shadowhive

Today’s Who Christmas special was Voyage of the Damned. Voyage can be described pretty simply: it’s the Poseidon Adventure but in space!

The TARDIS is hit by the Titanic! Except it’s not the Titanic, instead it’s a a spaceship with the same name. (Which looks so cool!) Of course it being Who disaster soon strikes, with the Doctor trying to lead a group of survivors to safety (albeit unsuccessfully).

The one off companion this time is Astrid Peth (played by Kylie Minogue), who is so sweet and it’s a bit of a shame what happens to her. She would’ve been a nice companion, full of wonder even at a London street. (A street which is wisely deserted after the last two Christmas’s.)

Filling a villain role are the Heavenly Hosts, robots which bare a more than passing resemblance to the titular Robots Of Death. They look impressive and fill the part well, and I love the halo’s as weapons. Of course they weren’t serve the main villain, Max Capricorn who must surely be the most petty of villains in the whole series.

There’s fun in Mr Copper’s ‘descriptions’ of Christmas, which is laughably wrong. And I do love this type of ep (theres not enough eps set on spaceships like this). And the ep is the best of the three Christmas ones so far… despite not really being Christmassy.

It ended with a trailer (which the last one didn’t for some reason) of series 4 which has so many great eps. (Though it made me wanna watch them again too, which I guess is the problem with such trailers)

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Yesterday we ended up going to the garden center, which ended up being a bit eh. It wasn’t helped that we stopped to look at the Christmas tree’s across the road from it, which would’ve been fine, but the dog they had there came loose and decided to attack Naryu which… wasn’t the best. She’s fine but it spooked her.

The garden center itself was ok. There wasn’t many animals (though there was a cute trio of Guinea pigs) and I almost got some cute little mushroom lights but didn’t.

Yesterday I’d hoped to do more when we came back but I got tired. And then later in the night my stomach felt woozy so I ended up going to bed earlier than I planned. I did watched Foolish get his ear pierced (damn he made such a fuss!) and saw Wilbur on Austin’s Flight. I don’t trust him to fly, but less than Tommy who on the previous one actively crashed the plane.

I’m curious what Wilbur’s new merch is going to be.

Today we waited in just in case there was a parcel. One was meant to be delivered yesterday while we were out so I thought they might try and bring it today. Alas no. After waiting and having noms tower went to the co-op to get some bits (mostly chicken for Naryu for Christmas).

Tonight’s plan is to snuggle, maybe fic, watch stuff and then… I dunno. Quackity is meant to be doing a driving stream with Foolish which I hope works (it was meant to be last night but there was issues) or maybe I’ll do the Quarry.