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I love this podcast. I'm a fan of sci-fi and fantasy, and this one drew me in quite quickly. I'm on season 12 and get excited every time a new episode drops, it's that good.

Initially the focus is on Rust and what he faces as a courier in a dystopian setting, but over time you get to know a lot of other characters and they feel like friends to me now. The voice acting is brilliant and the story is compelling - I feel like I'm right there with them. At times I've found myself yelling out or holding my breath, and I'll catch myself thinking about the show at times and wondering how things will pan out. I love the sound effects too - I can really get a feel for the scenes, whether it's involving weapons, underground bunkers/tunnels or travelling.

I will be bereft if this one comes to an end!

I'll start by saying I have always loved Alien and Aliens, and even enjoyed Alien 3 to a large extent as a standalone. The first Prometheus was ok, but I didn't get on with the second and felt it robbed me of the previously proposed sequel to Aliens involving Biehn et al.

I really enjoyed the way Romulus built up. The setting from the beginning was very reminiscent of the original Alien film and I was delighted to see lots of those elements throughout, including facehuggers, xenomorphs and synthetics. I thought it was really well done, so whoever was involved in scenery, lighting, sounds and special effects needs recognition - I really enjoyed those aspects. My only sticking point was I found some of the spinning in space scenes hard to watch as it was like my eyes couldn't quite follow or focus on anything.

I wasn't keen on some of the characters and found myself hoping for their demise at times - I just wasn't rooting for them, and I'm not sure if part of my disconnect is because they all seemed so young and brash, or because there really didn't seem to be much character development or backstory offered. It didn't seem like more than 5 minutes between them first being on-screen to them being thrust into the action, so I'd have liked maybe a bit more build-up there - I don't know how much ended up being cut out, because I'm sure there would have been a lot of work put into the characters that didn't seem to make it onto the big screen. I do remember thinking that the actor playing Andy was incredible, and they were probably my favourite character.

Most of the film itself was really enjoyable for me, and I even jumped a couple of times. It had that really good edge-of-the-seat or hands-to-the-face feeling, and think it was largely well done. There were certainly a few obvious nods to Alien that I'll not spoil but did make me smile.

I wasn't keen on the delivery of a certain one-liner, but I can appreciate its inclusion even if it wasn't how I'd have liked it.

But then the last 10 minutes happened and I came away thinking "WTAF did I just watch?" The ending just ruined it for me. I won't spoiler it, but a combination of things happened in a very short space of time and I genuinely wish I could erase them from my mind. It took this film from what could have been up there with the original greats and reduced it to a fever dream. I actually fell about laughing when discussing it while leaving the theatre. Again, I won't spoil it but crikey, it felt very clichéd and to me cheapened an otherwise brilliant film by trying to include too many elements all at once.

I really enjoyed this show, and I've watched a lot of cooking shows over the years. I thought the addition of "Cheffy" was brilliant - comes across as almost psychopathic at times, and I loved it. There was a bit of a post-apocalyptic feel to it somehow, and I thought there were a lot of unique qualities that kept me guessing throughout.

I really hope there's another series because it was refreshing to watch and I binged the whole thing in two days.

Only thing I'd like to add is I'd love to see more plant-based cooking in these shows, because there could be so much creativity potential there and I think it would help keep that edge.