Face it, this is the only thing involving football I'll be watching this summer

[nick730]

Is Murray Gold chanelling the Star Wars score at times this week? Anyway, the last two weeks on Doctor Who have been a bit of a swap-round in what you'd expect from the two writers: Richard Curtis taking on the Celebrity Historical that's been Gareth Roberts' specialty in recent years, while the latter gives us a sitcom/romcom this week with "The

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[freeze883]

There was a lot of Karen in the confidential this week (yep I didn't watch the football) and there was a lot more Amy this week than I expected. It was a nice surprise given we have had 6 episodes with River or Rory about. I've been really liking the good old Doctor/companion format of the past two/first three episodes. It gives me a chance to get attached to Amy.

I agree with the Doctor being more alien, I really love that it's shown as both good and bad this year. Yes he puts people in danger but with Ten I thought the alien = angst angle they had the last few years was a bit depressing. Nine was far from happy after the Time War but he was still joyful about things and I've missed that.

[nick730]

There was a lot of Karen in the confidential this week

After that Confidential I'm slightly afraid of going to Greenwich park in case The World's Most Hyperactive AstronomerTM jumps out from behind a hedge and starts enthusing at me.

[freeze883]

I thought it was kinda sweet in a way, wish I could care that much about my job.

[nick730]

Oh me too but my reaction was about 50% thinking she was adorable, 50% how long would it take before you wanted to throttle her?