The tunics/tabards remind me of what I wore as a check-out chick in the local supermarket at the time.

Ditto my various attempts at Servalan and her - well let's just say she has a new sidekick. But it's so nice to spend time in the B7 universe with our virtual friends!

Oh yes, that's it exactly! But it looks so very cheap - it adds to the shabby, over-stretched totalitarian society that you were talking about.

Here, just hitting a kid was the central theme of a whole TV program with everyone wringing their hands. So PC I couldn't watch it.

Forgive me for grinning at your resolutions (again) Boss. Have you put the Hanukkah candles away yet?

Here, just hitting a kid was the central theme of a whole TV program with everyone wringing their hands. So PC I couldn't watch it.

And yet people rave over Harry Potter, who was neglected and made to sleep under the stairs...

I think it's the over-the-top, cartoonish nature of the Dursleys' treatment of Harry that gets it past the critics.

Based on a novel called The Slap? I've seen it - and read it for a book group I was in then. I agree with you - everything was so exaggerated as to be ridiculous.

I think it's the over-the-top, cartoonish nature of the Dursleys' treatment of Harry that gets it past the critics.

A category 9 crime? One wonders what the other 8 were - including the cat 4 'going outside' one. Suggestions??

A category 9 crime? One wonders what the other 8 were - including the cat 4 'going outside' one. Suggestions??

I've just finished binge-watching 'The Traitors' (waiting for a punch line that never came - that the whole thing was a scripted drama. Apparently not, it was an actual game show) - but honestly, what a bunch of wet lettuces. They spent most of the time in floods of tears - and the men were worse than the women!

What on earth is Tarrant playing at turning up like that? It looks as though it is deliberate, to rub it in to Blake's mind.

Maybe there were more than 9?

I like the introduction of Vila - you don't know whether to trust him or not. And doesn't he look young, compared to the Vila we saw last week?

I like the introduction of Vila - you don't know whether to trust him or not. And doesn't he look young, compared to the Vila we saw last week?

In the new Big Finish novelisation, the writer Paul Cornell goes deep into everyone's motivations and backgrounds...

Incredibly naive of Varon and his wife to talk so freely in front of that official.

Why do I always have more things to spend my money on than actual money?

Yes, I love this rather dark version of Vila. He doesn't really become the class clown until later on.

Vila is also, evidently, quite a gossip-gatherer. He knows all about Jenna and, as we see, all about Avon, or at least, the gossip about them.

Why do I always have more things to spend my money on than actual money?

Vila is also, evidently, quite a gossip-gatherer. He knows all about Jenna and, as we see, all about Avon, or at least, the gossip about them.

Necessary for the plot, but it does make them out to be a bit stupid.
Or because of the Federation 'class system', and they are obviously upper grades, they disregard the security person as the upper classes would ignore and speak freely in front of their servants.

He's small and lower-class. Gossip is part of what he uses to survive.

Snap! I just said almost exactly the same thing!

Very slick and sly. It would be a survival thing for him - knowledge is power, when you're physically weak.

They really do think the prisoners are thick, don't they? 'Single file...one behind the other...' (sniggering).

I wish he'd stayed that way. In Cygnus Alpha he shows he CAN zap people if needed, but his survival skills mainly lie elsewhere. Having him useless in the killing department was taken a little too far for my liking.