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Well done for picking up on the Pathologic remake. What a brutal, terrible, magnificent game the original was/is. Near unplayable, no question - I struggled through it with a walkthrough, because going alone was too much after less than half an hour - but getting to the end, albeit only once - the game's great cosmic

INK IT UP TO THE SUN
INK IT UP TO THE MOON
SPLAT-AT-AT-AT-AT-AT-AT-SPLATOOOOOOOON

Watch the last three at least, even if only to see Capaldi giving an absolute powerhouse performance in Heaven Sent. The other two will give that episode context, but are also very good in their own right.

No Peter Capaldi? Even without Heaven Sent and The Zygon Inversion, he was already putting out powerhouse performances in mixed material. Add those two episodes and you've got a phenomenal actor at the top of his game in a role he loves. May not be fashionable to praise Who - I've certainly got plenty of criticisms of

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I think it's fair to say this image makes almost too much sense.

Camille Paglia's delightful. She comes out with some absolutely barmy ideas, but is almost always interesting, sincere and inspires thought, with no interest paid to 'sensitivity' or populism. Her old-school bluster is a stark contrast to the vapid mantras and self-pity regurgitated by today's plastic activists, and

Urgh. There's something so loathsome about Hillary Clinton it overrides the fact she's, as far as I can see, the best of the available candidates for the Presidency. She may have ridden on her husband's coattails a fair bit of the way, but she's had or been involved with some solid accomplishments along the way, from

People confuse the show not validating one side or the other as not taking a stance. In fact, South Park has always taken stances, just usually ones more complex and nuanced than the angry, reactionary positions adopted as immaculate absolutes by the left and the right.

'She Used To Be Mine' by Sara Bareilles (from her musical, 'Waitress'). Bloody song won't stop breaking my heart.

As a non-comics reader, it made me laugh when Hank transformed and announced in his gravelliest Dramatic Voice that his name was John Jones. I know, I know, it's J'onn J'onzz, but was still amusing at the time.

Nothing incredible, but still good. It managed to be both too clever by half, but still satisfyingly clever. The 'hybrid' stuff and everything associated with it was a narrative dead-end, but reasonably well worked as a metaphor for what Clara had become and a satisfying conclusion to a character Moffat had way

Don't get me wrong, Gotham's far from a 'good' show and Supergirl has all the potential to be fantastic. It's just that, between the two right now, for me Gotham's so earnestly stupid it's circled around to being fun despite itself, where Supergirl is weighed down by how a potentially great show is turning out

Have to admit it amuses me no end that this is a show which goes to sometimes ludicrous lengths to wave its feminist credentials for all to see, yet by coincidence one of the main villains happens to be the spitting image of Justin Trudeau, the left's hero du jour.

If he'd tightened it up by 188 minutes, it'd be even better.

Yup, made me laugh. So brazenly idiotic and inexplicable it couldn't help but be a bit fabulous.

My first thought went to a different but no less brilliant '60s TV show, making me think Moffat was writing a timey-wimey version of The House That Jack Built, with Peter Capaldi cast in the unlikely role of Emma Peel.

Did the word 'bird' not just evoke a situation the Doctor remembered that put all the pieces of the puzzle together for him to understand what was going on and needed to be done? The version of him saved in the transporter's memory was exactly the version who first arrived in the dial, so it wouldn't make sense for

RTD quite often prioritised character melodrama over plot, with every emotion heightened for dramatic effect. Consequently, once Moffat's more plot-centric approach came along, with comparatively understated character beats, it came across as somewhat austere in comparison. God bless him, but there were times where

Spectacular. Easily one of Moffat's best since he took over and one of the strongest of the entire NuWho run. It looked great, the clockwork puzzle box narrative was clever and powerful without being obnoxious or showy, and naturally, Capaldi was spectacular, as always. This has been a generally good season, but Face