Ben X

DO NOT SPEAK HIS NAME!

Yes, awful, although I also didn't enjoy the third one. (Thought the first one was fun, and really enjoyed the second one, although they should have lifted out the entire cannibal tribe section.)

Well, he is only talking about Downey's performance, right?

No, although I do have a nemesis with the same name as me.

I finally managed to read all my unread topics and get all the board icons grey on the main Idle Forums page, and it gave me another (ridiculous) idea: Instead of just the board icons, the whole forum wallpaper (or whatever you'd call it, the header and all that) is all grey and boring if there are no unread topics, but then if you refresh and there are new topics, it's all bright and lovely and happy! I know you're not really working on this any more, Erkki, but I thought I'd turn this into an 'internet forum wishlist' thread.

I was watching that thinking "very Peter Serafinowicz" and then his username came up at the end!

You might not like the Adventure Gamers Top 100 Adventures list that they did recently, then..!

Your nemesis!

Did you play the free DLC FMV shooter (produced by Troma)? It looked hilarious!

Holmes has problems with every character, though! To paraphrase Watson, he's pretty much constantly a dick to everyone. I thought she got more likeable and active in this one - instead of continuing the whole fragile wallflower bit, she shows insight into Holmes and straight out offers him support. I think it's her first step in a Ginny Weasley arc (without the romance). Sure, she's still a bit weak, but they can't all be Amy Ponds or Rose Tylers.

That's great, man, the higher-res the better! Thanks for doing that. Maybe you should comment/contact Dorkin and see if he would be interested in seeing them or hosting them or something. ... Just read it, it's fantastic! Lots of classic Dorkin in there. Glad I've got it, thanks Synth.

Plus about thirty more short stories and a couple of novels (which I'm sure you knew, but am clarifying it for others).

Ha ha, followed! We must have linked to those mad TNG fan edits somewhere before, right? The site's down right now, though. Not sure how long that's been the case.

Big Dog knows better.

I'm just going to keep on plugging Thunderpeel's shit (not a sexual reference): http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/01/13/what-if-grim-fandango-deluxe Oh, and Thunder, all your links to forum threads are incorrect - they need forums. at the start.

I like the way they've updated Mycroft. Instead of being so indolent he sits around at a gentlemen's club all day, he instead has found himself a nice government job where he can get his minions to do everything for him, from behind his desk.

Don't miss me out if you come up with any new ones! The Twitter one was especially good.

Oog, Jumper was mostly terrible. I'm not going to talk about O&T (I thought it was mostly film posters that had got into that habit), but I'll quickly say that I thought Drive looked gorgeous. It was like a 70s existential thriller with an 80s aesthetic and score overlayed. And yeah, the story is quite slight and there are slow sections, but that's par for the course with this sub-genre, as with Vanishing Point or Point Blank. A lot of people who recommend it are quick to make the caveat that it's not The Transporter, Kill Bill or Furious Five, because if you go in expecting that kind of movie your expectations may sully your enjoyment. Also, I saw it on the big screen which I think benefited it. Win.

Ahhh, I see. You're talking about plot arcs versus mystery-of-the-week episodes. I thought you were talking specifically about character relationships. Yeah, I'd definitely like to see them work a little more on properly threading Moriarty through the series rather than just have namedropping at the end of each episode. Although I wouldn't want to lose the standalone stories completely. Supernatural is very good at that stuff.

The first season didn't do that much, did it? It introduced the two characters and moved them into the ongoing 'Holmes and Watson solve crimes, annoy each other' relationship, which was pretty much set by the third ep and is being continued now. I'm all for evolution over revolution, but what kind of things could they do to the "development of their relationships or the politics of their surroundings"?

Cumberbatch says one ongoing arc is the humanisation of Holmes, which we saw quite a lot of in Hounds. You can't really expect it to stray too far from 'Holmes and Watson solve crimes, annoy each other', though...

More good news today: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/01/12/work-s-t-a-l-k-e-r-on-2-reportedly-continuing/

I think we should all step back and have a nice, calming wank. (There needs to be a 'medicinal wank' smiley.)

Sure, but you're inferring that, Wikipedia isn't saying it.