I really liked ’the Fam’. It was a nice change of dynamic from previous (usually) single companions. And different from the Amy and Rory relationship too - grandfather/grandson and Ryan not being romantically involved with Yaz just felt different.

Plus they were all good fun and bounced well off The Doctor in their different ways.

And Jodie Whitaker was a great Doctor too. While I won’t try and defend every idea in every episode, we needed the change of pace from a decade of Moffat and Segun Akinola’s music was also excellent.

Thirteen gave me what I wanted out of a Doctor when she left - the desire for just a bit more time with her.

Fond memories of GoldenEye on the N64 where everybody's head was a photo wrapped around a D20...

I'm in two minds about that. One the one hand, yes, of course - as all the original COBOL folks die off, the skills will be even rarer and thus worth more.

On the other hand, if we keep propping up old shit, the businesses will keep relying on it and it'll be even more painful when they do eventually get forced to migrate off it.

On the other other hand, we know it works, and we don't want to migrate everything into a series of Electron apps just because that's popular at the moment.

I told myself I liked SGU. Then I rewatched it a few years ago. It didn’t age well. Eli is basically the only likeable character. Why do I care what happened to Rush or the others? They were all assholes. I doubt I’ll give it another go, even though I’ll rewatch SG-1 and Atlantis eventually. A shame. It had good ideas, and the looks back at what was going on on Earth were cool, but you have to like (or love to hate) the characters to make a TV show work. I didn’t enjoy Rush or Young as antagonists, they were just dicks.

Hey now

The neutrinos have mutated

“Rent for £3.99”

But I already pay for Amazon Prime, wtf? Greedy bastards…

Personally, I think the problem with Galactica nowadays is that the world is generally far more depressing than it was when the show came out. I can take dark and gritty, but it was more fun then. Now, I prefer something more lighthearted.

Like the flashback episode of SNW, where we saw Chapel and M'Benga during the Klingon War. My first though was "this is awesome, I could watch a whole show like that", but shortly afterwards, I realised "nope, that would be way too much, bring back Captain Daddy making jokes about how flipping the communicator open is better than tapping a commbadge.

Or maybe I'm just more of a miserable bastard than I was 20 years ago. IDK.

But hey, for any sci-fi fan, I'd certainly recommend at least watching the miniseries that kicks it all off. Get a feel for the characters and the universe they're in.

I've never watched Babylon 5. Everyone always raves about it, but I don't know if I could get past the extremely dated looking effects.

Plus there's so much new content coming out. I can't criticise anyone who doesn't want to watch older stuff, because who has the time to watch it all?

That being said... you have seen Firefly, right?

Sadly, I didn't find my current RP group until the all-bard group Kobold Dance Party had already broken up...

And 1066. I can’t remember what actually happened then but the year is burned into my brain.

Rings a bell. I think England beat Germany in the World Cup…

I... do not like this.

I kind of like it. Like, he's spent his whole life preaching the Federation ideals, trying to be the best he can be, and after all that, it cost him his son. I know that means less for us who only heard about David in TWOK, but watching Strange New Worlds now and hearing him talk about being in a relationship with 'Carol', it actually kind of retroactively hurts, because we know how it ends.

And it wasn't death in battle in a dangerous job that David chose to do, he was murdered by a Klingon saving the life of someone Kirk hardly knows.

He didn't steal the Enterprise and go on a genocidal rampage of Kronos or anything either.

You can't expect the man to be a saint after all that. Sending him to be the ambassador to the Klingons was cruel on Starfleet's part, even if Spock did vouch for him. Totally on point, seeing how they did the same thing to M'Benga, Chapel, Ortegas etc. after the Klingon war. But still. Cruel.

And even after all of that, even after 'let them die', even after becoming the obvious suspect for the assassination of the Chancellor and being sent to Rura Penthe... he never actually DID become the monster. He was still the best of Starfleet.