Black and white: classic!

The thing I use the 'zap colors' button for the single most often? Not pink on purple, green on blue, or any of those obvious eye waterers. Grey on grey. Or sometimes grey on white. Anything where someone has looked at a perfectly good black and white page and decided to turn the contrast down with their html or style sheet rather than their very own monitor contrast button.

Black text, white background. Leave people to customise on their own. Make pretty colors around the edges where we don't need to read.

I know I'm grumping and I know I used to do all sorts of 'pretty' things with text and background that don't fit my current rule*, but I know I also used to be able to read them easier. Now I have more learnings and more grump.


(*I know I also have pages on my current DW site style that don't have a white background, but that's personal incompetence, not a design choice.)

Doctor Who: The Time Monster

I likes it :-)
I had heard of the best bits in advance, which shows people bothered talking about them. They were still good bits.
The Master and The Doctor just poking at each other, and the linked dreams and all, just thinking about each other all the time. They're very difficult to explain without the obvious.

The subtitles are only almost right though. ( Read more... )

That was pretty and with action and LOLs. Win!

Doctor Who: Day of the Moon

Weirdly, sadly, I did not like that plot resolution. ( Read more... )

I'm also not best pleased with the character stuff. ( Read more... )

I provisionally like the last few minutes though. ( Read more... )

I may need the rest of the season before I can decide precisely what I think of this one on balance.

Is a beginning.