This panel at NYCC was Friday October 12, 2012 at 1:30pm and the description was, “Want the scoop on the major players involved in Marvel NOW!? Axel Alonso (Editor in Chief), Tom Brevoort (SVP Executive Editor), Senior Editor Nick Lowe (Uncanny X-Men), Senior Editor Mark Paniccia, Mark Waid (Indestructible Hulk), Rick Remender (Uncanny Avengers), Kieron Gillen (Iron Man) and Arune Singh (Director of Communications) are on hand to give the 411on the Fantastic Four, FF, Hulk and much more!...

I’ve got a natural bias against any episode of Once Upon a Time that makes Belle the central character. I know it’s only 45 minutes that we’re expected to spend with Emilie De Ravin at the helm, but frankly, that’s 45 minutes longer than anyone should have to endure. To be fair, this isn’t entirely her fault (though her mediocre abilities, perma-scowl of dazed confusion, and perpetually sleepy/constipated appearance in the show’s periphery aren’t helping)....

1.1 Natural Selection & 1.2 Instinct The show’s concept is simple, Sarah Manning, played by a very capable Tatiana Maslany, witnesses the suicide of a woman to whom she bears a startling resemblance. In what is actually a series of well thought-out and reasoned moments, Sarah steals the women’s identity and starts to live her life. What she didn’t foresee was that the woman is a suspended detective, has various relationship issues and, importantly, that the detective was investigating a strange connection with several other women that also bear an astonishing resemblance to Sarah....

Toby Menzies’ continued powerfully strong performance and the brilliance of the writers who decided that exploring the six weeks after Claire’s departure from Frank’s perspective in 1945 was the way to go are the combined factors to blame for this alarming reversal that has me all being, “Jamie WHO?” What can I say? The course of true love never did run smooth, and the course of Frank and Claire’s love is rocky enough that I don’t even think it qualifies as a course....

Outlander Season 3 Episode 11 If you’re looking to determine how you feel about Outlander, this is a great episode to do so. Sure, there’s no Scotland, but it has pretty much everything else we’ve come to expect from this show: Claire as a stranger in a strange land. Medical horror. Awesome weddings. And steamy Claire/Jamie sex. “Uncharted” was all about this new chapter in Claire’s journey into the unknown, but I couldn’t help thinking these are all elements we’ve seen before....

Still, writing for this site does throw up some very welcome pleasures and unexpected treats. Meeting Christopher Lloyd last week was a massive highlight. Getting to watch an episode of Doctor Who in the same room as David Tennant was amazing. I might even get to watch Avatar on a ridiculous big screen before its released if I play my cards right. Paradox episode two was still shit, though. But!...

Funny. That was the first episode of Peaky Blinders in which Tommy Shelby didn’t have a gun pulled on him and now he’s scared. ‘That escalated quickly’ you might say, but you’d be stating the obvious. Escalating things quickly is Peaky Blinders’ specialism. In thirteen hours, we’ve watched Thomas Shelby go from shell-shocked claykicker to international arms dealer and—who knows—future lord mayoral candidate. Eat your heart out, Mr Chips to Scarface....

Let’s address the elephant in the room right away: this review may as well not exist. It is totally and utterly redundant. Films are often described as review-proof, but even in a time where film critics have less of an influence over box office than in previous years, it’s rarely actually the case. On Stranger Tides has the added bonus of being in 3D, which should add another few quid onto its box office....

6.8 FrAmed Seeing Hanna brazenly talk to her mother about Charles while walking down the street, or seeing news reports about these “five Rosewood teens” and their ordeal, changes the entire DNA of Pretty Little Liars right before it’s changed again by the big reveal and the time jump. But this is a show that’s driving headlong towards its conclusion and, for a show with mythology this dense, that takes some boldness....

Episode two is entitled ‘Circus Circus’, and attempts to parallel an actual Big Top experience with the less flamboyant chaos that encompasses the Pie Maker’s life. Chuck, the love of his life has moved out into Olive Snooks apartment, while Olivia is now resident in a Nunnery. Emerson Cod and Ned go to the Circus of Fun in search of a runway girl, ‘sweet Nikki’, while Chuck is left in charge of the Pie Hole....

