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Honestly, for such a shaky story arc this was a pretty dang good conclusion. The trailers threatened another overstuffed mess like Moffat's last two episodes but everything turned out to fit together. I loved the Teselecta reveal. When they first turned up in the episode the idea that they'd...

Ah, that's more like it. There were points where I was worried that it'd write itself into a corner, but by the end it was a satisfying treatment of a tricky idea. More like this, please! The director kind of lost the plot during that fight scene, though. (Thought: was the otherwise...

And the Soulless guys or whatever they were called were rather heavily emphasised in the trailers, considering that they turned out to be a big-lipped alligator moment. Bit late, but yeah

Well, it was a Mark Gatiss episode. By now I've learnt that that means an okay idea, okay execution, enjoyable experience, but with an ultimate feeling of "right then - what's the main course?" To be fair it's probably his most solid episode, with no clunky bits like Unquiet Dead's cop-out...

Most of the press reviews have been positive, but here's one which is closer to my own opinion: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/neilmccormick/100055733/doctor-who-theyre-making-it-up-as-they-go-along/ The story arcs in new Who have always been plot-twist-upon-plot-twist with little in...

Somewhat OT, but... has anyone seen the Q&A section on the Doctor Who Wikia? http://drwho.answers.wikia.com/wiki/Special:WikiActivity Some of the questions: "Why didnt the doctor detox in lets kill hitler" "HoW did the doctor Survive the time war" "Is he a philnathnrofprofisnt?" "I have...

I think a lot of the documentaries shown on Channel 4 in the UK (originally meant to be "alternative", slowly degraded into "bottom-feeding" qualify. They had one a few years ago called "101 Things Removed from the Human Body". I didn't watch the whole thing (which was, thankfully, a one-off...

Hmm, bit of a mix. I think it suffered from the same problem as Good Man Goes to War - too much emphasis on furthering the story arc, not enough on constructing a satisfying episode that stands on its own merits. However... I enjoyed it a little more. I liked the idea of the history police...

On the whole I've been enjoying it. The main problem, so far, is that it's been rather padded; I'm not sure it needs ten hours of running time. It's clearly a different beast to the tightly-paced and assured Children of Earth. I'm a tad disappointed that, after the moral ambiguity of that...

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/transformers-dark-of-the-moon-20110629 cool story bro

I'm having more trouble coming up with a non-pervy explanation as to how she knew Amy had conceived in the first place. Eew.

Winsor McCay's Sinking of the Lusitania is probably the most famous one.

Honestly, I never like to kick up too much of a stink in these threads, but... let-down, really. A lot of fight scenes between characters we barely know and an incredibly thin plot underpinning it all. We know very little more about the eyepatch lady's motivations. A few new characters have...

The general implication from the last episode was that gangers, when functioning correctly, don't have their own minds, just the minds of the originals projected into them; the Amy ganger was just a remote-controlled body and so disposing of her would just return her mind to the original body...

It's actually a pretty recently-skewed list in general - only four cartoons from before the nineties. (fiveifyouwanttobereallypickyandcountthesimpsonsasapreninetiesseries) Kind of interesting that they picked Cowboy Bebop for the one foreign cartoon, as opposed to more obvious nostalgia hits...