I think 'It Follows''s rules are - bar the bit where the initial guy is confused in the cinema, which could be explained away easily enough - air-tight. It doesn't deserve to be labelled fuzzy just because some people have nitpicked it.

Yeah! I think I'm fairly good at following things and getting dialogue, but there have been times - particularly during the Chi-Yoh episode - where I've been completely fucking lost.

I disagree, and, as a big Star Wars nerd, I've seen a lot of the types of things you're talking about. Making a film is necessarily very collaborative - Star Wars worked because a lot of art and sound designers, technicians, editors, and John Williams were working at the top of their game, but Lucas was the one…

Mads's usually low-key, subdued performance makes his rare moments of animation and animated happiness a billion times creepier. The look he wore as he slurped the lip is about as monstrous as I imagine the human face can look.

I spent some time during this episode thinking what the consequences would be if Alana or Jack just decided to walk into Hannibal's cell, told him to fuck off, and then shot him dead. They'd obviously get jail time for killing a prisoner, but given Hannibal's intelligence and proven ability to continue ruining things…

I'm pretty sure that was Ridley Scott's idea! Besides, we can't hold crappy but excised ideas against writers and directors.

I think Ridley Scott bears the blame for Prometheus's crappiness. Lindelof didn't write it and get Scott to shoot it: Scott developed the story with Jon Spaihts, then brought in Lindelof to make it closer to what Scott wanted. The first draft was just 'people visit the ship from Alien a few decades before Ripley and…

I think a lot of people wanted them to have been in purgatory the whole time so they could moan about having guessed it ages before.

The meme that the show has improved upon the books - all the books - in a big way has been picking up though, as if people want to rag on him while enjoying what he has created. A shoddy adaptation of Game of Thrones was possible, and the showrunners, writers, and actors deserve credit, but the stuff that's made the…

Maybe that example's isolated to Britain. Despite it getting good to very good reviews, the media/cultural narrative in the UK has it that 'The Casual Vacancy' was a terrible failure, and there was an incredible amount of cynicism about her publishing 'The Cuckoo's Calling' under a pseudonym. Cue lots of smug…

I think he's got a point. What I will vaguely define as 'the internet' seems half to only enjoy things because its waiting for them to stumble, or throw up something it can decide isn't 100% perfect compared to something that the show has done before. There are tonnes of people in nerd pop culture - Lindelof, G R R…

Anytime I eat any junk food - "I know I shouldn't eat thee…"

Oooh except that in Arrested Development, that's brilliant.

When I was younger, it really bugged me (and I suppose it still sort of bugs me) when characters would suffer horrible injuries in cartoons, like Hermes being decapitated here. I felt it was too horrific and, for some reason, it seemed to violate even Futurama's skewed sense of reality. I felt similarly about Homer…

Sabrina was an extremely popular show among a lot of my male 11-12 year old peers in late 1990s Scotland, and while Melissa Joan Hart was certainly considered attractive, I think the programme's popularity came from its imaginative sort-of-wish-fulfillment premise and its jokes. 15 years later, a good Salem quote in a…

Only Donald Trump would say he doesn't like someone, only to make sure you're clear that it's not because said person's a rapist.

I wonder if they'll make the poor staff at the inevitable Mos Eisley Cantina listen to those same two songs over, and over, and over again.

Or when Francis, looking over their yard, loudly asks no-one on particular, "Whose footprints are these?"

The stakes in Empire are largely personal, and the characters do change: Luke's grows - realising how much he has to learn, and then getting traumatised; Vader pursues his own agenda reveals his emotional vulnerability; Leia confronts her feelings about Han, letting her guard down; Han gets placed in semi-death; Yoda…

I don't think it's an insightful enough observation that it can be credited to anyone.