherlock. At that point she…

If anyone still has this episode on their DVR, could you rewatch the first seconds of the first scene (the little girl on the airplane), right after the girl notices everyone else is asleep and says, "Mummy?" and the camera pans back, take a good look at the people seated in the row behind her? I'm pretty sure it's…

Martin Freeman discusses it in an interview somewhere (The Guardian maybe?). He said it was really hard to do and not go overboard (which may be one reason he kept his face down). The sound he made was not in the script - he ad-libbed it. As far as what he was drawing on, he just had to imagine Amanda, his partner of…

You don't think Gatiss planned "Robots of Sherwood" to have a significant effect on the overall storyline of Doctor Who? ;>

And why did the Ambassador being held hostage say, "I have Ammo," as if that was something that would help them out of their situation?

John isn't "leading her on" because he suspects she has some nefarious intention in flirting with him. He's genuinely flattered and his ego (and libido) is pumped from the attention. He's a sleep-deprived new father with a wife that has a whole exciting secret life that he can never know about (not to blame Mary at…

There was a trend this year of shows about abductees returning after disappearing years before. This show (obviously), the very well done "Thirteen" (also broadcast in the US on BBC-A), The Family (which was the worst in prime-time network drek) and the comedy, The Unbreakable Kimmy Shmit. Actually, Stranger Things…

@Girard, The only thing that would have made the ending more frustrating would have been having Starbuck appear and then vanish with no explanation.

Yeah, Felix being in on it with Ford makes some sense, but you would think that Ford would "hire" or replace a tech that was actually a host rather than rely on Felix, a human. It was hilarious when Felix found out Bernard was a host and had a moment of existential doubt before Maeve set him straight, but it still…

There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about Maeve's story. Maeve was programmed by Ford to do everything she did (assuming some of improvisation …. all the hosts would need the ability to adapt to situations that the guests, or in this case, staff, present) up until she got on the train. I think she was…

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