The Others is a film that I've never really rated above 'OK', but which is in my good books anyway for providing one of my favourite memories of my late father in law. A man who once, without a trace of malice, opened a conversation with: "Have you seen that film, The Others? It's great. Turns out in the end they're…

I don't much like it either. I don't *hate* it, but I heartily agree with your last sentence.

She went undercover for a while at a McDonalds analogue in one of the later series, and wasn't she always trying to get sent to cover anything political?

Re-watched the Titanic episode of Newsradio literally yesterday. I'd remembered it as being a real clunker (and as suggesting that the massive drop in quality in series 5 would have happened even without Phil Hartman's death) but it was actually really enjoyable, and crazy dark (to the point that watching it knowing…

The 'fog that turns people inside out' ending of Treehouse of Horror V freaked me the hell out the first few times I saw it, and I was an adult.
(Hell, it still makes me a bit uncomfortable if I'm honest and that's after twenty years of reruns).

The Brian and Michael song is always what I think of - then get earwormed with - whenever somebody references the Status Quo song. I suspect I am not the UK's only sufferer of this horrible affliction.

No ham for you, Hugo.

Captain Scarlet scared the ever loving shit out of me as a kid. Even now, thinking 'this is the voice of the Mysterons', is making me edgy.

In fairness, Delany did straight up say years back that he wasn't planning on writing 'Splendour and Misery' any more. And as excuses go, the fact that society has changed to the point where the novel he was planning on writing can't exist any more is a decent one.

Oh definitely. Personal favourite is probably the Diana Dors one, but of course the one everyone always remembers is Two Faces of Evil (the doppelgänger one) which is crazy disturbing.

It was on ITV, at the time our only television channel funded by adverts and so very much viewed as the BBC's dirty whore of a cousin by the public. It embraced this, geared itself towards populism and spectacle  and produced some wonderful, wonderful things.

I'd happily say Joe Hill is (so far) a better writer of fiction than Stephen King. Less plot driven, 'better' prose style (or certainly a prose style that I get more out of reading). His recurring tropes seem less glaring, too. Though obviously that could just be because his body of work is so much smaller.

I love the av club, but damn it. If you don't stop referring to every working class English accent as cockney I'll, christ, I don't know. Keep getting annoyed at it?

Mango chutney and cheese on toast. Seriously. Just watch yourself though as it can get super-heated.

It's a pun on 'edible panties', no? I fucking love punning episode titles though, so bring 'em on.

Hallo from the future! Despite the length of time that's passed I feel compelled to reply in sheer relief at finding somebody else who doesn't like Tree Trunks. She's a dickhead, and not an enjoyable one like Lemongrab.

Wow, seriously? 

I think it's more that the, as you say relatively few, public statements of the view have been a bit of a last straw. I've been in fandom  20+ years and never known a time when it wasn't an annoyingly widespread attitude.

My real name is Rappers D Light, so there's that.

My real name is Rappers D Light, so there's that.