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Went to see Star Trek: Into Darkness with Tequila Boy earlier, and suddenly remembered why it is that I don't go to the cinema more often. I remember when you could get into the pictures in town for under a fiver, of course back then we had to walk uphill through the snow to get there and back. And whoever was in charge of the sound could have stood to have turned it down a notch or two, whenever something exploded (which happened a lot) I was at risk of a perforated eardrum. Yeah, yeah, old age is coming for all of you too, you know.

My continued descent into doddering old age not withstanding, I really really enjoyed Into Darkness. With one exception, whoever decided to cast Benedict Cumberbatch must have been high. Even putting aside the race issue, he's not exactly the first actor I think of when I think genetically engineered ninja superhuman. It fucked with my suspension of disbelief too, instead of thinking "Oh, look, Khan" I was thinking, "Why's Benedict Cumberbatch accidentally wandered onto the set of this Star Trek film?"

The biggest shock of the afternoon was discovering that Tequila Boy doesn't know what a tribble is. I mean, even if you're not a trekkie, I thought tribbles were ubiquitous. So I have dispatched him off home with instructions to google The Trouble With Tribbles.

How did we ever become friends in the first place? I asked him.
You buy half the drinks and occasionally have interesting things to say about rugby. The rest of the time I just nod and smile.

The makings of a beautiful friendship, ladies and gentlemen.

Anyway, I have been catching up on the finales of ( Elementary )

The back half of this season of OUaT was pretty wobbly I thought, though a good part of that I suspect was that it went on hiatus every other bloody week, meaning it never really got up a sense of momentum, I imagine it would hold up better on marathoning. Anyway, I watched ( the finale )

I haven't talked much about this series of ( Doctor Who )

I fell asleep before Game of Thrones last night, then I was going to watch it when I got in this afternoon, but watching it in the daylight with a cup of tea and the sun splitting the sky is not the same as watching it curled up in the dark with a beer.

I can't believe we're halfway through the series already ( GoT 3x5 Kissed By Fire )

I have fallen victim to an apocalyptic death cold, luckily I only really had two reactions to this week's Game of Thrones.

( GoT 3X3, Walk of Punishment )

And on that note, my germs and I are off to bed.

I'm not sure my sister's working sojourn to Germany got off to the best start as she called me from Hamburg (roughly 200km from the town she was aiming for) to ask me, and I quote, to "...go down to western union and wire me some money before this hotel realises I don't have any money to pay them."

In less dramatic news, I spent the holiday weekend mainlining S2 Game of Thrones with Tequila Boy. A tip for you all, do not allow yourselves to be suckered into a drinking game where you drink every time Cersei does. Oh. God. The. Pain.

Oddly, some things about series two work much better when you watch it all in one go. I mean, the attempt to engineer Dany a story out of nothing still doesn't really work, and Robb is still a dick, but the whole thing flows much better, and the pacing seems much less fractured.

Does this mean that I am going to save up series three to watch over a weekend, on the assumption that the same thing will be true? It absolutely does not.

Game of Thrones ( 3x01 )

I have to admit the last episode of Once Upon a Time conflicted me somewhat ( The Outsider )

Anyway, those are my massively disjointed thoughts on Belle/Rumpelstiltskin; I am old and and crabbit and refuse to learn this fandom's ship names.

I have watched the series finale of Merlin, mostly out of a sense of morbid completism, and partly because, well, it's Christmas Eve and basically the only time I'm gonna be drunk enough.

( The destiny of a great kingdom lies in the hands of... Oh, never mind )

I do have very high hopes for Doctor Who tomorrow, though.

Okay, I can't be the only one who thinks that Once Upon a Time should have used Ruby and Belle for its version of Beauty & the Beast, can I?

Still kinda baffled at how this show can be (with the exception of of Snow and Charming) so very, very meh at canon het relationships, and so very good at accidental femslash.

Well, all in all, I though the first half of series 7 was a success. The blockbuster approach to individual episodes really worked for me, I finally, finally warmed to the Ponds, and simply by virtue of not trying to shoe-horn in an unworkable arc it solved a lot of the problems I'd had with S6.

And that's basically how I felt about tonight: squee, with caveats.

( The Angels Take Manhattan )

Watched Snakes on a Plane ( Dinosaurs on a Spaceship )