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shadowhiveWell today has been a day.
I spent the morning downstairs, since I knew we had a delivery coming I just slept there. I finished watching The Clone Wars film since I started it last night and it’s pretty good in its own way. I wonder what happened to Rotta though. And, although I liked Ziro, his inclusion felt like it was added just to get Padme in there.
Anyway, the gas run out on the boiler which meant another long walk to get it topped up. Ugh. We decided we’d go after the redelivery and, since Naryu seemed to be more lively, we’d walk her as well. That was a relief, that she’s back to her usual self.
The delivery was, as expected, for Doctor Who Season 26. I sat down and read the booklet after lunch, which was pretty fascinating as always and I put on the first disc toaster. But that’ll come later.
We head down to Wryley in hopes of topping up the card at the place I did last time and... the machine was broken. I went to the post office and they still hadn’t got there’s. So I just went in the bigger co-op and then came home, it was frustrating to be honest and I vented about it on twitter to them about it. While finding the name of the place with the broken machine Though, I found a bit of luck. The Nisa just up the road came up in the store finder so I went up and paid there. It’s the same distance as the co-op so that’s good and it didn’t show up before because they just got it, problem solved.
After lunch I finished a fic, which was based on an idea that came into my head and wouldn’t leave. Then I read the aforementioned booklet, waited for the food shop and dozed.
The rest of the the night has been borderline irritating. I was watching my usual tv and my friend got harassed on twitter for posting about waycest which became a whole thing and I blocked a load of people. It made the waycest tag active again, but full of hate. It just pisses me off that people are, like that. Not only that but they attacked me as well, using posts from over a year which was irritating as hell. Ugh
Then Silent Witness had dementia which, well, it brings back bad memories, of my nan like that. It’s a horrible thing and I’ve vowed never to go like that. I’d rather die.
After that I put on the last Who ep because mum missed the start Sunday. She ended up dozing before the end though.
I then decided to put on the first of the season 26 episodes which was Battlefield.
I’ve not watched a 7th Doctor episode in awhile, in fact I can’t remember which was the last I watched. That’s a good thing I think for these rewatches. The blu ray has, for some reason, three different versions of battlefield. I went for the special edition one which is it all edited into one thing with updated effects.
It seems appropriate to watch this episode now in a way. The 7th Doctor was a period where episodes would try and add extra mystery to the Doctor. In this episode that came in the form of the Doctor being apparently, Merlin. It’s not been a thread picked up elsewhere yet (even in the audios according to the wiki) so I guess we’ll see if that ever happens.
The story is notable for bringing back the Brigadier after not appearing since the 5th Doctor. However he spends much of the early part of the story getting there so isn’t really part of the action. Instead we get a new Brigadier who seems a bit... well she doesn’t know the doctor for one, which you think would be essential knowledge for someone in her position. It was nice though to see UNIT being more multinational and old references, like Liz Shaw and Bessie.
As to the story it’s... well, parts are interesting but it’s not the best. Morgaine is a great performance but some of the others seem a bit... I dunno. The destroyer has great make up, but is only shown at the end and doesn’t really do anything other than look menacing got most of the time.
The booklet mentions it was meant to be three episodes but was padded out to four, which means it probably would’ve worked better that way. As it is, there were a few good parts but for the most part it’s just not terribly..l memorable I guess.
I’m gonna watch the special features disc tomorrow and, next week, watch eps on Monday nights as before. For now though I’m gonna snuggle then tomorrow fic.
I spent the morning downstairs, since I knew we had a delivery coming I just slept there. I finished watching The Clone Wars film since I started it last night and it’s pretty good in its own way. I wonder what happened to Rotta though. And, although I liked Ziro, his inclusion felt like it was added just to get Padme in there.
Anyway, the gas run out on the boiler which meant another long walk to get it topped up. Ugh. We decided we’d go after the redelivery and, since Naryu seemed to be more lively, we’d walk her as well. That was a relief, that she’s back to her usual self.
The delivery was, as expected, for Doctor Who Season 26. I sat down and read the booklet after lunch, which was pretty fascinating as always and I put on the first disc toaster. But that’ll come later.
We head down to Wryley in hopes of topping up the card at the place I did last time and... the machine was broken. I went to the post office and they still hadn’t got there’s. So I just went in the bigger co-op and then came home, it was frustrating to be honest and I vented about it on twitter to them about it. While finding the name of the place with the broken machine Though, I found a bit of luck. The Nisa just up the road came up in the store finder so I went up and paid there. It’s the same distance as the co-op so that’s good and it didn’t show up before because they just got it, problem solved.
After lunch I finished a fic, which was based on an idea that came into my head and wouldn’t leave. Then I read the aforementioned booklet, waited for the food shop and dozed.
The rest of the the night has been borderline irritating. I was watching my usual tv and my friend got harassed on twitter for posting about waycest which became a whole thing and I blocked a load of people. It made the waycest tag active again, but full of hate. It just pisses me off that people are, like that. Not only that but they attacked me as well, using posts from over a year which was irritating as hell. Ugh
Then Silent Witness had dementia which, well, it brings back bad memories, of my nan like that. It’s a horrible thing and I’ve vowed never to go like that. I’d rather die.
After that I put on the last Who ep because mum missed the start Sunday. She ended up dozing before the end though.
I then decided to put on the first of the season 26 episodes which was Battlefield.
I’ve not watched a 7th Doctor episode in awhile, in fact I can’t remember which was the last I watched. That’s a good thing I think for these rewatches. The blu ray has, for some reason, three different versions of battlefield. I went for the special edition one which is it all edited into one thing with updated effects.
It seems appropriate to watch this episode now in a way. The 7th Doctor was a period where episodes would try and add extra mystery to the Doctor. In this episode that came in the form of the Doctor being apparently, Merlin. It’s not been a thread picked up elsewhere yet (even in the audios according to the wiki) so I guess we’ll see if that ever happens.
The story is notable for bringing back the Brigadier after not appearing since the 5th Doctor. However he spends much of the early part of the story getting there so isn’t really part of the action. Instead we get a new Brigadier who seems a bit... well she doesn’t know the doctor for one, which you think would be essential knowledge for someone in her position. It was nice though to see UNIT being more multinational and old references, like Liz Shaw and Bessie.
As to the story it’s... well, parts are interesting but it’s not the best. Morgaine is a great performance but some of the others seem a bit... I dunno. The destroyer has great make up, but is only shown at the end and doesn’t really do anything other than look menacing got most of the time.
The booklet mentions it was meant to be three episodes but was padded out to four, which means it probably would’ve worked better that way. As it is, there were a few good parts but for the most part it’s just not terribly..l memorable I guess.
I’m gonna watch the special features disc tomorrow and, next week, watch eps on Monday nights as before. For now though I’m gonna snuggle then tomorrow fic.
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Date: 2020-01-29 08:42 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2020-01-30 08:13 pm (UTC)Jane Marsh is splendid as Morgaine but I've more trouble believing in Angela Bruce's Bambera but that's probably because the only other thing I've seen her in was when she was the female Lister in that episode of Red Dwarf and that's about as far as you can get from a career soldier :-) But as st_aurafina says above, Bambera and Ancelyn's flirting is lots of fun.
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Date: 2020-01-30 08:28 pm (UTC)Yeah Jane was great. And ah! That’s where I recognise her from. I’d not clicked it but she did seem familiar
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Date: 2020-02-01 08:48 am (UTC)How's your mum doing? All okay after her fall?
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Date: 2020-02-01 10:56 am (UTC)Yeah she’s better now🖤