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The point is he didn't think much of Star Wars while he was making it, and he didn't think much of Star Wars 20 years later. To judge how he really felt I'd go with what he wrote in his letters and diaries more than what he said in public. In public he was charming - the man had to earn a living...

"Alec disliked his role as "Obi-Wan Kenobi" in the Star Wars movies, and even claimed that he persuaded George Lucas to kill off the character as a way to limit his involvement in the films. He also claimed to have thrown away all of his Star Wars-related fan mail unopened." Taken from:Alec...

Alec Guinness thought the film was an embarrassing joke while he was making it: "new rubbish dialogue reaches me every other day on wadges of pink paper - and none of it makes my character clear or even bearable. I just think, thankfully, of the lovely bread, which will help me keep going...

He was under Mycroft's protection. Mycroft warned Sherlock off him, and said something like "he's just a businessman, not a murderer, and occasionally useful." Magnussen used his influence for his own business ends, and was capable of doing deals - when he visited Baker Street that was...

Now that was more like it.Hats off to Lars Mikkelson who played the most unpleasant villain I've seen in a while.

I wouldn't say it was bad, it just hasn't reach the heights of the first two series. If this was a "normal" program with say 11 episodes I wouldn't mind so much, but when you get 3 episodes a year if you're lucky, each one that turns out to be average quality feels like a missed opportunity...

We've plotted out the whole of series 4 and 5 reveals Steven Moffat "Around 10pm on Sunday night, Sherlock fans may be feeling a combination of elated and melancholic. Elated because the concluding episode of series three is very good, melancholic because -just 11 days after it returned- it's...

Sherlock season 4 could come sooner than expected: ?We?re working on dates? says producer "Should we expect a similar sort of wait for the next series or are you tempted to try and get it done in a year this time?" That was one of the cheekier questions from the audience at last night's...

Hmm better than the last episode but it seems they've decided to focus on the characters rather than the detection... and it just isn't as good that way. Hopefully there's a payoff to come in the last episode.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others - Groucho Marx

It seems like the new Kim is coming up with ever more inventive ways of removing his rivals - assuming this isn't a fake story "According to the report, unlike previous executions of political prisoners which were carried out by firing squads with machine guns, Jang was stripped naked and...

Dune is one of my favourites. The designers did a great job with all the factions from the book getting appropriate powers, e.g. playing as Bene Gesserit you can freak out the other players because if you correctly predict who will win and when, you win instead of them.

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Cumberbatch is A-list in terms of talent. Like a lot of the top British actors he started in theatre with some TV work, he'd got awards and nominations for both years before Sherlock. In films I think he's alternating between doing commercial stuff to pay the bills (Hobbit, Star Trek) and more...

IIRC its a complicated issue of licensing. If it's mentioned in the LOTR then they can include it. If it's in the Hobbit they can't because they don't have the license for it. Obviously there's some overlap, so it's a gray area and Warner's lawyers probably told them to play it safe. There's...

We're lucky to be able to get Benedict Cumberbatch on public-funded TV, especially given how many films (15 since 2010), TV , theatre and radio stuff he does. It's a good job he enjoys working on the show so much, so make the most of it while it lasts.

Very minor spoilers in the link A Doctor Who Christmas: farewell Matt Smith and hello Peter Capaldi "Smith, the youngest ever actor to play the Time Lord, bows out in spectacular style...but the show, the first full appearance by The Thick of It star Capaldi in the role, which celebrated...

How to stick Windows on your Steambox How to stick Windows on your Steambox (it's pretty straightforward) | Ars Technica Note this is setting up a dual boot system, using a second hard disk for the Windows installation and grub to choose which OS to run.

I know it's only an alpha but I like most of what I've seen of it, and it's good that the old Elite "3d" radar is back

/derail: speaking of minorities, that reminds me of the Philipsburg Proclamation, where the British (growing desperate) declared all slaves free during the War of Independence and 100,000 attempted to flee to them, including one of George Washington's slaves - not that it did most of them much...

There've been a number of explanations for it over the years. I like the one that had him going in back in time to sabotage the Tardis so that it wouldn't be able to change shape, which would explain why his earlier incarnations had so much trouble trying to fix it. I also like the one where...

