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I tried to record Dr Who but the new PVR kept giving me too many automatic options so I ending up doing it by hand and screwing up the timing so all we got was 70 minute more of sodding boat race than I ever want to see.
It was all right. More than all right. Fun. Moffat repeated the thing from The Girl in the Fire Place about the Doctor visiting the little girl and not coming back until she’s a grown woman. He must think The Time Traveller’s wife is the most romantic thing ever but the actual encounters were smartly written and the trope did fit with the fairy tale slant which I approve of. Hated the Doctor as lonely god with a passion but mad fay with a box, that works for me. The plot didn’t quite add up but managed to trick the viewer into thinking it did by a combination of pacing and setting up so many first act guns and paying each of them off in the third. Again I approve. Actors and characters all fine, they only thing I didn’t really like was the village setting. RTD’s companions were all city people, all Londoners to be precise so points off for lack of regional diversity but at least not everybody was so middle class and pale.
In other TV news probably re-watching Boys from the Black Stuff is not the best idea when in the middle of finally claiming DLA (Disability Living Allowance). A letter came from the DWP asking for additional information. It could be a trick. Although times have changed and we really should have claimed from the beginning. You have to get people’s names on the books, get them into the system or no one will believe them when they do need to claim. I know why we didn’t. When they were diagnosed it didn’t feel as if money was the main problem and the form is a 50 page behemoth on which every question is an invitation to betray your children by explaining what a burden they are. I wasn’t ready for that then.
It was all right. More than all right. Fun. Moffat repeated the thing from The Girl in the Fire Place about the Doctor visiting the little girl and not coming back until she’s a grown woman. He must think The Time Traveller’s wife is the most romantic thing ever but the actual encounters were smartly written and the trope did fit with the fairy tale slant which I approve of. Hated the Doctor as lonely god with a passion but mad fay with a box, that works for me. The plot didn’t quite add up but managed to trick the viewer into thinking it did by a combination of pacing and setting up so many first act guns and paying each of them off in the third. Again I approve. Actors and characters all fine, they only thing I didn’t really like was the village setting. RTD’s companions were all city people, all Londoners to be precise so points off for lack of regional diversity but at least not everybody was so middle class and pale.
In other TV news probably re-watching Boys from the Black Stuff is not the best idea when in the middle of finally claiming DLA (Disability Living Allowance). A letter came from the DWP asking for additional information. It could be a trick. Although times have changed and we really should have claimed from the beginning. You have to get people’s names on the books, get them into the system or no one will believe them when they do need to claim. I know why we didn’t. When they were diagnosed it didn’t feel as if money was the main problem and the form is a 50 page behemoth on which every question is an invitation to betray your children by explaining what a burden they are. I wasn’t ready for that then.