Hello, I'm an owl
Dec. 26th, 2012 05:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
netgirl_y2kWell, Christmas Day was lovely. I had a lie in and had accumulated all my presents to unwrap under the tree on Christmas morning. A couple of interesting looking envelopes turned out to be tickets for the home games of next year's Six Nations, which, given the way Scotland have been playing lately, is equal parts thoughtful gift and cruel taunt. My mother also left me an owl onesie, which at the age of nearly thirty, I may never take off.
My sister managed to get out of work in time for dinner - she hasn't explained how, I have visions of some poor bugger left lying on an operating table - which I ate in my owl onesie. If you ever see a photograph floating about of a giant owl eating a sea bass, then hello, hi! It also means the steak I got for if I was going to be eating alone will do for tonight with last of the whisky cocktail we made.
Then we cracked open a bottle of vino verde and watched Doctor Who. I have a theory about the Christmas Doctor Whos, that it's hard to judge them on their own merits, because it all gets a bit tied up in what kind of holiday you're having. For example, last year's DW special could have been a staggering work of heartbreaking genius (although I really don't think that it was) and I still wouldn't have enjoyed it because I was having such a thoroughly awful time.
I very much enjoyed this year's, and I don't think it was just because I was slightly drunk and having a lovely day.
-Jenny & Vastra! Interspecies victorian lesbian marrieds! My version of Holmes & Watson are canonically married, where do I collect the internet that I've just won.
-Strax!
-SPIN OFF! SPIN OFF! SPIN OFF!
-In your own time, fandom, with all the fic about the Paternoster Gang, yes.
-Invisible staircase up to the magic cloud, gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.
-Clara! Just everything about her, she was brave and clever and trying to defy class boundaries.
-I do think that it's slightly a cop-out to make the full time companion modern day Clara rather than Victorian!Clara or future!Oswin, although I'm sure Jenna Lousie Coleman will still be gorgeous and adorable and charming. And I have my reservations about the woman twice dead thing, just because it has shades of exactly how all mouth and no trousers the Who Is River Song? plot was.
-But mostly YIPPEE!
And now it's Boxing Day and I'm drinking tea and eating brie and chocolate, which is better hangover food than you think it is.
Hope all of you had a lovely Christmas/Doctor Who Day/Tuesday.
My sister managed to get out of work in time for dinner - she hasn't explained how, I have visions of some poor bugger left lying on an operating table - which I ate in my owl onesie. If you ever see a photograph floating about of a giant owl eating a sea bass, then hello, hi! It also means the steak I got for if I was going to be eating alone will do for tonight with last of the whisky cocktail we made.
Then we cracked open a bottle of vino verde and watched Doctor Who. I have a theory about the Christmas Doctor Whos, that it's hard to judge them on their own merits, because it all gets a bit tied up in what kind of holiday you're having. For example, last year's DW special could have been a staggering work of heartbreaking genius (although I really don't think that it was) and I still wouldn't have enjoyed it because I was having such a thoroughly awful time.
I very much enjoyed this year's, and I don't think it was just because I was slightly drunk and having a lovely day.
-Jenny & Vastra! Interspecies victorian lesbian marrieds! My version of Holmes & Watson are canonically married, where do I collect the internet that I've just won.
-Strax!
-SPIN OFF! SPIN OFF! SPIN OFF!
-In your own time, fandom, with all the fic about the Paternoster Gang, yes.
-Invisible staircase up to the magic cloud, gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.
-Clara! Just everything about her, she was brave and clever and trying to defy class boundaries.
-I do think that it's slightly a cop-out to make the full time companion modern day Clara rather than Victorian!Clara or future!Oswin, although I'm sure Jenna Lousie Coleman will still be gorgeous and adorable and charming. And I have my reservations about the woman twice dead thing, just because it has shades of exactly how all mouth and no trousers the Who Is River Song? plot was.
-But mostly YIPPEE!
And now it's Boxing Day and I'm drinking tea and eating brie and chocolate, which is better hangover food than you think it is.
Hope all of you had a lovely Christmas/Doctor Who Day/Tuesday.
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Date: 2012-12-26 06:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-26 07:05 pm (UTC)Yeah, what I liked most about the first half of season seven was the lack of an overarching arc, which is what had ruined S6 for me, so I'm not best pleased to see another one. On the other hand, I am delighted that Oswin turned out to be relevant and wasn't just a case of casting the same actor twice, so I'm going to try to keep an open mind.
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Date: 2012-12-26 11:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-26 08:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-26 08:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-26 10:31 pm (UTC)... I'm basically leaving the same comment on everyone's posts. I CARE NOT. *_*
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Date: 2012-12-26 10:59 pm (UTC)Okay, maybe it's not fandom wide, but I'm ignoring those bits of fandom.
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Date: 2012-12-27 05:34 pm (UTC)Because I would enjoy that very much (ps you should definitely write some fic about those two please)
And Jenna Lousie Coleman can show up so we can all see her face some more.
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Date: 2012-12-27 07:49 pm (UTC)On it. So very on it.
Yes, JLC has an excellent face and should be congratulated on it.
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Date: 2012-12-27 10:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-28 01:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-28 03:56 pm (UTC)