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I agree, and I think it is more than that. I know that Sanderson and Abercrombie are good writers. However, I also think that Sanderson...

I’ve never heard that rumour (hopefully it didn’t come from YouTube….) but fat chance of that happening. The BBC doesn’t work like...

You can't "copywrite" anything, they can assert or give away the intellectual property rights to a story they created involving the word...

For many with dyslexia, symbols are much more reliable than numbers. For those with dyscalculia specifically (the numeric component)...

WotC has as much claim to the word “knight” as they do to the word “the”.

...They do know that the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government, not the head of state, right?

There are some very good BBC radio versions of all of these available on BBC Sounds if you can get that. Whilst Hickson Marple, Suchet...

The books were better. It suffers from the same problem as the recent Shardlake adaptation: it struggles to balance historical...

Older mystery shows: Well, there are the classics, aren’t there? They’ve mostly been mentioned already. I have a weakness for Columbo...

I enjoyed Hustle. The main difference is that in Hustle, although they only target bad guys, they are not doing it specifically to right...

Yes. It’s possible it started off as a Republic kinderblock then became an Imperial one. No doubt Palpatine was running some clandestine...

It would make her 19 or less! To give the writers the benefit of the doubt, let’s say she was rewriting her own history, in the way...

Gough is 45, so that would have been 42 years ago, before The Phantom Menace.

Indeed. The phrase "played for fools" comes to mind.

Yes. Until very recently the UK viewed the USA as a reliable ally. Which is why it followed loyally into so many foreign adventures.