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jekesta's for the weekend to watch Eurovision with her and cakesy. Which was lovely. I was rooting for Iceland and Moldova and possibly Ireland, but Azerbaijan stormed through. Somehow. Also we watched MANY OTHER THINGS. I can now proudly say I have watched all of the paintball episodes of Community, and the latest Parks and Recreation (I am a fool to not keep up with it), and roughly half of Crusoe. Neither Crusoe nor Friday are kings of Narnia (probably). But that doesn't mean it would have been weird for them to make themselves crowns.
Alsojekesta watched Vera with me, which was lovely of her. Now she too knows how lovely Vera and Joe are, and how slightly incompetent at being police they sometimes are. Also I saw some of Summer Holiday for the first time, and was only squicked out by some of it, and while cakesy was there we saw one of the weirdest episodes of Columbo ever. Apparently if you date the main witness of a murder you commit, you can nearly get away with pretty much anything. Also, sharks help solve crime. Fact. Um. Sort of.
Anyway. We also watched So You Think You Can Dance (oh, Rithy), and Doctor Who. Well.
Well, not being a fan of Doctor Who or Neil Gaiman, I was never exactly in an unbiased position while watching this. These are my positives:
Apart from that. Well. There's a couple of things I generally expect from Neil Gaiman. One is a possibly interesting idea done in a slightly uninspired way. Another is the sort of torture or endangering of female characters. And I think his love of turning abstract thing into human-like figures, and love of weird costuming (see Neverwhere) is fairly well-known. And I saw pretty much all of those things in this episode. People have said something about Amy and Rory being tortured in those corridors, but I'm not convinced they were, it seemed pretty clear that what Amy was seeing was a hallucination and Rory didn't act like he'd seen any hallucinations at all. So it was really just Amy who was wandering around being frightened by visions. The woman whose body the TARDIS was in never got a mention after she got possessed, right up until she died, and the TARDIS, for all her usefulness, was put into a dying body she wasn't very used to, and needed the Doctor to save her. Also at one point the Doctor started shouting, and I thought for a terrible moment that we were going back into Tennant territory. But happily that stopped after a minute or so.
Apart from that, I don't know. I agree withjekesta and cakesy that it's better than it was when Russell T Davies was writing it, in that I didn't want to punch myself in the face. But I didn't really notice any of it either. It's nice that the Doctor got to talk to the TARDIS. If he wanted to. I guess.
On the other hand, I did go last night and dig up some TARDIS/Rory and slightly abusive Doctor/Rory fic, despite not knowing that much about Season 5 or Rory. And that was wicked.
Anyway. I'm back now. I got the Settle-Carlisle line back to Leeds, which sadly now appears to be the Leeds-Carlisle line. It was still lovely though. There were all sheep and lambs in the fields, often getting spooked by the train running past. I quite love the train journeys to and from Lancaster.
In other news, money. After accidentally leaving a gap in my sick notes and not hearing anything from the Department for Work and Pensions about it, I wasn't sure how much I had last week. So I checked just before going to Lancaster, tomake sure I had enough for train tickets and food and stuff, and they had totally paid me, and I had £300. I'm pretty sure I have quite a lot less than that now though. After going straight out to New Look to buy some clothes I'd been wanting but didn't think I could afford, and then some random bits of jewellery from Topshop, and then some t-shirts when Threadless reprinted some designs I'd wanted. But I'm hoping to keep it a bit more under control from now on, and I should be getting paid again on Thursday anyway. Yay.
In other news, next week isn't looking like it's going to be a fun week for me. I was thinking last week that it was going to be tough, because I had a doctor's appointment that week, then my first new counselling session, then my disability assessment, then my confidence course. But then I remembered that no, my doctor's appointment was this Friday, so it wasn't so bad. Then this morning I got a letter from my doctor, saying that sadly my doctor's appointment on Friday would have to cancelled, so could I call up to arrange another. I called up and the earliest they can see me is next Monday. So it is pretty much going to be like I thought it was going to be. Hmph.
