My Puzzling Year

 The manga graphic novel version of the Camus book -- weird and puzzling, yet intriguing and mysterious.  

 A surprise find for a fiver at Strange Apparitions. Written by James Robinson -- Starman! Drawn by Steve Yeowell -- Zenith! It's great. Cries out for a sequel but doesn't NEED it, I just want it because I love the characters and the plot and the writing and the art....

 Some classic episodes, but loses a little with Kryten's presence maybe.  Not as good as season two, better than season one though.

 Maybe the peak of the show, consistently funny and ingenious, some great SF plots too.

 It doesn't get any better.  Potentially two interesting interviews in the issue, but they are all surface, no depth.

 Didn't help this was missing the code wheel, but just then gave me an excuse to zip through the puzzle book -- ultimately, quite trivial puzzles of the ilk of pick one letter from two, or piece together a torn bit of paper, or do a timeline....so not a lot of deduction really, but ok diversion.

 Crap.

 Lovely and loved it.

 Too long to hold the story, which was quite light (as in not deep, not as in funny) given that the reason she was missing (or "Gone" if you will) was revealed really early on.

 It was OK.  Passed the time, and was....OK.

 A million times better than the boring old fans would have you believe, particular highlight being the Jake Sisko episode, and the Tilly return episode.  Could have done with more like that, and less obsessing with Caleb Mir who is such a boring character you just want him to actually leave.

 Sublime. Achingly, achingly, sublime.

 Totally went under radar, written off as just a police procedural until an article about the twist at the end of episode one piqued my interest and it turned into one of the best shows of the year.

 Did it all really come together in the end?  Is it plausible that from prison so much could be orchestrated. Did Max Beesley really only have a couple of days of filming allowed so had a much restricted role? Good fun throughout, great setup which peetered out a bit, not totally logical with losing track of trains and how long they could run in secret.  Lots of running around, but overall -- there would've been a much easier way to off the big bad from season one than go through this convoluted mess of a plan, which had so many moving parts, so many contrivances, it could've fallen to pieces so easily. Terrible plan, fun show.

 Ah, Wanted is so much better than Big Game. Either Millar is getting worse as he gets older, or Big Game was a cheap, quick buck, put together for no other reason than money. The very definition of it being ok to kill everyone in weird and wonderful ways if you're just going to hit up a time machine to reset it all. Problem being it was just so damn obvious.  Nothing that happened upfront carried any weight because you knew it was all be reset by the end of the book, and once you realise that (and this book has the subtlety of a brick so it takes probably six pages to realise it) then it's just going through the motions. Nice coda at the end though.

 Not quite what I expected from the previews and covers, quite fun but ultimately inconsequential. It's just a Guy Ritchie action movie, big characters and "laugh out loud" lines but no depth.

 More interesting than expected -- good insight and maybe halfway awareness that Macca isn't quite the paragon of virtue presented as...feels like more warts hiding behind the scenes.

 Beautiful, moving, fantastic.

 Really bloody irritating that it dropped an episode at a time. Characters a long way from when they first appeared in series one, and it does seem to have lost something along the way, in that focusing on a smaller core cast hits the problem if you don't actually find any of them sympathetic then....you don't care when they fight.  There are no stakes here.

 Recommended as a Kermode film to rewatch and nowhere near as violent as I'd believed. It's great.

 Not quite as ridiculous as series one, but also not quite as interesting or innovative.   Subtle psychology aspects for social side of things, meaning the game is so much less about what you can do than it is who you suck up to.

 Curiously felt the need to start a massive rewatch here BEFORE the passing of co-creator Rob Grant.  He went just after I finished this series, which is a typical British first season effort -- patchy, promising, not great, rarely funny, but a certain something about it which keeps it in the game rather than give up in disgust. Already at this point Cat is the best character by a mile -- fresh, funny, consistently brilliant.  Rimmer just annoying, none of the edges knocked off.  Lister a pain in the ass and not something you'd want in your corner. Interesting seeing a very young Mark Williams (Father Brown) and Robert Bathurst in roles -- and interesting how these guys went on to interesting and bigger things yet a number of other actors also in this series went ... seemingly nowhere.