shadowhive

So after Sunday’s nonsense yesterday was a bit better. I got my amazon order of Cal and the Star Wars book sorted (I dunno why they insisted on it though, it’s not been sent). I watched the video for uni in the morning and then the afternoon I just played Steamworld Dig 2 on the Xbox and dozed. I meant to read some of my book but I failed.

It’s felt like I’ve needed to decompress a lot lately. I take my glasses off, curl up and pull my blankie up over my head. Sometimes it leads to napping, other times I just lay there. It happens randomly, sometimes when I’m overwhelmed other times when I’m just tired. I know it’s probably a depression thing but it was annoying when it happened last night as I was trying to write. (Or when I was hoping to read.)

I did get the new Yooka-Laylee game yesterday, using some of the Xbox rewards points I had to get a fiver off. I got the preorder stuff cause of it and I’m hoping to start it later.

Last night, after the usual tv, I watched the last episode of Doctor a Who season 18, Logopolis. (I didn’t watch any of the special features as I got too tired, so I’m gonna watch some tonight. I know there’s some long ones.)

The episode’s a four parter and has a lot going on. It’s Tegan’s introduction, Nyssa returns and it’s the first episode of the new Master. Tegan’s introduction is a little odd, her involvement is a complete accident and she spends most of it lost in the Tardis until she gets back to the console room to Adric and the Doctor’s surprise. She does establish her character pretty well though. Nyssa returning also only happens at the end of a part (probably because she was a late inclusion) but her appearance adds weight to it due to her feelings towards the master. As for the master himself, this is one of the few episodes where he manages to cause destruction... although it’s completely by accident. (It’s noted that this episode, as a result, has the largest death toll of the whole series and all be accident...)

The episode also explains how the Tardis ended up in e-space at the start of the trilogy, which is a nice link, though it’s a shame Romana’s room got jettisoned. I dunno though, it’s not the best episode, but it’s not the worst either.

So that’s another full season watched. As I mentioned I’ll watch the special features on the disc, then the other disc (which includes K-9 and company) before starting the next season which is 23. I’ll be watching the new extended cuts on the discs, even though it’ll be awkward (seriously did they have to have them on separate discs?)

Now I’m gonna wait for the shopping and go onto the next kinktober fic

So I've had to order a new charger lead for my pad. The end of my current one fucked up and the one I had to use was a screwed one anyway. So I'm on my laptop, which is annoying, and I'm conserving power on my pad to do daily stuff. It should be here Friday, but I'm hoping for sooner.

As such I've not been able to work on my fic, which I would've finished by now otherwise, ugh. I want to finish it and brainstorm ideas for spook me.

Healthwise I'm better. It seems Saturday night made it all come to a head which is good I guess.

Food shop came yesterday with Detective Pikachu and the guy was nice and gave me a load of heroes cards (over 30!) so now I'm almost done. Anyone have any of them?

I've not read through my comics/magazine/book, because the afternoons have been dark and today I went all tired. Hopefully I'll read more tomorrow.

I've not done much nightly gaming but I did do Stellaris some more. I'm gonna try some other game pass games tonight for the Gamerscore event then go on Blair Witch and Devil May Cry before the end of the week.

I've also started watching the new Disenchantment eps and what the hell? I've watched the first two eps and those were wild. I loved King Zog saying 'Bite my shiny metal ax!'

I've done more Link's Awakening though. There's two main dungeons left to do and earlier I caught a cheep cheep on the fishing game which was pretty cool. I could spend ages on the claw game though. I need more money on it for the last chamber dungeon tile.

I also got untitled goose game. It's fun so far though I've only done the garden. Honk! It's fun being a goose

Tomorrow is the official reveal of Force Friday stuff with some of the actors and a new game trailer. At this point it seems a bit... late. With all the leaks it's took the wind out of their sales a lot but... we'll see.

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So on Monday I continued my Doctor Who watch with Warriors Gate. I didn't remember much about it, other than it was Romana's last episode. After watching it, I have no strong feelings about it. It has some interesting concepts and some nice effects (like the explosion) but it also has some bad ones and it just feels... I dunno.

The documentary reveals that there was trouble behind the scenes, so I think that's what effected the production (the direct had a vision for it but the budget just wasn't there, he even got fired at one point!) Adric is also rather unused, spending most of the time just wandering around the nothingness.

Then there's Romana leaving, which is very... abrupt. Like happens in the very last scenes abrupt. There's no build up to it and the aliens saying 'we need a time lord' comes out of nowhere too. (It's mentioned in the documentary that it should have been fitted in as a subplot)

Ah well. I vaguely remember liking the next on The Keeper Of Traken so I hope my memory is good. I get the feeling I'll wish I had season 19 after it and Logopolis (damn it being so much).

I love the collection special features and I'm looking forward to the ones on season 22. It makes me wonder if they'll do ones for the new series eventually.

Gonna watch Taskmaster now though

Several things before going into weekly Who rewatch post.

I didn’t read yesterday afternoon, I ended up dozing.

Still not heard back from PayPal and I suspect I won’t get an answer. I might send off another message but... eh.

The Who season 23 boxset seems to have been delayed for two weeks. There’s been no official word as to why which seems strange. Still it means I don’t need to worry about that.