And in all that time he (or the Tardis) never gets round to fixing the Chameleon Circuit

Possibly the most irritating person to ever be on TV Just William Series 2 and Complete Series out now! - YouTube

New series starts on New Years Day... Twitter / kirk_skirk: #sherlocklives http://t.co/70cilLQwRT Not sure about the 'tache #SherlockLives - Sherlock Series 3: TV Trailer - BBC One - YouTube

Fighter Within review: 1/10 "J**** f***ing wept" Fighter Within review Eurogamer.net

Doctor Who sets record for BBC America The US broadcast of Doctor Who's 50th anniversary episode The Day of the Doctor was watched by an average of 2.4 million, a record for BBC America...Despite having a Saturday afternoon slot in the US, the show achieved BBC America's best ratings, with a...

Sherlock series 3 Christmas broadcast confirmed "The BBC has confirmed that the year?s biggest television mystery will be answered over the Yuletide period with the confirmation of the return of Sherlock in the Radio Times Christmas double issue. This means the first episode, The Empty...

Yes, although Archet is the most "out of the way" of the starting areas :P From Archet you go to Combe(?) and then take a ride to West Bree. From West Bree you can reach the other starting areas by fast travel - Celondim is the elf place. Each starting area has a different start to the epic...

Taken from:Selected Topic "The Codemasters to Turbine account transfer service for players of The Lord of the Rings Online? is now closed. It is no longer possible to transfer European Codemasters accounts to Turbine's billing system. We no longer have any ability to assist with any former...

It's pretty straightforward MMO stuff, you shouldn't have much trouble with the basics. A 64 bit operating system will help if you want to run the highest definition textures, otherwise you can expect crashes during transitions unless you dial things down. Make sure you open the gift box...

Now this was funny: BBC iPlayer - The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (it will be out there somewhere if you can't get to iPlayer - these are the Doctors who didn't make it into the 50th episode... but keep watching right to the end...)

The show is vague and contradictory about the relationship between Time Lords, Gallifreyans, and regenerating. Time Lords come from Gallifrey, but Rassillon altered their DNA (or Time Lord equivalent) to allow them to regenerate, so does that make them a separate species? In some lore they can't...

The Zygons provided some comedy with Tennant. The main thing was for Hurt to see his later selves creating a peaceful solution and stopping a decision similar to the one he was about to make on Gallifrey. The fact that the Zygons can shapeshift combined with everyone in the room losing their...

Ahh the Master with moustache... and goatee *edit and time locks* ;-) The 3rd Doctor vs The 1st Master 1972 - YouTube Loved the 50th ... a lot to think about in that and I don't think it will all make sense (like what happens to the Master now...) but for the sheer fun they had with...

As a real outside bet maybe the Black Guardian gets involved since he hates the Doctor and can mess with time in a big way. That is if the guardians are even still around. More likely Black Wolf Rose brings the two Doctors together to oppose(?) the War doctor, who is somehow released by what...

FromHardware Test: Xbox One Eurogamer.net andHardware Test: PlayStation 4 Eurogamer.net XBone heat output varies from 35C idle to 49 C while gaming. PS4: 40C idle to 45C while gaming

It's on the BBC iplayer: BBC iPlayer - An Adventure in Space and Time

Sony Pictures will make a "significant shift" away from movies after it backed a number of high-profile misfires, including Will Smith's After Earth....The studio aims to cut its release schedule from 23 films per year to 18...Putting some of the blame on the crowded blockbuster season, Sony...

Doctor Who 50th: Peter Davison set to bring back classic Doctors with comedy mini-episode "Peter Davison is writing and directing a special mini-episode featuring past incarnations of the Time Lord. Listed as the The Five(ish) Doctors, the 15-minute comedy will debut on the BBC Red Button...

Not unexpected... Ryse: 5/10 "As repetitive and shallow as it is, Ryse is always blandly playable... there's nothing like enough substance to the gameplay to tempt you to run the campaign on another difficulty setting or to lure you into long-term engagement with the two-player arena mode...