I thought Robert Duvall looked pretty good for his age.

The Sulaco docks at Gateway Station. Ripley, Hicks and Newt are woken up, but not before an egg has been taken off the ship, hatched and a queen is loose on Gateway. Our heroes have to stop the aliens from reaching Earth.

Blomkampf could do it as creepy CGI animation, like Beowulf.

Get your fokkin' tentacle out of my face!

Full Throttle in 1995. It's based on the true story of Sir Henry Birkin, a British race car driver of the 1920s and '30s. Atkinson underplays it well.

This is what Russell Brand has been up to lately: The 'Trews' (true news).

It's moved up from 'poor' to 'mediocre with a very good Kyle MacLachlan.' The script is better because something is now happening and some of the characters now have some agency, but it remains poorly directed.

Definite echoes of that performance in Tim Burton's Batman.

"And whose lonely grave is this?"
"Why, *yours* Ebenezer. The richest man in the cemetery!"

"most of what people complain about are things that were always part of the DNA of the series, which is an update of old B-movie serials"

The Krays is a well-written, well-directed film. The only weakness is Gary & Martin Kemp (of Spandau Ballet) who exude nil menace as the reportedly utterly terrifying Krays.

Do you suppose new scriptwriters are expected to research this stuff to some extent? That could be a hell of a bar to entry. Or do you think Moffat fills in the gaps for them? RTD always said that as an obsessive fan he had spent years working out what went into TV continuity.

If Missy did die, wouldn't she then be uploaded to the Nethersphere?

Thanks, I'll give the whole first series a try.

Here's something I'd be grateful for some opinions on: years ago, when The Shield first aired in the UK, I watched the first half-a-dozen episodes. It struck me as stupid, with an unsympathetic collection of central characters in whom I wasn't interested beyond wanting to see them be busted by Internal Affairs. I…

The Reapers appear because the second time Rose visits the moment of Pete's death she changes the event she witnessed the first time she visited, thus changing her own immediate past.

"Get in the duck!"

All the thin politicians have been got out of the way.

Russell T Davies made a good point about how a writer has to decide what is on-screen and what is off-screen, with the Time War definitely off-screen as it doesn't fit into a character-led script. Of course he then broke his own rule, but he was still right.

That's the only decent explanation for why Coulson and Mae put up with her rubbish. Even if she's the world's greatest hacker and / or an unwitting double-agent againt Rising Tide she'd still get straightened out.