Honestly, even though on some intellectual level I know it is never going to live up to the hype in my head, I am so ready for this:

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...would have been a strangely apt title for this story. It was also the title of a long-ago BBC comedy-drama series which I believe provided an early breakthrough role for the young David Tennant. Although I don't think I've ever seen it. I have, however, seen his epic turn around the same time as a transvestite barmaid in Rab C. Nesbitt.

I digress ( Read more... )

To sort-of quote one of Eleven's more embarrassing friends, this isn't the end. It isn't even the beginning of the end. It's merely the end of the beginning...

Or to put it another way, it's the last part of Pond Life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxXAY7LyjcM

In which all is not well in the House of Pond. I think this is our direct intro into the ( Read more... )

Not being one for changing horses in mid-stream, I'm plunging on with today's instalment of Pond Life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikv0QbubV7Y

In which the Doctor and Amy seem to have no problem with the concept of forced labour, although Rory, to his credit, feels bad about it...a bit...as he tucks into his Full English. Good lad, that.

It ( Read more... )

I notice my flist seem to have got bored of "Pond Life". It's not exactly the greatest thing Who has ever produced, I'll admit. Still, this might raise a sort of apathetic half-smile (and spot the perhaps-sorta oldschool Who in-joke):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm0dqb7rKpk

So, to recap yesterday's rambling narrative, I was just saying that, as ( Read more... )

Ah well, in for a penny, here's the second chunk of "Pond Life", if you haven't already seen it and have absolutely nothing better to do with your time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQZc9DzneUI

( Tangentially-related ramblings follow )

Good to see the Doctor's taking that "staying under the radar" thing seriously:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtfvf7j9WKI

Only five days to go...

Again, me and my off the cuff responses to things I've seen in't papers, but my response to seeing the Guardian's much-hyped "first official picture" from the impending new series of NuWho:

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( AND EVEN MORE SPOILERY SILLINESS )

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE ELEVENTH HOUR - DON'T READ UNLESS YOU WANT TO GET SPOILED!!

Okay, so after the third watch of The Eleventh Hour (yeah, that's right), I've managed to scrape together some semi-coherent thoughts on this. Don't expect anything other people haven't already observed, probably more eloquently, but here goes:

( Pathetic Squeeage Follows - you've been warned! )