Planets have pretty predictable movements though. Asteroids are such an easy way to destroy life that I think the reason there’s no intelligent life out there is that they threw rocks at each other as soon as they were able to do so.

It was reported at the time that she was being paid more than Tennant in his first season. She might have negotiated more pay in her second, and I don’t think she was being paid more than Eccleston.

Go lick the Eye of Harmony

Speaking as someone who spends too much of his life on Twitter, we definitely don’t want people to go to Twitter.

Me also. Which came in handy for understanding GET OUT jokes.

The real horror is the Kinja we made on the way

“The Word for World is Forest” is more or less the basis for the Doctor Who story “Kinda” AND James Cameron’s AVATAR, so not a bad one to start with if you want to get a sense of her influence on the rest of the genre.

I’m still furious the Nobel committee ran out of eligible male writers to give it to and lobbed one at Bob Dylan instead.

Now I think about it, off-putting is a good description of his weird turn as Juliet’s brother in PSYCH.

Feels like as far as doctors for celebrities goes, Dr Spaceman from 30 Rock is barely a parody.

Terri Garr’s was up there.

It’s funny but I sort of wish Gerald Butler well, despite having little interest in his films. I guess it’s due to that magazine piece from a while back where a guy who’d never heard of him interviewed him and it made for a strangely compelling bit of journalism.

They were more or less the only large chunks of Tolkien-esque fantasy available in the time they were first published and they met a demand. The demand would later be met by far better writers.

“Famous person’s x can’t save a y SNL” - here’s an endlessly reusable template for reviewing this show.

I now have no doubt at all that you look exactly like Steve Bannon’s liver.

It’s interesting how there’s this very sharp dividing line in the late 2000s with transphobic and homophobic jokes - I recently rewatched Psych and there’s a huge drop-off in those kinds of jokes after season 3. Thankfully.

I’m not really interested in prosecuting the rest of this shitshow but do you know who writes most of James Cameron’s movies?

Yes, this is true. I may be too charitable here but I think if there were more stories like this he’d have been self-aware enough to speak differently. I guess?

One thing, I think, that made it a good apology is that he’s trying to show other men the dangers of a seductive way of thinking that leads to bad behaviour. It wasn’t by any means simply a “sorry you were offended” kind of apology.

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Boogaloo is about the only new game I’m looking forward to.