I think it really says something about how utterly crap this finale was that, upon rewatching, the thing that got me going the most was Jack saying, "I was in China for the Boxer Rebellion." My brain spent the next several minutes thinking about how one could hook him up with Spike, or Angel, or Drusilla, or Darla, or the Chinese Slayer, and how one could work that into a story as a flashback with him meeting one of them again in the present day etc. etc. - because it was far more interesting than the utterly ridiculous, overblown ending to what had started out as a fascinating idea.

Okay, Rhys and Andy in the Category One ward saying goodbye to Gwen's dad and the unnamed girl was moving too, but honestly, that was it.

And god the Blessing really did look gross.

Ah well. At least it didn't have a really, really stupid and groan-worthy ending.

Oh wait. It did.

I'm going to stick with TW S1 and 2 from now on, with the odd foray into CoE. I've just finished a rewatch of S1 and it was about a billion times better than this drivel!

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So, today we have two new additions to the household! Meet Marmalade (front) and Tango (rear), gorgeous 17 week-old rescue kittens we brought home today. They're very shy as they haven't had much human contact yet (they and their mum were found under a car by an old lady who brought them in, but she had Alzheimer's and kept forgetting to feed them, so were rescued from there by the gas man and taken to a shelter) but they are beautiful and sweet-tempered and we are all completely in love with them already! :-)



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Oh god, they're changing things again over at LJ, aren't they? My icons have suddenly sorted themselves back into alphabetical order (just when I'd finally started to get used to where to find them!) and there are new formatting options at the top of my comments (which I don't need because I use html coding).

I'm assuming that whatever they're doing is responsible for the fact that I'm only getting one comment notification in three, and those at least half an hour late, which really DOES NOT HELP when you're role-playing in six different threads! Grrr.

Why can't they just stop meddling?

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I was looking forward to getting to In the Dark in my Angel S1 rewatch and it was just as much fun as I remembered. But the moment it started, I couldn't help thinking of the similiarites with KKBB. Mainly because they both start with James Marsters up on a roof giving us a nice little introduction to his character. And of course because he's basically playing the same part in both of them. Old shag (I would say love but that's not really true in either case) of the leading man - the dark, mysterious, older-than-he-looks leading man - with whom he has a love/hate relationship. Meeting the team and chatting up the girls (Cordy/Tosh/Gwen) and the girls falling for it, even if only briefly. And there's torture in ITD while in KKBB Jack's just got back from the year on the Valiant. Both episodes even end with another rooftop scene and a sunset! (Or is it sunrise in KKBB? I can't remember. Same coloured sky, anyway!)

I know it's nothing deep, but it amused me, and I can't help wondering how much of the mirroring in KKBB was deliberate!

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I've started watching Buffy again after a bit of a hiatus, due to the fact that last year I finally (after 8 years) finished my viewing of all seasons in order. The reason that took so long was that at the end of 2005 I became a mother and everything else pretty much went out the window! And also the fact that Buffy was over and I got into the Doctor Who/Torchwood fandom instead (and started writing fanfic and role-playing), so watching Buffy and Angel moved a long way down the list of priorities. But actually, the slow-down was good because it meant that by the time I got to the later seasons of both shows which I hadn't liked so much originally, I really, really enjoyed them.

( Cut for rambling )

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Now that most (I think) of the people who are also active on Dreamwidth have joined my circle there (look, I can use the new terminology! *g*) I've cut those same people from my LJ flist, so as to avoid having their entries show up in two different reading pages. I will do the same when anyone else subscribes/gives me access over there too. :-)

If I've cut anyone who thinks they shouldn't have been cut, obviously let me know!

(Oh, LOL: I accidentally pressed enter after typing in my tag, instead of cursoring down to the suggested tag first, and for some reason that started a spell check (not something I usually do). And it's hilarious. Not only does the LJ spell check not recognise 'Dreamwidth', which I guess is fair enough, but neither does it recognise 'LJ' or 'flist'! Duh!)

