If I went 'round calling myself Night King because some moistened bint lobbed an ice javelin at me, they'd put me away!

Yeah, this episode stretched credibility to near breaking point. Stuff like Jon's hopeless planning doesn't bother me, because he's never been much of a tactician, or the sketchiness of the plan to capture a Wight, because I can stretch to believing that's something these people might think is a good idea. There's…

Sansa's arc is transforming from a naive, entitled girl obsessed with courtly romance and easy rule, to a politically savvy operator tailor made for the Iron Throne. Joffrey and Ramsey abused the courtly romance delusions out of her and showed her fear and brutality were no way to rule; Littlefinger showed her the…

Perhaps, but it's not hateful. You think it's misguided and blinkered, that's your view and you are absolutely entitled to it. All I'm asking is that people respond to what's in the memo, as you have, rather than making stuff up that not only isn't stated or implied, but is directly contradicted by what's actually in…

No, he didn't. He said he believed the statistical distribution of certain characteristics among the sexes might be partially responsible for the gap in representation of men and women in tech. He did not claim women are worse than men or less suited to the job, just that, based on his cited research, he believed…

The existence of MK Mythologies: Sub-Zero was worth it for N64 Magazine's fabulously brutal loathing of it, expressed not only in their review ("Although we normally take pride in completing games before reviewing them here at N64 Magazine, I abandoned MK Mythologies: Sub-Standard on level two and would sooner be…

Littlefinger indirectly getting a Valyrian steel dagger into Arya's hands lines up nicely with my predictions, which are as follows.

I just moved into a new home and after setting up my videogames, GoldenEye was the first to be played. And while the graphics are blurred and chunky, the objectives needlessly obscure, the controller's analogue stick moves as smoothly as a geriatric climbing Ben Nevis, and the frame rate even less so, it's pure…

Having read the memo on Gizmondo, it's worth pointing out, considering a lot of the responses both there and here, that regardless of whether you buy into what he's saying or the justifications for his beliefs, he doesn't seem to be arguing that women are worse at tech jobs than men. He's arguing that there are social…

I always liked asking Jeeves for porn. It felt extra dirty that you were making the butler do it.

For a company supposedly at the cutting edge of technology, they should probably know a bit more about the history of computing and programming if they think it's a man's game. Up until around the '70s, programming was considered women's work and many of its most important pioneers were female, from Ada Lovelace to…

I enjoy Game Of Thrones a great deal, but if there's one thing I'm grateful to it for more than anything else, it's giving Diana Rigg a role worthy of her at an age when she doesn't seem to act much anymore and it seems unlikely she'll take on anything this prominent again. I grew up with her as Emma Peel and Teresa…

For a start, look up what neoliberalism is. Not only does it have nothing to do with political correctness, it's not even ostensibly on the same side of the political spectrum.

SPECTRE being serialised would've required too much recall of previous movies one way or the other, but I'm convinced the writers could've made the links at least functionally coherent if they'd taken ten minutes to work something out rather than lazily forcing in exposition like 'Quantum was really SPECTRE all along…

As much as I'd rather they go back to standalones, or at least very soft serialisation (like Kronsteen referencing Dr. No in 'From Russia'), they sort of have to deal with the outcome of SPECTRE in some fashion, what with Bond apparently retiring with a woman he showed genuine affection for (for reasons not entire…

As far as I'm concerned, people are perfectly entitled to not want a female Doctor if it's just their personal preference and they aren't obnoxious about it. If they start making out like it's destroying the fabric of the show (despite being perfectly within continuity), ruining childhoods, generally leading to the…

Colin Baker was good. The writing was not.

She's a safe choice and never particularly struck me as eccentric or with a forceful personality, as one might expect from a Doctor, but is certainly likeable and talented. Hopefully she'll have a proper character arc and won't be defined entirely as the (first) female Doctor, even if there are some interesting…

Alexander Siddig first, or David Thewlis second. Neither has even the foggiest chance of actually happening, natch, but by Toutatis, I'd be splatteringly happy if it did. As long as it's not a nonentity like Kris Marshall or someone as obnoxious as Michaela Cole, hopefully all will be well. I don't envy anyone having…

I am completely down for this. Euro sci-fi is great pulpy fun and as long as there's just enough coherence to even loosely anchor the visuals to cohesive universe-building, it'll be all good - I even sort of love Jupiter Ascending, despite it being crap. You don't go to this sort of thing for the plot, and Dane DeHaan…