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So thankfully I am feeling much better, I’m probably about 75-85% better. I’m still a little drained and tired, but I’m able to eat again and have walked Naryu twice now.

I did consider if I was well enough to see Sonic 3 today but decided against it. If I wasn’t going alone I might have done, but alone? I didn’t wanna risk it. Plus it would’ve been so peoplely and I’m not sure I could have handled that. (And both Leia and Naryu were determined to keep me in bed!). Thankfully it’s being shown at the cinema from Friday at 1:30 so I should be able to see it before the biopsy (which’ll probably render me inactive)

One annoyance from the sickness is I’d hoped to do some ficcing (I’d four fics I hoped to work on and I expected to get two done) but alas I’ve stalled due to being drained and Christmas will no doubt distract me. Bah. Same for watching stuff. I’d hoped to finish Stranger Things season 2 and watch Tarot but… again nup. Hopefully before the year is out.

Anyway today I ended up watching a few films, though I zoned out for ghostbusters, and then watched the top of the pops 98 Christmas special cause it was on bbc4 and that was… a wild experience, but it also makes me feel so ancient. There was a wild run of songs going from Angels, to C’est La Vie and then Horny, followed by the reminder that Chef from South Park was number 2 in the charts that year. Crazy times.

Tomorrow is gonna be another draining day. We have to pic up a Christmas food shop so we’re going at Sainsbury's and aldis (at the horrendous hour of 6:30) so that’ll be draining and I’m not looking forward to that.

Then there’s a run of 6 things on tv in the afternoon/night (White Christmas, Doctor Who proms, Ghostbusters Afterlife, Bake Off Christmas special, Madame Blanc Christmas Special and the new ghost story for Christmas).

Then it’s Christmas itself which isn’t gonna be special but at least there’s the Doctor Who special and the new Wallace And Gromit! Both which look really good. (There was a thing about Aardman on tv the other day from years back which was really good).

But speaking of Who…

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There’s been some new Who things lately but sickness has meant I’ve not posted about them.

First there’s a new animation been announced, this one for The Savages which is Steven’s last episode. I didn’t even know that until the announcement post. Honestly I know absolutely nothing about this episode so that makes me real curious.

Also announced was the next blu ray collection! I suspected it’d be a third doctor one and it is! It’s season 7! That seems like a good choice after tonight’s showing of The War Games. It’s like the last boxset, only four stories but I’m looking forward to seeing them again. Ambassadors Of Death is one I’m curious to rewatch cause I’ve no real memories of it, while the rest I remember more clearly.

And I just know the special features will give me feels again.

Lastly there’s tonight’s thing, the aforementioned The War Games in colour. Someone in the comments of the Doctor Who twitter made a good point, ‘if you want to make an old story 90 minutes why not do it with episodes that’s close to that length’. And they have a point. While there’s a lot of long episodes in the second and third Doctor eras there are still some four parters that could be made into 90 minutes very easily (just cutting the opening and closing titles and recaps would do that). But I digress.

It’s been forever since I’ve seen the full length version which meant I went in pretty blind. Obviously it’s been trimmed down a lot though. The original is 10 parts and this version works out at being the length of 4. That’s a lot of stuff that’s been cut! At times it does feel like there’s not much more to breathe, that is a bit of a rush. But since I’ve not seen the original in so long it’s hard for me to say what’s actually been lost.

But personally, I think they’ve done a good job with it, it feels better than the daleks in colour from last year and it feels like it tells the main story well. (Of course with so much gone comparing the two will probably reveal too much was cut, which I’ll definitely concede.)

I will say that whatever you may think about the length (or the noticeable additions, more on that later) that the colourisation team have done a fantastic job. The work they have done is amazing and I loved seeing the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe in full colour. (And they’re such a fantastic team together, I really do love them all).

The story as a whole still works pretty well and there’s both likeable characters and despicable ones but they’re all played really well.

Now I did mention there’s some additions which are very noticeable that they couldn’t be missed. There’s been new exterior shots of Gallifrey, based on the new series depiction of it which I don’t really mind. However there’s two things that are gonna be really controversial. First there’s the addition of the Simms era master music when the war chief is on screen, which heavily implies that he is the Master. No doubt that has been a fan theory before, they do share similar traits but this seems to take that theory as fact now.

The second one is when the second doctor is shown other faces he’s instead shown obvious promo photos of 12, 10, 11 and 13. This was something I didn’t like and I feel others won’t either. Maybe it would’ve been fine if it was just one of them but four?

But overall I did think it was a good adaption. I’m curious if they’ll do a colourisation of something else for next year too (I suspect a cyberman or ice warrior ep, though hopefully it’ll be a four episode thing instead of a long one).

Anyway I’m gonna bundle up with the baby girl (Midna, she’s curled on my lap), mayeb try and fic or just plain snooze.

I hope everyone has a stress free festive time (or regular week).