In red picty.... to me (I may well be the only one), your dissection of the review is looking like white knighting one of your favourites.
Questioning and offering alternatives during a negative review thread is a tired and trusted method of discrediting a negative review.
Take it on the chin picty,, your fave has got a red one,, she'll get over it quicker than you I suspect.
I asked a couple of supplementary questions to clarify. That happens all the time here. Open, explicitly not critical questions which Kerosene could choose to answer or ignore.
Then you and I got into it as we have on a couple of occasions recently. Fortunately you couldn't be wider off the mark on your choice of target to make accusations of WKing and favouritism. I met Phoebe once about three years ago and haven't seen her since. It was a good punt, the majority of it was devoted to the podging, but the post-punt chat revealed a way that our personal lives could intersect. I didn't think it was worth the risk and haven't seen her again. Besides, when have I been guilty of WKing?
Edit: Good thread though and lovely festive gathering.