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Because he is using it as a slang term, not in its original meaning as a female dog.

Took me a moment as well, because I was mentally writing the banker off as a random background character just for that one scene - then my brain caught up and went, "Hang on a minute...!" 😄

I don't think he was speaking to himself when he said that. It was absolutely aimed at the cops - but not for the reason they believed. They read it as this helpless blind lawyer begging for his life, but in fact he was imploring them not to cross the line that would force him to take action to stop them.

Agreed. The weight of their shared history hung heavy in that scene. They will always be enemies, with diametrically opposed worldviews, but in a world that has changed so very much, the familiarity of that shared history becomes a bond, of sorts.

From the time she was first introduced, the show always made a point of highlighting that Brianna wasn't really a hacker like Hardison, although she is capable of filling that role when he isn't around. She has always had a slightly different focus, a slightly different specialism, more focused on engineering and building stuff (drones, etc). So seeing that emphasised by giving the two of them different labels doesn't come as a surprise to me, because we always knew that about her. I always thought the role labels were a bit silly, having them emphasised in that way in the titles as if that's all each character is, but I remember reading on John Rogers' blog that it was done for a reason: because audience research showed that apparently most viewers needed that very clear demarcation to fully understand who each character was and what they brought to the team, or something. That is probably even more the case these days, when so few people can be bothered to give their full attention to anything they watch.

Here's a fun fact about this episode: The Sandringham is a real hotel in Cardiff city centre. They didn't just use it as a shooting location, but also kept the name of the hotel and incorporated it into the story!

There have been chairs in the TARDIS at various points in the past. They come and go depending on the Doctor, writer and set designer. Eight's cosy reading chair in the TV Movie was my favourite.

Various Doctors have spent considerable time staying in one place, living one day after another, yet every time it happens (in New Who) it is written as if it is the first time it has ever happened to him and a terrible ordeal that he has no idea how to handle. Because the idea of the Doctor as someone incapable of standing still is more important - to the writers, at least - than the actual history and lived experience of the character. He could so easily have gone back for Anita, but there is no rhyme or reason, really, why one person he befriends becomes a companion and another doesn't. Or rather, there is, but those reasons are always external rather than internal to the show's universe. I had lots of nitpicks, watching. Overall, an entertaining but forgettable episode, for me.

Yes, I'd heard that season 24 was finally reaching PBS at last. Of course, we still haven't seen it (outside of streaming services) in the UK yet - in fact, we only just got season 23 here!

He's way past the age where detectives of Barnaby's rank would usually retire - I used to work with a former detective who retired with a golden handshake at 50 and then had a whole second career in the charity sector - but we're just going to ignore that fact like we did with John Nettles. We'll hang onto our Barnaby for as long as possible! (If only there weren't such huge gaps between seasons, we could have had a lot more content with him in his prime, but they don't make a new season every year, for whatever reason, and haven't done for a while now, and the seasons are also shorter than they used to be.)

Midsomer Murders official Facebook page just announed that season 25 is finally in the works - they start filming sometime next year. Which means it won't be on screen for ages after that! But better late than never, I guess.

Before the show, they'd have been living in London and probably had fairly low-level, not terribly well-paid jobs there. Button House is way out in the countryside, so commuting to the jobs previously held wouldn't be practical, which I think is why we see them taking on other random odd jobs locally when they need money after the move. But the kind of random odd jobs they are mostly likely qualified for and can easily commute to locally would not pay nearly enough to cover the maintenance of a house like Button House. Hence their constant ongoing dilemma.

The All Creatures instagram page posted the other day that Cleo Sylvestre, who played farmer's wife Anne Chapman in the show, has passed away aged 79. https://www.instagram.com/p/DAZQq8LqoW5/?hl=en&img_index=1

I really love the Third Doctor era. 😊 Liz Shaw is the character I point at whenever the Doctor claims to have been UNIT's first ever scientific advisor. He was not! Liz was specifically recruited into the post before he arrived for his exile on Earth! She was the first. He just kind of tagged onto her role.

Yeah. I could see it coming all through that confrontation around the table, but desperately hoped they wouldn't go there. I should have known they would - it's that kind of show! The combination of Greek mythology and Netflix, I guess. I binged the whole series this week. I'm not sure what I was expecting, since I watched mostly for Rakie Ayola (Persephone), who grew up near me. I love seeing her in anything, and in this particularly loved hearing our not-very-well-known local accent on a Netflix show! Overall, I thought the show was fun. Brutal at times, it is Greek mythology, after all, but once you've accepted that premise it's entertaining to watch and I enjoyed seeing how the various mythological strands were handled and woven into the world the show had created. I'm intrigued to see where they take the story next. I want to know what's going on with Canaeus, what will happen to Riddy and Ari, what Dionysus will do next, etc. So I hope there will be a season two! (I have no faith in any network or streaming service to actually finish the stories they start.)