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Today I got the Sunday tasks done and the Ribena finally arrived, so I have liquids and will not run out in all this hot.

I watched more Doctor Who. Up through The Wedding of River Song.

... I just discovered there's a Magic card of that name
https://gatherer.wizards.com/WHO/en-us/349/the-wedding-of-river-song
and distracted me.

The thing with this rewatch is it has been just long enough that lots of bits keep surprising me, sometimes because I forgot them (clearly, way too long between watching), but sometimes because I knew it happened but didnt expect it to land there. Content without context in my head, but when the Doctor phoned the Brigadier I got surprised along with him again.

Series giving me many feelings.

Of course one of the feelings is the one where I realise what all this all would look like out of context, to someone watching for the first time ever, and it is Mad. Brilliant, but mad. Not just the ones where it all clicks together, all the time the stories are things you would see in Doctor Who and no one else is doing it like this.

I have seen many complains about the most recent seasons of DW, but I am pretty sure, still, no one else is doing it like this.

Nifty.



I am looking forwards to this weather getting better but apparently tomorrow is another hot one.

Still. Watching Doctor Who with the fan on is working nice.

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I have finished rewatching 11 and the Ponds.
I still hate how the Ponds end. For one it makes no sense, and for a rather important other there are some behaviours that are just Always No. Instead we get them from the heroes on repeat, like it proves something. No. Hate it.
Live. It's the tricky bit.

That said, there were some chewy fascinating bits in all the previous episodes. Even River's perception of the Doctor's reaction to age makes a certain degree of sense. From her perspective, she gets older and he pulls away, so. It's a plausible read on a lot of his behaviour. But funnily enough it is not an interpretation I like, or one I find plausible currently, so, improvement.

I also like it that the Doctor got a lot older between episodes textually now. Several centuries to fill in there. Even if he has hopped planets in his counting, probably a long time. And he wanders off and makes new friends and brings them together, with dinosaurs. Lots of room for any adventure you can think of.



My flat is still Too Warm but there's only predicted to be one more day of this so it'll be fine. Blergh but fine.


And tomorrow I can watch whatever. Or listen. Or read.
Which is a lot cooler than my flat.