I really liked The Gunslinger, but (recently) gave up about 1/4 of the way into Drawing of the Three. I thought the former was to the point, atmospheric, and stuffed full of cool, very poetic ideas - an ornery gunfighter chasing an evil sorcerer across a desert while time dies is just a perfect artistic idea. (one of…

I read Something Wicked This Way Comes a few weeks ago - it's fantastic.

Pokemon Go will be a good crutch for hack-writers from now on. Why does one of the characters wander off into the spooky graveyard, isolating themselves? Pokemon Go. Need some contrived tension now that the couple have finally got together? Pokemon Go. Character should just use his mobile phone to get help? 'Shit, I…

Also, the calliope music - a note on a calliope sounds like a distant scream.

Twilight Zone Senate Pod of Terror - only after the eerie build up, it gently floats you into the midst of a real-time version of Padme calling for Valorum to be removed.

Bill O'Reilly's a good match for the rancor - a slavering, spitting beast, full of directionless anger… and Jabba's sympathetic attack dog.

"…but visitors could always just hang out in the cantina and request the same song over and over."

I read an interview with her where she cleared that up - she's a niece by marriage and they don't know one another, due to a nasty family divorce. He had nowt to do with the programme surviving.

I really hated how Season 4 of Fringe semi-overwrote Season 1-3, to the point where Olivia and Walter were essentially different characters, with different - important - histories than the characters we'd been following. It was like the Star Trek reboot without the qualifier that a new timeline had been started -…

None of the British fantasy orphans I can think of are middle class - the Dursleys are, but Harry doesn't reap any benefits of that, and Sophie is an orphan who lives in an orphanage. Lyra Belacqua is a half savage aristocrat. I

I've never had a problem with evil henchman being terrible threats while also failing to harm the heroes - it's the most enjoyable compromise you can make in a situation where the heroes have to survive but the baddies have to be credible.

It's been Star Wars IV: A New Hope since 1981, and I don't think anyone had any issue with it until Lucas started tinkering in the 1990s.

It's because it's intended to do more than communicate familial relationships.

Who has he tortured? I truly can't remember. So far as I can see he's a fairly affable guy who wants to push the field of medicine, while also having some related creepy hobbies.

Fun (depressing) fact! - Spiderman '02 is, at 14, as old as Return of the Jedi was when it was special editioned, so such a a release would follow precedent.

I think Cersei is sympathetic and detestable, and I find Qyburn very likeable. I would argue the entire series has been her comeuppance, and he's sure to get a gruesome fate he doesn't really deserve.

I felt nearly as bad for Tommen as I did for Margaery, which is to say a lot -they're both fundamentally decent (Margaery's manipulative, but the two aren't mutually exclusive), and got to go out in ways that highlighted their best qualities - Margaery died having figured out Cersei's game, and was undone by the High…

The kids get taught 'Avada Kedavra' on their first day. It's an essential defence against all the other kids who know it.

…the phrase 'born in Ireland' occurs within the very next sentence.

Whenever I see something that reminds that film is coming out, I inevitably think of this joke and laugh.