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The other benefit of doing one story per season is you only need one lot of sets, one set of costumes, etc. So it’s cheaper than jumping to a new world every episode.

Unfortunately freezing reduces the vitamin C content.

It’s neither “brilliant” nor “stupid” because it’s incapable of thinking. Which it the problem - people react to it as if it could think, when what it is really doing is faking it.

It’s supposed to be. Because it’s not “a truth”, it’s a belief of the mother’s of eligible daughters, that Darcy intends to defend his friend from. The whole book is about deconstructing the opening statement - as you would know if you had read it.

You do realise that the one woman who found an alternative to marriage, was the author?

It never helps to be forced to read something in school. You realise it's satirical?

Wut? Much better cooked fresh. And a lot depends on the variety of potato you use.

They are all ugly. That's why they wear helmets - and they are still angry about it! He looks kind of like a 1st edition half orc though.

They are not hard SF! Which is why they can get away with humans colonising extrasolar planets with travel times measured in years and decades rather than millennia, and aliens with acid blood that grow rapidly with no regard to conservation of energy. The Martian, on the other hand, by...

Frankenstein is not Hard SF and makes no claim to be.

They are very easy reading. I think what you are saying is it’s not to your taste.

She wasn’t considered “literary” at the time of writing. She is only literary now because she was so good that she is still entertaining people 200 years later.

I kind of feel that setting out to do “hard” SF is like handing everyone in the audience a baseball bat and asking them to hit you with it.

They are certainly aping the covers, although I think they may lean into parody. According to my source, the setting is called "Greyhawkins". The adventures in the picture appear to be called "Devil. Metal. Exit!" - so not at all Metal then. And ".......... crop"

Campion is pretty usual in that he straddles the line between the Murder Mystery and Pulp Action Hero genres.

Lately, the critics have maneuvered round that line by retconning Tolkien as a "First World War Poet".

We need to track them down and give them a prize. Or, if they are a WotC employee, arrest them for fraud.

News just in: it looks like the October thing isn’t postponed or cancelled, but nor is it what we thought: it’s a Stranger Things tie-in called Welcome to the Hellfire Club. Appears to be boxed, contains a couple of adventures and Stranger Things tuned props.

And this has been a fault of the rebooted series from the start. Everything is rushed and paper-thin. Wasn't the case for the classic series.

There’s not much point in being able to go anywhere in time and space if you don’t learn anything about the places you visit. Murderbot had 10 episodes of around 25 minutes in which the characters show up somewhere, get into trouble, and solve said trouble. Doctor Who: The Web Planet had 6...