Well, I'm a big Doctor Who fan so can only speculate how the reveal was taken by newbies, but the episode establishes beforehand that he's another Time Lord and the name, The Master, is more aggressive and domineering than that of The Doctor, which I'd imagine was a pretty good indicator of an imminent fan-shit…

Watching the climax of Utopia in a room full of raving Whonatics was a fantastic experience. Everyone went completely off their nut when Derek Jacobi said "I… am… THE MASTER!" and I got a moment of monumental smugness at guessing ahead of time that Yana could be an acronym. As an episode, Utopia is mostly just setting…

My overriding memory of the movie, which I've seen only once and that was when it came out, was that it was pointlessly unpleasant. The (TV) X-Files could be extremely sinister and nasty, but was also generally fascinating or shocking or surprising in a way which made the darkness seem worthwhile and exciting. There's…

My issue with Chilton running was not so much how it happened, but that it seemed a transparent ploy by the writers to tell the audience that he was much more mobile than previously depicted, thus trying to force a little extra plausibility into a set-up (Chilton as Ripper) which realistically has very little.

The problem is not that they've taken Chilton, as obviously you'd arrest someone with three mutilated corpses in their house no matter what, but the fact everyone seems to be acting as though the case is done and dusted even though it falls apart under relatively little duress. I'm also baffled as to why Hannibal…

Sorry, but the whole Chilton as Ripper situation is a step too far. There's no way a man in his condition could have pulled off the Ripper murders, and while this show doesn't skimp on the leaps of logic, there are just too many implausibilities for it to add up.

This show is really good. In fact, it's so good, it's delicious. How delicious, you ask? Why, it's de-LECTER-ble!

Some guy actually put a load of Danger Man episodes up on YouTube a few years ago. No idea if they'll get to stay up, but they're there if you want them.

It's tough to find a single link encapsulating everything I'm talking about. For starters, though, here's Gove himself offering his view of how the teaching of history has been distorted by left-wing biases, naturally written for the Daily Mail:

If you're aware of the latest disgraces of Michael Gove's education reforms in the UK, 'The General' is also a startlingly evocative debate about how the concept of education can be used not to expand minds, but control them. Not the best episode - the ending is more than a little eye-rolling these days - but more…

The Prisoner is dated?

"I suggest feather touch." *beep beep beep* "You have entered POWER DRIVE!"

I'd have to go back and watch those episodes again because the only ones from S9 I've seen recently are 'Sunshine Days' and 'Improbable'.

I've read these reviews more or less from the start and have looked forward to each one. X-Files was the first show I really, really got into - despite being too young to fully understand it at the time - and these reviews have inspired me to go back and watch some of the classics. There's been some great work done…

Given all the Silence Of The Lambs winks and nudges we're getting, I'm, like Hannibal with Miriam, going out on a limb (ho ho) and perhaps over-ambitiously predicting that Jack will kill Hannibal in their fight, then go downstairs into the basement and discover Anthony Hopkins chained up down there. That's when shit…

Fair enough, maybe I'm just too suspicious of these things. Plus, it seemed slightly odd to me last season (or at least, when I caught up with Hannibal, which was only a few weeks ago) that a moderately known actress like Anna Clumsky was hired exclusively for a smattering of flashback scenes. I didn't mean my…

If fairness to Thomas Harris, he never wanted to write Hannibal Rising and I believe only did so because one of the producers with the movie rights to the character threatened to otherwise write a prequel without his consent or involvement. As you say, I suspect the ending of Hannibal novel was an act of knowing…

Was anyone REALLY surprised that Miriam Lass was alive? If you don't see a body, it's as close to a nailed-on guarantee in almost any work of fiction that the supposed victim is going to be making a dramatic return at some point.

Another excellent episode, full of the oft-ludicrous but always delightful theatricality which makes this show so entertaining. Hannibal sleeping with Alana to get himself an alibi and Gideon's last supper were both excellent character moments, reflecting Chilton's earlier diagnosis of Hannibal as someone in love with…

It would be an evening of pure fabulosity!