shadowhive

I probably should’ve done this post yesterday but ah well. I finally got round to watching the next Doctor Who ep from season 17 Thursday night, which was City Of Death.

I intended to watch it all in one go, but mum was still up and got invested in it, but was tired so I put the fourth part on Friday.

I definitely say that, if you’ve never seen old Who that this is one of the best episodes to start with. (It wasn’t mine, that was The Five Doctors, which is fun despite being kinda a misnomer.) Why? Because it’s such a fun story.

It’s set in Paris and it’s actually filmed there, which was a first for the series, so you get some nice scenery shots of the Eiffel Tower and various other Parisian landmarks. (It does make me wanna go there again, I did go as a kid but mostly to Disneyland and so didn’t remember much of Paris itself.) They end up stumbling on a plot to steal the Mona Lisa, which in turn is part of an even greater plot.

The main villain of the piece is Count Scarlioni, who is one of the best villains. Not only is there something fun about him, how he acts and dresses, but there’s also something tragic about about him. (Especially after watching new Who when the doctor is also the last of his kind.) Really all he wants to do is save his people, albeit in kinda an elaborate way.

And then there’s Duggan, who ends up tagging along with the Doctor and Romana during the story who is funny in a different way. He just kinda blunders about and punches people. It makes you wonder how on Earth he managed to be a detective.

And then the tardis manages to take the Doctor where he wants to go…. Not once, but twice, which is another completely wild thing.

But yeah it’s such a fun ep and I suspect it’ll be the favourite of the season. Everything just comes together so well for it, the acting, the guest stars, the story, everything just comes together.

Next time is gonna be Creature From The Pit which I remember… nothing about. Ok I remember one thing, from an ep of a insert Name Here which showed one of the creatures from it which…

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Other than that the past few days have been annoyingly low energy, which has led to me being blocked and unable to do things which is annoying. Bleh.

It’s been especially so with uni stuff which I’ve not felt able to focus on annoyingly. Although there was a video about the oceans to watch… narrated by Sigourney Weaver, which gave me flashbacks to Finding Dory

But there was a Wilbur stream yesterday, yay! And Dream uploaded a short lore video which I watched yesterday morning too which was very… Unf. Punz and Dream killing people over and over to test the revival book? Unf. Though it does raise further questions as much as it answers. (I really do need to watch more of the other lore videos)

And there was the last Father Brown of the series which, yay, had the gang all there together! And finally seeing Lady Felicia’s husband. Though I kinda hoped she’d have left him but no he decides to be honourable.

I have done one more badge on Pokemon so next is the team galactic hq (and I need to find all the rock climbing points I’ve missed). And I tried super Lucky’s Tale which is pretty fun so far, with cute little things.

I’m hoping tonight to watch Eternals, which I’ve not seen yet and then either watch Who special features or start Archive 81 on Netflix, which looks like it’ll be pretty spooky.

(And unrelated, but can Boris just resign now. In fact all the Tories should, they’ve proven how vile they are and this should be what finishes them. Although I somehow doubt it)