Right. Now that all the kerfuffle of Christmas is over (and so is the very nasty upper airway infection I came down with during it) I've finally got round to properly transferring my main activity over to Dreamwidth, something I've been dying to do ever since LJ made those stupid changes to commenting. Conveniently, my paid account there expires today, so it's all worked out rather neatly!

And oh, how lovely it is to have nice big text to look at while I write this post, and to be able to comment normally again!

Anyway. Just wanted to say that I've imported everything from my LJ account and also everything from my fic comm to a copy here at Dreamwidth, and from now on, whilst I'll still obviously read my flist over at LJ, anything I *can* do here at DW instead, I *will*! Obviously I still have a lot of tidying up and formatting etc. to do here, but the journal and comm are useable and that's what matters.

So if you have an account here and I haven't subscribed to you, let me know and I'll do so. :-)

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I loved this. There's just SO MUCH in there! But... there's just so much in there! I kinda wish they'd show these as two-parters so that those of us who can't keep up with Sherlock could have a week in between to assimilate it all and try and work stuff out!

How do I preview a comment now?????

*mumbles* Bloody stupid LJ people who keep on changing things that don't need changing...

ETA: I'm missing comment headers already! :-(

ETA2: Okay, and now you can't open up a collapsed thread and have it take up the whole width of the page any more? (Don't know what that's called, but I mean when you used to click on 'Thread'.) Now you can only expand, which means it's still all shunted over the right! What the FUCK were they thinking?????

This is fascinating: The Future According to Sci-fi.

itinerant_vae brought this to her flist's attention this morning and I think it needs all the boosting it can get!


Originally posted by gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood Amendment

A funny and very cute episode with some fantastic lines and moments (I love Craig, and Craig/Doctor) but as I was watching it it felt particularly devoid of story. Maybe it was because it was Cybermen - again - and my disbelief at how there can be more Cybermen on Earth has reached its limits (though at least this was eventually explained by it being a spaceship that had crashed centuries ago). I don't know. It just felt rather nothingey to me.

I also got stuck on a couple of practical points which completely distracted me.

1. What the hell were Amy and Rory doing in Colchester??? Is Ledworth supposed to be in Essex (I never got that impression). Or is that house the Doctor bought them in Colchester? Why? Because he wanted all his friends near each other? As I said, this completely distracted me.

2. When was this supposed to be set? The way the Doctor kept going on about dying tomorrow, it sounded like it was supposed to be the day before that – i.e. on Earth, not just in his personal timeline. But it can't be, because at that point Amy and Rory were on their way to meet him in America, whereas it's clear that months if not years are supposed to have passed since the Doctor dropped them back off on Earth to give Amy time to have become a perfume model. So that's just weird.

3. Also, if the Doctor's going to die tomorrow, then is he now 1100 and something and this is him 200 years after he dropped off Amy and Rory? I certainly didn't get that vibe off him, in which case I'm confused!

Also also? Enough with the "I'm going to die" angst. At least Eleven is more stoic about it than Ten, but gah, it just feels like that all over again.

Funnest bit, though? Spotting Lynda Barron as the gossipy shop assistant, whom my son and I watch regularly in a children's show called 'Come Outside', and realising that that was recorded so long ago that it was actually closer to her appearance as a pirate captain with the Fifth Doctor in The Eternals than how she looks now! Timey-wimey indeed. *g*

Wow.

Just... Wow.

(more later when my brain has had a chance to assimilate it)

Nope, sorry, you've lost me with this one.

( Spoilers )

Ah well, at least next week's looks more interesting, even if I'm not convinced by Gwen turning on Jack one tiny bit. *g*

Okay, so now LJ is finally back, I actually feel like making a post!!! Yay me!

NO SPOILERS FOR FUTURE EPISODES PLEASE!!!

( Spoilers for Episode 3, whatever it was called )

Okay, I haven't actually read any one else's reviews yet, because I didn't see the ep till yesterday and haven't had time, but my flist seems to be absolutely full of squee.

So is there anyone else who didn't think much of it, or am I the only one?