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I haven't been introduced to Dottie yet, guess that's another thing to look forward to.

First episode aired in the UK last night, thought it was up there with the best of Marvel's output. Warmth and humour by the bucket load, thrills and mystery in all the right places. I spent ages trying to remember why I knew the name Vanko, and I just remembered, it was the name of the Russian scientist who worked with Howard and turned out to be a spy for the KGB. After years in exile, he raised his son to be as angry as him, and of course, the son ended up being Mickey Rourke in 'Iron Man 2'. Nice little continuity nod there.

The two seasons are so different that I'm not even sure they're comparable, although it's probably best to wait until the finale to think about that objectively. Round two has hardly anything in the way of referencing past events, no split narrative telling opposing sides of the story and no hints that it might be something more sinister, but every episode has left me wanting more which is always a good sign. I'm expecting it to unfold into something very exciting.

It didn't end with a bang like the first two episodes did, but it's starting to feel like this season is finding some focus. It's not just a case that no-one wants to be solved, it's one where people are actively being prevented from trying to solve it, and everyone has their own secondary mystery to add to the big mystery. I’m having trouble buying Vince Vaughn as this edgy, intense hardman, though. He looks like a man you wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of, but he doesn't have enough menace or conviction to make the character believable. Why does everyone hate Ani's e-cigarettes so much?

The show has also found its Elektra, in a French actress by the name of Elodie Yung. You may remember her from such films as GI Joe: Retaliation and District 13: Ultimatum.

A new trailer has been released for Fox's re-airing of all 201 original episodes, one a day, until the new series starts in January. It ends with a quick glimpse of today's Mulder and Scully.

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Also, do we get to see much of the Howling Commandos in season one? I had hoped for more of Dum Dum and the others after the first Captain America movie.

The roommate is Lyndsy Fonseca, right?

Mr Holmes. Why it's been marketed as a 'cold case' murder mystery is in itself a mystery, because it isn't that at all, it's actually a thoughtful character study of a retired Holmes. I liked it more from thinking about it afterwards than I did while I was watching it. Very gently laid out, but a very compelling portrayal by Ian McKellen.

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I was starting to think the seemingly throwaway remark about...

Very easily done, they only devoted about three seconds of exposition to it.

Marvel posted this 'TV spot' on their Twitter feed last night and quickly removed it soon afterwards, presumably because it was mildly spoileriffic. It doesn't give away anything about the story, but includes information about...

Marvel has released another new trailer ahead of the film's release later this month.

I had that same thought after... I've no doubt that they'll be throwing out a few more curveballs like that one between now and the finale, though.

That's interesting. If the plan is to have Carter cross the country for an assignment of some kind, it's probably safe to assume that not everybody will be coming with, unless they're going down the 'coastal hopping' route. It's possible that viewers could be put off a bit if Peggy (even though she's the title character) is the only returning cast member.

It was partially covered towards the end of the episode, but in a very 'blink and you'll miss it' kind of way.

I think ‘Mad Max’ is to the post-apocalyptic genre what ‘Blade Runner’ is to sci-fi. Watching them now, you feel like you've seen almost everything in them a thousand times before, and truthfully you have, but it’s because so many people have since conceptualised their love of both movies that they've come to feel so familiar. Almost everyone who made a sci-fi piece after 'Blade Runner' cribbed from it, while the imagery of Max has been borrowed by everyone from Duran Duran to Beyonce. The 'Fallout' series has pretty much been a love letter to ‘Road Warrior’ and its desert wasteland setting since the first game, right down to the single-sleeved leather jacket you can wear in-game.

Great news, hopefully I won't be too out of touch with the continuity by then. In a perfect world, Fox would take it one step further by obtaining the rights to the second season straight away and showing it 24 hours after the US broadcast, like they do with The Walking Dead.

It obviously wouldn't be the first time they'd utilised the dual time period ploy, I suppose they could do it again with a moustache-less Farrell. However, they've already gone into so much detail regarding Ray's backstory, much more so than any other character. He's the core of the show, both thematically and in terms of performance. Kitsch is still the most crudely two dimensional of the main cast so far, although I thought it was quite a nice touch to have Paul be the only one of the three cops who didn't react to the injuries on the corpse. He's seen some things, man, and some stuff. He wouldn't recommend it.

It wouldn't have helped, but I suppose it could have had just as much to do with Pearson's own antics over the last year or so. Leicester's turnaround towards the end of last season was quite remarkable, though. Despite his rough edges (to put it politely), I can't see him staying unemployed for long. As for his replacement at the Walkers, Steve Bruce comes highly recommended. By Steve Bruce.

The lack of blood seemed to suggest that it was probably just rubber shells, meant to disable rather than kill. Plus, if the Birdman really was going in for the kill, you'd think he'd have just put the gun to Ray's head while he was incapacitated. Either that or the upcoming episodes are going to be unbelievably heavy on flashbacks.