Wow, I really thought it was 'Ben-wah', like Benoit. Which I now realise is another name I've only ever seen written down and now I feel like maybe my whole world is crumbling to dust before my eyes.

I did not at all dislike Season 1. If you have the mindset that can take eliding whole storylines, both the Holy Wayne and the daughter's plotlines are eminently skippable.

In a way, that's actually what I'm talking about. As a framing device (if that's the phrase I want), the bookended window berockings rang quite false to me. I didn't buy Nora initiating it, I thought I sympathised with her stealing the questionnaire until it turned out she was just paying the victim-blaming forward on…

The Erika/Nora dynamic just didn't land for me, I have to say.

I'm reasonably sure it won't be the Prime timeline. Way, way too much continuity lockout stuff there. They'll probably zip forward a few years from the Abramsverse movies and just do their own thing. Probably for the best.

Only if they retain the exact tracks. One of my favourite scenes.

I mean, you know the answer is that this was destined to suck from the word go. Such a shame.

Well be the jappers, sure I didn't have turbly high hopes for the accent now, sure an' I didn't, but sacred heart a fockin' Jaysus that's desperate altogether so it is. Begorrah.

I found it very hard to buy that Miracle has this extensive security but no photographic database where they can just look you up by name and see your status.

I'd imagine so. He does a hell of a job, but it must be tough.

Christopher Eccleston's delivery of "Burrito" cracked me right up. Popped me right out of the moment for a bit.

Pretty sure it's what they do when a Klingon dies. They warn the afterlife that a WARRIOR is on the way or whatever dumb crap Klingons are into.

Amen, couldn't care less about this jabroni's backstory. Wah-wah angry-crazy, wah-wah sad-crazy, wah-wah peaceful-crazy. There. There's the arc, in no more detail than required. A waste of a 90-minute episode.

Largely Ireland-oriented, but Waterford Whispers is quite funny. And there's The Daily Mash for the Brits.

That just tends to happen; all memes dilute and mutate. I can see somewhat why the word appeals in this context - the doctor embodies a certain outdated concept of sophisticated masculinity, doesn't he? Pipe and slippers and a Harper's subscription, all that. I'd be inclined to resist it, though, because the classical…

I do, but not because I've ever watched even a second of Leave It To Beaver. I just google stuff I don't get and tend to remember it.

"The fact that the industry as a whole tends to fail the test is the whole point."

Unlikely anyone will know (and the imdb credit suggests not) but is there any connection between “Dig That Cat… He’s Real Gone” and the X Minus One radio play "Real Gone"?

That's a Stephen King short story, "The Moving Finger", which the internet tells me was filmed for a series called "Monsters".

The point of the Bechdel test (as I see it) is to comment on the industry as a whole, not on individual works. It's really not any kind of big deal if, say, Das Boot fails the test, is it? Just as it's not exactly headline news that Supergirl passes it. It's when you run the test down, for example, the 25 top-grossing…