Thank you dear in-laws for spoiling my Christmas.
(NO End of Time spoiler in this part of the post, by the way, so no worries)
To make it short, it is very difficult to get to the TV at Jon's parents'. Main reason : Jon's dad, who owns the remote and switches to whatever channel he wants to watch, without asking for anyone's opinion. Basically, the only time Jon and me ever got to see what we wanted - except when his parents were away - were last year, for Doctor Who's Christmas special. We "booked" it a week in advance.
We did the same thing this year, and this year again Jon's dad promised us to let us watch our show - he would probably be asleep after the HUGE Christmas dinner anyway.
So everything was going on ok. We did (well, Jon did, mostly) all the jobs that were asked from us. All of them. We were (well, I was, mostly) kind to everyone. We did not mind getting ignored/patronized by Antony (Jon's mean older brother, also cold the Grouch). All we were asking for was an hour, no, even 50 minutes of TV.
We did get them. Except that at the last minute the Grouch and his wife (who from this moment I might start calling the Goose) decided to invite themselves over for another hour and to cackle away in the sitting room (where the TV was). And when they realized that we were watching something and what we were watching, the only reaction was from the Grouch himself : "oh, fucking Doctor Who..." which was followed later by mean comments from the Goose about how crazy and stupid this show is (well, she did not say stupid, but she did not need to say it).
So the result was that we did get to watch the show, but we did not get to hear half of it, which really upset me because I had kind of been expecting that for a year. Plus I missed great moments which would really have been GREAT if I had been able to hear what people were saying.
Well all we have to do now is to wait till we can watch it again...
-> John Simm. JOHN SIMM !
-> I wanted the Master back. I got 7 billions Masters back. OMG THIS ROCKS !!
-> TFW Obama o.O why did they have to put him there ? I mean up to now they did not really care about whether or not the Earth parts of the show were up-to-date with reality... plus I always feel a bit uncomfortable with "copies".
-> Timothy Dalton ! I mean Timothy Dalton ! But... WTF ? Time Lords ? Did I really get the end right ? (actually I did not hear a word of what he was saying thanks to the Goose who was cackling very LOUDLY at that time so I REALLY need to watch it again...)
-> and last but not least... Am I the only one who thought the Master was going to kiss the Doctor ? Come on. I know I'm not.
To make it short, it is very difficult to get to the TV at Jon's parents'. Main reason : Jon's dad, who owns the remote and switches to whatever channel he wants to watch, without asking for anyone's opinion. Basically, the only time Jon and me ever got to see what we wanted - except when his parents were away - were last year, for Doctor Who's Christmas special. We "booked" it a week in advance.
We did the same thing this year, and this year again Jon's dad promised us to let us watch our show - he would probably be asleep after the HUGE Christmas dinner anyway.
So everything was going on ok. We did (well, Jon did, mostly) all the jobs that were asked from us. All of them. We were (well, I was, mostly) kind to everyone. We did not mind getting ignored/patronized by Antony (Jon's mean older brother, also cold the Grouch). All we were asking for was an hour, no, even 50 minutes of TV.
We did get them. Except that at the last minute the Grouch and his wife (who from this moment I might start calling the Goose) decided to invite themselves over for another hour and to cackle away in the sitting room (where the TV was). And when they realized that we were watching something and what we were watching, the only reaction was from the Grouch himself : "oh, fucking Doctor Who..." which was followed later by mean comments from the Goose about how crazy and stupid this show is (well, she did not say stupid, but she did not need to say it).
So the result was that we did get to watch the show, but we did not get to hear half of it, which really upset me because I had kind of been expecting that for a year. Plus I missed great moments which would really have been GREAT if I had been able to hear what people were saying.
Well all we have to do now is to wait till we can watch it again...
-> John Simm. JOHN SIMM !
-> I wanted the Master back. I got 7 billions Masters back. OMG THIS ROCKS !!
-> TFW Obama o.O why did they have to put him there ? I mean up to now they did not really care about whether or not the Earth parts of the show were up-to-date with reality... plus I always feel a bit uncomfortable with "copies".
-> Timothy Dalton ! I mean Timothy Dalton ! But... WTF ? Time Lords ? Did I really get the end right ? (actually I did not hear a word of what he was saying thanks to the Goose who was cackling very LOUDLY at that time so I REALLY need to watch it again...)
-> and last but not least... Am I the only one who thought the Master was going to kiss the Doctor ? Come on. I know I'm not.