Kenny Evil

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This has come up recently but Charisma Carpenter was given/forced to take time off for "personal issues", hence Cordelia's sudden vacation. Also Charisma didn't tell them that she was pregnant until it was fairly apparent, which ended up throwing a monkey wrench into the plans for season 4 which is why he character arc was so awful. Partly it was panic, partly they were mad at her and apparently she only found out that she wasn't coming back for season 5 when a reporter phoned her for her reaction.

Ordinary sounds like it has a really interesting premise and I'm a big fan of Rob Williams and D'Israeli both individually and as a team.

If they do this with the same dour, depressing tone of Man of Steel then all of Zack Snyder's sins will be forgiven. I want to see a scaled version of the Captain Planet outfit. Also the green mullet is a must.

I actually quite liked season 2 of Angel. The end of the elevator ride to Hell was just devastating at the time and they really honed the message of the show with Epiphany Pacific rim seems to be getting shat on internally by Warner Bros in much the same way that Inception was before it came out. I'm hoping for a similar conclusion.

While rewatching Buffy, i've realised more and more what an influence Spider-man is on the series, with Buffy's penchant for quipping in a fight and the incredible level of humour present throughout what is ostensibly a drama. When it needed to be heavy, it really could be as well, but generally when the depressing drama overwhelms the sense of fun in the series the whole thing stopped working. One of the things that I loved about the last Spider-man movie was that Pete seemed to have fun with his powers and they at least got that moment where he was injured, mentally exhausted and yet was fully ready to throw himself at the Lizard because that's just who he was. I hope for the next one that they get the balance between Spidey's humour and "never say die" attitude in there. One of the reasons I really didn't want to see Man of Steel is that it seems like an entirely joyless film. I really can't be bothered with grim and gritty superhero films any more. I'll give the Star Trek films this, for all my many, many criticisms against them, one thing I can't say is that they weren't fun.

I've thought about it a bit more and I'm not sure I'd want her as the 12th Doctor but I think she'll make the best possible choice for the 13th. I think she's just getting interesting and, by the time she gets to her mid thirties will completely own the role.

Someone suggested Natalia Tena (aka Osha from Game of Thrones) and I think she'd be pretty good. I honestly don't know who they'll choose as the next Doctor, but I'm sure they'll be good.

Tywin's placement is surprising. A lot of people seem to agree with his assessment that killing a dozen people at dinner is more noble than killing thousands in the field of battle. Also, he set The Mountain and the Brave Companions on the Riverlands causing the deaths of hundreds who did nothing more than be born in their villages and work the lands. Also, i'm guessing that Roger Sterling was off the charts on the likeability axis and Arya should be smack bang in the middle of the good/bad axis. She's done what she's had to do to survive but that's involved many, many deaths.

The Doctor is the sole big character in TV and film where a gender swap wouldn't be out of place. I would never suggest recasting Buffy as a man or James Bond as a woman but the Doctor is the sole character where this is possible and is a possibility that should be explored. People will find it jarring at first and then just get used to it so long as the actress is of the same calibre as the previous Doctors.

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Still Stavros' go for the next 30 minutes. Meanwhile, my choice is the 8th Doctor's TARDIS.

I had no idea that it was my go. Well, my last choice is Omega.

Microsoft seems to have designed everything around what makes the publishers happy. Unfortunately they seem to believe they have a captive audience and they are going to learn that they really, really don't.

Basically to stick it to Todd McFarlane.

That's what stannis tells himself but I don't think that's necessarily true. I think he really got a taste for power during the second season and the events of blackwater and this year have started to temper that a bit.

This isn't a Game of thrones thing, it's a HBO thing. With their drama series the penultimate episode is where the big shit goes down and the final episode deals with the aftermath.

Hannah, I assume that was because they were shooting in Morocco which is 99% Arabic. That's not just a figure, I've plucked out of the air, literally 99% of the Moroccan population is Arab-Berber and therefore would be dark skinned.

Robb Stark! King in the North! Robb Stark! King in the North!

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Whoops. i was waiting for Pan-dub to go and didn't notice he already had. I amn't smart. Still, that my pick is unaffected: Rassilon.

I'm not saying that the Doctor can only be a white woman. That's what I mean by the casting call being truly open, anyone should be able to audition and the actor who connects the most, who truly stands out should be chosen. This wouldn't work unless the writers could get excited about the actor who they can see as the Doctor and, while I agree that not every actor could be The Doctor, gender and ethnicity shouldn't be barriers for determining who the Doctor should be played by.

Sure but most male actors wouldn't make a good doctor either. For instance I like Alfie Allen, i think he's a terrific actor but he would be wrong as the Doctor. Twenty years ago Joanna Lumley would have made a great eighth Doctor but Dervla Kirwan wouldn't. I'm hoping for a complete unknown who everyone will think is absolutely wrong for the part until the end of their first episode, at which point everyone agrees they were right for the part after all.

Pretty much my thoughts as well. I remember Moffat saying that he wanted to cast someone who was about 40-50 to be an older professor type but Smith ended up blowing them away. I'm hoping for a similar thing here with a truly open casting call. They were right with Eccleston and they were right with Tennant and they were right with Smith, so I'd imagine that whoever they pick next will be the perfect choice and will often end up being better than the material as is the tradition with all of the Doctors.

I think Gaiman was the one who came up with it but Moffat would have veto'd it if he didn't want the possibility opened up. Gaiman mentioned that he cut a line about the Doctor being inspired by the Corsair because he's driven by things too dark and terrible to comprehend.