I really think the framing of solving everyone else's problems is the intent of the writers, though. I know it's hard to see from where the survivors (unfortunately, barely anyone for Joe, but Rory and Amy had a life they're ripped from anyway) stand, but in most of the fictional tropes it's not suicide so much as…

Less clever and less sure. There's a reason cops are trained to shoot centre mass. It's the closest you can come to being sure.

The way they discussed New York as perfect hunting grounds and the paradox as erasing all the NY angels—until now, I didn't think of it as saving himself. I thought he was saving the city. The sort of thing we're sad to see Buffy do, because we want her around and we want her loved ones happy—but it's a heroic call…

Is there a difference between suicide and self-sacrifice? When Sam jumped into the cage, effectively ending his life, to save the world (or Dean was going to say yes to Michael and burn out his neurons), those were just really sad things they were going to have to do in order to save some or all the people.

Unless he can shoot leftie, or got a prosthesis at some point with the fancy new technology—I'm not sure why that wasn't an option for his dumb frie...oh, right. Dumb.

It was a children's show when I was a tween in London and they were deliberately courting my age group with reading competitions (I got to see Terrance Dicks talk!). Just because New Who came back with components that still entrance me at my current age doesn't erase that from having happened, and it carries that…

Well, we have no idea in what context or environment they're wearing it. Are they with friends? Are they the kind of kids that can play this off (I wouldn't have had an issue with it—I'd only be pissed if there was something I'd wanted to be, and my parents made me be something they wanted instead)? And if they're in…

So Willis was kidnapped in China and taken to Kansas and put into a machine in a building that is built on what used to be the field? Was his best friend killing in the field too? That's where all the loopers work?

Why embarrassing? What am I missing?

If this is the most selfish thing these parents do with/to their children (and yes, this is about adult amusement, surely), they are a shining example of altruistic parenting across all generations that ever walked the planet.

I was wondering if a) that was Sonic and b) I don't have enough Sonic knowledge to properly get that. I figure double yes.

Mother-cancer is just its own sort of misery. She went undiagnosed for a year, so it was pretty serious when she finally got a competent doctor, but they all did an excellent job, and she doubled down, and her family and friends showed her how great they'd thought she'd been and stuck by her in so many ways. Horrible…

I'm not very good at doing things I don't like, and I can't work out why people do exercises they hate, but that's why I'm not fit inbetween martial arts—I've only managed to find one form of exercise I like (kettlebell—go figure...). Martial arts, even at their most extreme, were not exercise. They happened to be…

She says it was because of smoking, but that makes no sense—millions of people smoke and have at worst just compromised senses of smell. She quit 20 years ago!

My mother lost hers. She finds it frustrating, but she's not devastated. I'd think having recovered from all that completely overshadows it...that's amazing.

My mother lost her sense of smell and she can taste just fine. She works in medicine, but she doesn't have a good explanation for what's wrong with her, or how what's still right is right.

Funny thing—I think Caviezel plays a guy for whom it seems like a cheesy joke to be so badass you don't see the fight, just the bad guy coming out the window. But I haven't really bought Reese, since I find the fight choreography and stunt work a bit weak, and some of the gun handling not merely unrealistic, but the…

This is the Nightcrawler I fell for—I still haven't come to terms with the weirdly shy, coy Cummings version. He's not like the comic, and he's not like Alan—what did the script and director want?

I would like so many things so much more if they were less sweet.

I'm comfortable thinking you guys who can eat a creme egg of any colour are weird, so...yeah, it could be purple, blue, or green, it's no less appealing. But there's concomitantly no colour combination that makes it more appealing. Sugar. Gack. Unremitting.