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Possibly because I'm a heartless, sick fuck bastard, that's why.

My favourite bit of 'Buffy' dialogue, bar none, delivered perfectly by the great James Marsters (who was 50 recently). I'm so glad that Joss Whedon re-thought his original idea of having Spike appear in only a couple of episodes.

What you have to understand, if you have not read the original stories, is that Mycroft Holmes is a very large, corpulent gentleman - exactly as shown in the 'Sherlock' Christmas special, which I think must have bewildered a great number of viewers, used to Mark Gatiss' usual portrayal of him as a fussy, elegant and normal sized man. When I saw the 'proper' Mycroft, I actually cheered. I believe that Mark Gatiss has based his Mycroft on Christopher Lee's version of the character from the 1970 movie 'The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes' (a wonderful movie), where Mycroft is secretive, more than a little sinister, urbane and witty, and obviously fond of his younger brother, but not showing it.

For those of you not familiar with 'Dalek speak', they measure their time in 'Rels'. As far as I know, a Rel is equivalent to a second.