In truth, it’s a bit uncomfortable to watch. Little has prepared us for this unexpected launch of Daniel 2.0 at the episode’s 2/3 mark, and rather than a surprising dramatic turn, the scene plays out like the document of an actor struggling desperately to justify his drastic change in mood and behavior. At last episode’s close, Daniel was a man for whom truth and memory had grown profoundly unstable. Trey Willis’ fiendish head-games had effectively planted a seed of doubt that began to eat away at Daniel’s very sense of self....

3.9 The Vengeance Factor Reasoning that the attack was performed by the Gatherers, an exiled and nomadic offshoot of the Acamarians, the Enterprise crew head to Acamar to meet with their sovereign leader, Marouk. Once she’s aboard, Picard convinces her to come with them to negotiate peace with the Gatherers and re-integrate them into society. She agrees to try, even though this doesn’t really seem like any of his business....

Yep, all the elements: same stars, same director … same story, really. Ben (Hart) is now a beat cop in the Atlanta PD, hoping to make detective one day and partner with his soon-to-be-brother-in-law James (Cube). When James has to go to Miami to follow a lead picked up off a recently arrested drug dealer, he decides to let Ben ride along again, if only so the little guy might finally realise he doesn’t have what it takes to be a detective and stop banging on about it....

Scream Season 2 Episode 5 No one was able to leave the school after the police put it in lockdown due to last week’s graphic reveal of Jake’s dead body falling before a traumatized and rather bloody Brooke. It was like a bizarre Breakfast Club where no one ended up leaving happy in the end and any sort of revelations were met with more questions and more pain. It was no shock that Emma started panicking, especially after she realized Jake’s phone had been planted in her backpack....

1.7 In The Trenches Last week, my premature RIP for Will had a question mark attached; this week, though, we can attach several exclamation points. In the last moments of the episode, Emma’s inadvertently homicidal tendencies take their most gruesome toll yet as, running to save Will from the large and rather hazardous-looking piece of farming equipment he’s strapped to, she trips a wire that initiates a mortal injury to Will that no amount of her duct tape can mend....

Thankfully, the magic is still there in Sense8 season two. While some viewers come to the series to be inspired by the transcendent mental bond shared by the eight strangers, and others love the message surrounding the acceptance of people’s differences and the globalist view of its themes, many also respect the Wachowskis’ artistic vision and cinematic style while others simply enjoy the narrative elements of this science fiction conspiracy tale....

The counter argument is a valid one, too. Silicon Valley’s second episode makes it clear that any good idea is worth stealing. If you want to thrive in the valley, you’ll have to find a balance between protecting your brand and letting the right people guide you along. Richard is now a commodity. He’s the ugly chick who’s now suddenly smoking hot with big tits and small nipples. “It’s about to get pretty fucking erotic in here,” says Erlich, who orders a stripper he was no intent of paying for....

Unfortunately, I have come back just in time for a far less capable episode about the not so sleepy village in Upstate New York. Rather, “Go Where I Send Thee…” mostly dances around its one truly great storyline development, which includes Frank Irving learning the depths of his nightmare, in favor of a Monster of the Week subplot. The result? A middling episode that coasted on the goodwill of Ichabod and Abbie’s charms....

4.11 Call Of Duty This episode is called Call Of Duty, which makes the cynical part of me think it’s some desperate product placement for everyone’s favourite first-person shooter. However, if you were to judge the two on the most recent episodes of both, Sons Of Anarchy should stick to telling great stories and Call Of Duty should stick to over the top explosions and shooting things. The reference for the episode title comes from a scene where Juice comments on a heavy weapons shipment being “Call Of Duty shit”....

4.9 Kiss With each episode, it is pretty clear that getting involved with drugs was a huge mistake for SAMCRO, but as Jax says in this episode, they voted for it, so they have to see it through to the end, or else leave the club.However, when the vote was made, they did not seem to know that they were getting into the middle of a drug war between two Mexican cartels....