Assorted Ramblings...

A couple of weeks back, I posted that I'd been listening to some Big Finish Eight Doctor audios, and wrote down some thinky-thoughts about the four series of adventures with Eight and Lucie Miller that I'd worked my way through.

I did originally start with Eight from the beginning (Storm Warning) but I got distracted by the Lucie stories and so I listened to all of those first and have now gone back to the beginning.

( Look - bats! Great! )

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been on a marathon listening session to some of the Big Finish Doctor Who Audios. Listening to them is something I’ve been meaning to get around to for ages, but as usual, there never seems to be enough time to do/listen to/watch/read everything I want to get around to and things fall off my list.

But - having listened to the odd one or two last summer I decided to make the effort and put several on my mp3 player – it’s a nice way of passing the time when I’m doing the ironing! Not being overly familiar with Six or Seven (I seem to remember that they arrived around the time that the Beeb moved DW from Saturday tea-times to weekday evenings, and I wasn’t always able to watch) I started with the Eighth Doctor. (I had a bit of a thing for Paul McGann back in the 90s. *g*)

There will be spoilers behind the cut.

( Lots and lots of waffling about Doctor Who in Audio form )

I'm not quite caught up with this week's Outcasts yet; I've watched episode 3 and have episode 4 on Sky+ which I plan to watch later or tomorrow.

( more on this and other things on my tellybox )

You can tell I’ve either got time on my hands or that I’m procrastinating when I come up with something like this.

Anyway.

A couple of days ago topaz_eyes posted an excellent bit of meta about the Rueful Fate of Donna Noble in Journey’s End - if you’ve not read it, I highly recommend it – as part of an Unpopular Fandom Opinions meme. I’m not doing the meme, but it started me thinking, and I’ve realized that I have some opinions when it comes to DW that appear not to be shared by most of fandom.

For example, I don’t hate what is colloquially known as Tinkerbell!Doctor in Last of the Time Lords. It was cheesy, yes, but I didn’t (and still don’t) care – I liked it. Girl in the Fireplace and Blink aren’t among my favourite episodes of nu-Who EVAH! I don’t hate River Song (even though she was bloody annoying to start with!) and I don’t like Rose very much. That last one will come as a huge shock, I know.

But the Unpopular Fandom Opinion I’m going to voice isn’t to do with any of those. (And it's also nowhere near as good or as insightful as the bit of meta I've linked to above).

It’s this. I LIKE VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED

( Allons-y, Alonzo! )

Okay, so there you have it - my Unpopular Fandom Opinion. I'm not expecting to change your opinion; I'm just sharing mine.

I've only been able to watch this once so far, so my thoughts aren't very organised, but here goes anyway.

( ChristmasTime can be... oh, you know the mantra by now. )

I wasn't able to watch on Sunday so I'm rather late with my reactions this week.

( random thoughts )

Thinky thoughts, in no particular order.

( spoilers, if you haven't seen ep 2 yet )

It's been a gorgeous day today - sunny and warm and more like July than ... er... July actually was. So we've been out and about and I'll post some pics tomorrow when I get a chance.

It's late, but I can't go to bed without a quick mention of the first episode of Single Father.

( spoilers )

Um. Well, I’m not sure what to make of that, actually. I enjoyed it, but – it left me feeling a bit flat, and I’m trying to work out why.

( bang, bang! )

I've still got a smile on my face after that one :-) Moff & Co seem to have been saving up the best episodes until last (assuming the last two are awesome of course!), what with last week's wonderful Van Gogh episode and now another one from Gareth Roberts. I was pleased to see he was on board again this series, becuase he wrote two of my favourite episodes of nu-Who - The Shakespeare Code and The Unicorn and the Wasp.

( For God's sake, KISS the girl! )