Also, re: this week's Oglaf: askdfjklasdfhjkasdfnhj what?
jekesta's for the weekend to watch Eurovision with her and cakesy. Which was lovely. I was rooting for Iceland and Moldova and possibly Ireland, but Azerbaijan stormed through. Somehow. Also we watched MANY OTHER THINGS. I can now proudly say I have watched all of the paintball episodes of Community, and the latest Parks and Recreation (I am a fool to not keep up with it), and roughly half of Crusoe. Neither Crusoe nor Friday are kings of Narnia (probably). But that doesn't mean it would have been weird for them to make themselves crowns.Also
jekesta watched Vera with me, which was lovely of her. Now she too knows how lovely Vera and Joe are, and how slightly incompetent at being police they sometimes are. Also I saw some of Summer Holiday for the first time, and was only squicked out by some of it, and while cakesy was there we saw one of the weirdest episodes of Columbo ever. Apparently if you date the main witness of a murder you commit, you can nearly get away with pretty much anything. Also, sharks help solve crime. Fact. Um. Sort of.Anyway. We also watched So You Think You Can Dance (oh, Rithy), and Doctor Who. Well.
Well, not being a fan of Doctor Who or Neil Gaiman, I was never exactly in an unbiased position while watching this. These are my positives:
- Karen from Coronation Street, yay!
- I quite liked the "Biting is like kissing, except there's a winner" line.
- I quite liked that the TARDIS thought Rory was the Pretty One. That's mostly because I quite like attractive, young, slightly clueless male characters, and I quite like more powerful/knowledgeable characters or beings taking a liking to them. It's a fairly general kink/liking of mine, which in fairness to the show, Doctor Who has often appealed to in the past
Apart from that. Well. There's a couple of things I generally expect from Neil Gaiman. One is a possibly interesting idea done in a slightly uninspired way. Another is the sort of torture or endangering of female characters. And I think his love of turning abstract thing into human-like figures, and love of weird costuming (see Neverwhere) is fairly well-known. And I saw pretty much all of those things in this episode. People have said something about Amy and Rory being tortured in those corridors, but I'm not convinced they were, it seemed pretty clear that what Amy was seeing was a hallucination and Rory didn't act like he'd seen any hallucinations at all. So it was really just Amy who was wandering around being frightened by visions. The woman whose body the TARDIS was in never got a mention after she got possessed, right up until she died, and the TARDIS, for all her usefulness, was put into a dying body she wasn't very used to, and needed the Doctor to save her. Also at one point the Doctor started shouting, and I thought for a terrible moment that we were going back into Tennant territory. But happily that stopped after a minute or so.
Apart from that, I don't know. I agree with
jekesta and cakesy that it's better than it was when Russell T Davies was writing it, in that I didn't want to punch myself in the face. But I didn't really notice any of it either. It's nice that the Doctor got to talk to the TARDIS. If he wanted to. I guess.On the other hand, I did go last night and dig up some TARDIS/Rory and slightly abusive Doctor/Rory fic, despite not knowing that much about Season 5 or Rory. And that was wicked.
Anyway. I'm back now. I got the Settle-Carlisle line back to Leeds, which sadly now appears to be the Leeds-Carlisle line. It was still lovely though. There were all sheep and lambs in the fields, often getting spooked by the train running past. I quite love the train journeys to and from Lancaster.
In other news, money. After accidentally leaving a gap in my sick notes and not hearing anything from the Department for Work and Pensions about it, I wasn't sure how much I had last week. So I checked just before going to Lancaster, tomake sure I had enough for train tickets and food and stuff, and they had totally paid me, and I had £300. I'm pretty sure I have quite a lot less than that now though. After going straight out to New Look to buy some clothes I'd been wanting but didn't think I could afford, and then some random bits of jewellery from Topshop, and then some t-shirts when Threadless reprinted some designs I'd wanted. But I'm hoping to keep it a bit more under control from now on, and I should be getting paid again on Thursday anyway. Yay.
In other news, next week isn't looking like it's going to be a fun week for me. I was thinking last week that it was going to be tough, because I had a doctor's appointment that week, then my first new counselling session, then my disability assessment, then my confidence course. But then I remembered that no, my doctor's appointment was this Friday, so it wasn't so bad. Then this morning I got a letter from my doctor, saying that sadly my doctor's appointment on Friday would have to cancelled, so could I call up to arrange another. I called up and the earliest they can see me is next Monday. So it is pretty much going to be like I thought it was going to be. Hmph.
Also, re: this week's Oglaf: askdfjklasdfhjkasdfnhj what?
