…and loathed Charley. I expected to like her. I certainly tried. I'm not even sure what I loathed so much, apart from her magical sparkly rainbow touch from upstairs that gave the meaning to the scullery maid's life!!!11!! I just did. I wanted to reach into my own sound card and hit her.
Yet I like Peri and even Mel, mostly, companions I really should hate and even tried to and who certainly get some right craptastic stories. NOT FAIR.
I should like Charley. Fandom told me. I feel like a bad fan. :(
Quite liked the time loop, though. Would have been skeerier had it been some impersonal, dispassionate topological feature of Time trying to catch the Doctor and Charley in a loop to keep their paradoxness safely out of the way of things, like the Chronovores from Father's Day only less OTT, but still. And Eight's deadpans FTW.
(If I take enough cough syrup, will I like it on a second listen?
All signs point to "listen to Loup-Garoux" instead.)
ETA: The Dark Husband FTW, THO. And I'm only five minutes into it. ILU, HEX.