The show is definitely more interesting than the premise would suggest. The religious response is either: “this was the Rapture, and we are the ones who are left”; “this wasn’t the Rapture, many of the Disappeared were awful people”; and finally “This was the end of the world; people should be far more freaked out; and…

The USA and Russia are geographically huge countries with more dispersed targets, so the explosions/fires would be less concentrated.

“Princess Leia said she’s “very relieved to hear that no one was hurt,””

Well she’s being “blue” cos she is sad that her boyfriend dumped her for a completely different astronaut, and she’s pale because she’s enraged cos her boyfriend dumped her for a completely different astronaut.

It could be that the diaper stuff isn’t true, like a cop’s exaggeration that grew with the story. Like, if that was the one thing she denied (“Sure, I was going to torture my love rival with a drill, but no way did I wear a diaper”) then maybe she’s telling the truth about it.

Why didn’t they just call the character “Dot” then?

I agree. The BBC killed off the third series, partly because it was so expensive (for the time), but mostly because the BBC (Michael Grade) hated all forms of science fiction. He killed off Doctor Who a few years later.

Well on the face of the outline above, it would appear that the noteworthy female role is to be a victim, in order for the men to have something to react to. These days we prefer heroines with a bit more agency than that.

Surely she would just snap their necks with a slightly bored expression if they tried anything untoward.

For a brief happy moment, I was hoping this was going to be an adaptation of the sci-fi trilogy “The Tripods”, which is probably due a reboot in the internet age. What the Earth is like after the “Martians” win.

We only do that because we assume you chaps would be disappointed otherwise. Most Brits were never upper class, nor the direct servants of the same. But if historical adventures are to carry any kind of realism, those are the sort of people who would have zany adventures. Everyone else was too busy shovelling shite.

Boris’ messy hair is a deliberate affectation.  He has been known to carefully muss it up immediately before a TV interview.

The drama in the TV show (which we got in the UK, and is probably where it sank into Johnson’s consciousness) comes from the meek Banner going to lots of lengths not to get upset, and not to have his secret unmasked. The tension was about when he would inevitably flip out, and how the sneaky reporter would be…

Trump’s Dyson sphere.  With the sun on the outside.  Don’t worry, we can burn coal and trees for light.

“An amateur astronomer may have detected an object from outside our solar system” 

Pro EEC, and the free trade it brought. Less so the EU, which is a more openly political enterprise. She was quite notably out of step with a number of other European leaders, but as long as the money kept going won’t and communism was kept at bay, who cares?

Look, I’m not blind to what’s going on here, but I cannot authorize that kind of action, I’m sorry.

Citation needed

But will it be completed on schedule?

“Yeah, I was wondering why that scene was so prominent in the trailers yet missing from the actual movie.”