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I saw it recently (bought on Google Play less than 24-hours before Netflix sent me an email with "guess what we've just added - Thor 2, sucker!").

Pretty good, I thought, albeit strictly adhering to the Marvel formula. Hiddleston as Loki is always a joy, and Eccleston made an effective if totally predictable villain.

Enjoyed this movie far more than Avengers 2, which was a sprawling, mostly boring mess.

I neither watch nor care about Dr Who but a quick scan of that Mirror article left me with one reasonable sounding sentence.

A BBC spokesman said: "We are only three weeks into this year's run, It is far too early to discuss next year's commission."

Yeah, reasonable-sounding, but not entirely convincing. You may recall that after the first episode of season 1 was broadcast the BBC immediately announced that season 2 had been commissioned.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4395849.stm

So basically what they mean now is that they don't want to talk about it.

...anybody else think Toby Whithouse should've been showrunner?

Well, I am not sure I would go that far, although there is a distinct lack of suitable candidates.

Mark Gatiss is the "more of the same" choice (which I think the BBC will want, when Moffat goes) and he shares with Whithouse the key advantage of not being Chris Chibnall.

Personally I'd like to see the job go to Ben Aaronovitch, but I admit my view of 1987-89 as the golden age of Doctor Who is not universally accepted.... yet.

Yeah, that was a decent episode. Sort of like Warriors of the Deep, only superior in every respect.

[Dalek]

Would be interesting if the Doctor's next incarnation is a Dalek or Cyberman.

Nightmare in Silver featured a Cyberman version of the Tenth Doctor. It was rather well done.

I note Tesco have used this as an excuse to cease awarding green clubcard points.

This means that a very large proportion of their customers will lose out, either through reduced loyalty points or additional bag charges.

I think Corbyn has totally outmanoeuvred the pro-nuke wing of his party.

"Sure, vote for Trident if it excites you sexually, but don't expect me to pretend to consider using it."

Where has this guy been hiding all these years, he's wonderful!

There's a short video retrospective of ICE 2015 that's just gone up, featuring several jimps and at least one 2000AD colourist....

https://youtu.be/dvKJh9v_wI4

It annoys me hugely that the opposition parties have either destroyed themselves, or are so viciously treated by the media that even sensible policies are regarded as lunacy.

Meanwhile, the government introduces policies which devastate the lives of the most vulnerable but are pretty much untouchable.  The prime minister could literally fuck a dead pig and the whole debacle can be easily dismissed as irrelevant, because there is simple no alternative.  I agree that policy should be the only thing that matters, but I also think that we should be led by the best of us.

You make a good point. I didn't vote for Cameron before, which is one reason I don't care. It'd be interesting to hear from any 2010 and/or 2015 Conservative voters to see if the pig-fucking has made a difference to them.

Only, Tory voters are banned from buying 2000AD, so they probably won't read this...

This is how far we've gone.  Corbyn's a far left lunatic for daring to suggest that newly printed money should be used for the public good.

The snp are extremists for suggesting that a referendum should be held if the majority are in favour of it. 

The lib dems have fallen down a hole never to be seen again. 

The prime minister might have defiled a dead pig...but what the heck, never mind, it's just one of those things, a jolly jape, boys will be boys.

Heh, this is the first time I've ever seen this combination of (seemingly unrelated) views expressed, so I'm not sure who is supposed to have gone as far as you say.

For my own point I don't agree with any of the statements, except possibly number 3.

Corbyn's economic policy probably would have some nasty side-effects. but then so does Osborne's.

The SNP only exist to achieve independence, so obviously whatever their campaign promises they are going to want a second referendum (and if it comes to it a third, and a fourth, and so on). It's not an extremist view, it's just tiresome to replay the same arguments all the time.

The LibDems might comes back as a Centre Left party. There's certainly a gap now. Personally I think the brand is toxic for a generation and social democrats are better off making peace with the Corbynistas.

Cameron's alleged transgression wasn't at all a jolly jape, it seems more likely he was the victim of some pretty horrible public school-style bullying (I guess if you really, really hate Cameron you could construct a scenario in which the initiation ceremony was more like "eat a tin of cold beans" but a young Cam was adamant he was going to fuck the dead pig, come what may. However I think it more likely that if it happened at all he was more or less forced to do it at the risk of some pretty dire social consequences should he refuse). Not that I'm saying I sympathize with him over this, just that I can't summon up the energy to be angry with him for it, or indeed really to care at all.

It's his politics that are the problem, and that's all I am actually concerned about.

People who vote Tory shouldn't be allowed to read 2000ad.

Yes, absolutely, because it's important that only people that agree with you are allowed to read it.

I just hope you can afford to make up for any shortfall this might create in Rebellion's accounts...

Slander. It would be a mistake for DC to start legal action (plebe gate is a good example of attempting to clear your name just making things worse)

I hope it happens, and that Cameron's defence is that he did everything that is alleged, but it was beautiful and natural and that anyone who says he wasn't deeply in love with the pig's corpse is a despicable liar.

Really? Looking at that man and knowing he may have once committed an act necrophilliac beastiality doesn't undermine his credibility?

I can genuinely say it makes no difference to me whether he did or didn't do it.

Unless I've underestimated your love for Cameron quite considerably, I'm pretty sure you don't think any less of him after this story broke either

That's why I asked 'would this scandal undermine him', rather then stating that it would. I think as a rumour its harmless enough but if there was proof or if the public refuse to let it go of if any one were to start legal action then it could become damaging. He could very easily find any attempt to storm international moral high ground totally demolished.

I understand that you think it won't harm him but that doesn't mean it can't.

Legal action based on what? Nothing illegal is alleged to have taken place. I guess it's vaguely possible that national outrage could force him to go, but would that really happen? A lot of people that really don't care would have to pretend very hard that they do.

Yeah, almost worked.

Shame that Moffat's scripts are so mannered now that even the really good ideas get drowned out by all the endlessly repeating bullsh*t he insists on putting in.

I winced in genuine agony at every mention of The Doctor's last day.