I went on the Gears 5 multiplayer last night. A game of Escape went fairly well, though Horde ended up feeling tedious and I gave up at wave 30 which seemed to ramp up in difficulty. (The same can be said of Pokemon Masters, chapter 11 seems to have had a sudden irritating difficulty spike)

Last night ended with depression falling over. It’s still there but has lessened, though... ugh,

Anyway, Who now.

Last night was Full Circle, the first of the E-Space trilogy and the introduction to Adric. The tardis, trying to return to Gallifrey, gets thrown off course, ending up in e-space. Landing on a strange world they find people, a Starliner and a mysterious mist.

This is one of those Who episodes where things turn out to be a complete misdirect (namely the people are not descendants of those from the crashed Starliner, but evolved natives from the planet). The Starliner ‘crew’ are stuck in a loop of repairing the ship, even though it’s already good to go and their leaders (ironically called deciders) can’t actually decide on anything. It’s not clear what happened to th actual crew (it’s assumed they must’ve died long ago) but by the end the ship goes into space with the help of the Doctor.

Although the Marshmen are listed as ‘enemies’ I don’t think they are. They’re simply natives of the planet and don’t seem terribly hostile until later. Romana is dismissive of spiders that are hand sized, only for one of them to jump out at her and poison her. It just goes to show they aren’t ‘only spiders’.

I admit, I have a soft spot for Adric. He’s smart, yes, but he’s a sweet boy really. (Although he is listed as a member of ‘the elite’ it’s not exactly clear what that means, although his star does become a major thing in his last story...) Romana doesn’t seem to have too much to do, essentially babysitting kids until the aforementioned spider incident. The make up with her infected looked good though.

Next week is State Of Decay which I only remember as being space vampires which sounds accurate.

Now to wait on food shop delivery.

So on Monday I started season 18 of Doctor Who, so like with 10 before it I’m gonna post my thoughts.

First episode was The Leisure Hive. The Doctor and Romana decide to take a break at the titular hive, but of course nothing is as it seems.

So I’ll be honest, I couldn’t remember anything about this one. With season 10 I could remember something about each one going in but this one? Nothing. The story is also a four parter, which as I’ve mentioned before, is a better length for them.

As there is a jump from 10 to 18, there’s a lot of changes between the two. The doctor has regenerated and he has different companions in the form of Romana and K9, although K9 isn’t in it beyond the opening scene. (That’s due to the new producer not liking him and wanting to get rid of him, because he was considered too op.)

As for the story itself, it’s good in some ways. I liked the design of the aliens, both the foamasi and argolins looked good (and I thought the good foamasi was cute) and it was nice to see alien races that were more varied. Usually there’s a tendency for races to all be ‘evil’ but this time both races had good and bad members. It was also sad in a way, because of the war between the species that had destroyed the argolin homeworld and led to them making the hive as a last bastion of their race and culture.

Overall though it’s not terribly memorable of an episode and I’m not sure exactly why that is.

I watched the special features yesterday morning, since most were fairly short. Some of them were rather... dry in the ones from season 10. The costume one was nice, due to the costume lady being sweet. The behind the sofa for it was the best though, since the people doing it were (unlike the season 10 one) mostly members of the cast, along with the aforementioned costume lady.

I’m hoping to finish off the season 10 special features disc tonight, since one of the features for it was long. The main thing on it to watch is the Sarah Jane Adventures story with Jo, which I remember fondly. I’ve not watched Sarah Jane in awhile, not since her last episodes before her untimely death, so it’ll be nice to see them again. I did find out something though and that’s Luke was supposed to come out as being gay in one of the episodes that didn’t get filmed. That’s a shame, because I loved Luke and it woulda been awesome for the show to have a gay character (and for a kids show too!). I knew I got vibes from him.

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Other things now.

Yesterday a payment option came up to do the damn bag pay after delivery so... it’s been done now. It’s gonna fuck up the next lot of money and the stuff I have ordered, which... is so irritating. I think it’s also made me stress out over money again (since, between Shudder and the Birmingham trip there’s not much there as it is). It sucks, but... eh.

I’m hoping even more for a back pay of my money but... it seems unlikely. I’ve heard nothing from them and I don’t want to chase it up. I keep checking the mail with a mix of hope and apprehension about it. Hope that there’d be a chunk of money, apprehension that they decide to go the other way and fuck my money up. I hate it.

Between that and the weather, which has gone hot again and is irritating as fuck, I’ve ended up having an early few nights which is annoying. I’ve got stuff to watch and things to go on damnit. I didn’t have a restful sleep last night either which is annoying.

I’m hoping to write soon but the heat is making it hard again. I want to work more on this Frank/Ray idea but my documents has loads of ideas and wips noted which is annoying. And I want more Bert stuff which I guess I’ll have to do at some point.

Bake off started last night and it’s good to have it back. Of course being the first ep and everyone being knew it’s hard to form attachments or remember names or anything. It’s a shame the tattooed guy left though I’m not surprised since he had a bit of a disastrous few bakes.

I’m gonna listen to a Magnus archives now before going to walk Naryu. I’m almost at the end of season 1 of it now so... we’lol see what happens.