Yessss I LOVE The Wire in the Blood, it's amazing <3 I've not seen all of it; I read quite a lot of crime fiction, and Val McDermid's books are fantastic, so when I found out they'd made a TV series based on them, I tracked down as many as I could. Tony Hill is a brilliant creation. I have to be in the right mood to watch, though; it gets a little too twisted and dark for me to watch sometimes, especially with stuff involving kids. I love that the episodes are so long, too; like Sherlock, the hour and a half means they can weave a proper, intricate story as well as having some great characters.
Also, to finally reply to your last message - I think because my parents both work with vulnerable people, they have special sympathy for people who work in jobs where tiny accidents can have massive reprocussions. Plus, I'm the most accident-prone person in the world and spent most of my early years in and out of hospital, so raising me has taught them that accidents just happen :p
Do you not feel really tired after a big meal? Hehe, there's a Garfield comic somewhere with Garfield saying "Sleep makes me hungry. And eating makes me sleepy. Life is good." and that applies to me in an embarassing way XD I can fall asleep wherever, which is really handy because I spend a lot of time travelling between Kent (uni) and Devon (home), which can take up to ten hours, so the ability to sleep on a train or coach is a useful one :D
I've not seen Robin Hood (I watched the trailer in a cinema with a friend who said "But that's not what happened! Robin Hood was a fox!"), but The Bucket List was a very sweet film. I really love Morgan Freeman. Even though I got him confused with Martin Freeman for the longest time XD
I haven't seen Dollhouse, either. What do you think of it? I've heard really mixed things. I'd like to watch it eventually because it's by Joss and has lots of alumni from his other shows, but the whole premise seems a little weird.
I'd like the Buffy memory loss episode more if Willow wasn't so silly in it (doing the spell moments after Tara told her not to) and the crushingly sad ending, but I suppose it's just amazing writing that can have a show be the funniest thing ever ("Why not call me Horny Giles, or Desperate-For-A-Shag Giles? I knew there was a reason I hated you!") to the saddest thing ever in like half an hour.
Aaaand The Butterfly Effect is another thing I've not seen. Seriously, you should make me a list and I'll spend the rest of my life watching it all :p I remember when I was doing Philosophy A-Level the other group got to watch it (in relation to the free will debate or something - it's about chaos theory or somesuch, right?) and we were annoyed because we had to do proper work and not watch films. The dog-burning bit sounds utterly awful, though >< I agree that cruelty to animals is one of the absolute sickest things ever, though; arguably worse than cruelty to humans because they can't understand it.
Oh, with the 'passive' superpower thing, I meant that (very broadly speaking) men tend to get powers that do stuff, like super strength or set stuff on fire, whereas women are more likely to get things like invisibility or the ability to run through walls. Obviously, there are a lot of exceptions, but the general trend annoys me, especially when the powers are meant to be randomly assigned.
Aaah, I see. I knew, with Misfits, their powers were meant to be reflexive of their personalities (the shy boy going invisible), but I didn't know they changed as the characters grew, that's pretty cool. I saw the first few episodes when they orignally aired on television, but then I think term started, and I came back to TV-less uni and stopped watching. I remember them killing their social worker.
Oh god, the Star Trek canon is so huge, I wouldn't have a clue where to begin, either. Everyone I've spoken to says that one series is so much better than another, and I read that it'd take something like three solid weeks to watch everything. I know pretty much nothing about it, though, except there are characters called Kirk and Spock. I keep meaning to watch the film they made recently, if only because Simon Pegg's in it XD
But I suppose lots of people feel like that with Doctor Who, with the giant fandom wars over who was the best Doctor, or, even worse, whether Old Who or New Who is better. The past week or so I've been watching and completely falling in love with The Sarah Jane Adventures. It's odd, because kid's TV usually annoys me (I love cartoons (Avatar <3), but child actors usually annoy me, always have), but TSJA is fantastic.
Breaking Bad is also now on my to-watch-before-I-die-list. The fact it has short seasons helps! Though you should get back watching TWW at some point - I complain about series 5 being no good, and I've just rewatched it, and it's actually not as bad as I remember, and has some fantastic episodes in. :D