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- Doing work, eating a chicken and cheese tamale, listening to Glenn Miller (yes, really. yes, I'm _that_ nerd. yes, I desperately want to update my swing dance skills now (although I'm not interested in that whole flashy trick thing, in part because I don't want to be the girl and in part because that is not even remotely a fashion in which I'm interested in becoming airborne)). For values of having to do work this would only be better if I could manage it with my feet up on the desk at the same time.

- Things I must do prior to Sicily: get sandals that hide my toes. Remember to pack shoes that aren't sandals for the climbing that fortress thing. Get Euros. Figure out about 800 gluten-related issues. Clean all my fencing gear.

- Watched the beginning of Doctor Who's second season last night.

The Christmas episode was really good in terms of moral issues and wow the new Prime Minister who was so cool so fucked that shit up. I thought the "six words" thing was about as chilling as anything I've ever seen on the show. This Doctor may seem more light-hearted but he also feels a lot more dangerous. That Christmas tree of death was about the stupidest shit I've ever seen though.

Question: Alex. I've seen a ton of fics where he and Jack had something going on briefly at one point. Is that later canon or did a whole bunch of people decide dark hair, good suits and efficiency was somehow Jack's type?

Meanwhile, New Earth upset me despite having the biggest world building hole ever (if these people were grown in vats and then immediately locked in these tanks to have diseases, how the hell did they have language?) Also the Face of Boe thing went nowhere, and if I was watching the episode without the knowledge I already have, I'd be like "what the hell?" and not in a good way. Cat nuns are creepy. And the scene at the end at the party where Cassandra gets told she is beautiful? That was amazing and made me cry. That said, having compassion for Cassandra wasn't really on my list of things to do last night.

- Question of the Day. If it can't kill you is it still a delicacy?. Personally, I think that goes way beyond fish.

Comments

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

This one feels like a guy with nothing left to lose

Yes. And yes, the six words thing was something I found very chilling, almost like your brain throws on the brakes and says, "What the friggiity-frig? I thought the Doctor was all curls and teeth and happy go lucky?" And of course the downfall of Harriet Jones is a prelude to more bad coming. I really liked her character, I like that she's yet another woman in Who canon that is perfectly capable of making incredibly hard decisions and sticking by them, for better or worse. *And* yes, I also think she was wrong, but what she did was necessary and logical.

re: cat nuns
As an old school Whovian, I really really want the cat nuns to connect to the critters in Survival (the last Old World Doctor episode). I like the nuns, but - yeah. Creepy. Not sure why, but creepy.

There are a lot of holes in this episode, too many for me to say I really truly like it. Are you watching the Doctor Who Confidentials? You don't *need* to, but I'm curious what you think, if you are. (They definitely changed my feelings about Cassandra, for example - in a good way.)

[rm.livejournal.com]

What are the Confidentials?

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

Apparently each episode of the new Who has had a mini documentary kind of thing filmed for it - interviews with the actors, or some are David Tennant's video diaries.

I know Netflix has them.