In which the Moff indulges his fondness for creepy fairy tale rhymes again, and also I'm ever so tempted to use an icon making a complicated joke about roles of actors in other shows, but for plot reasons, a River Song icon it has to be.

( Spoilers, sweetie )

In which I agree with what seems to have been the above cut lj consensus: not as good as The Doctor's Wife, but a fun adventure.

( Am I the only one paying attention? )

In which S. Thompson, he of two dreadful DW and one dreadful Sherlock episode who then wrote a good DW and a good Sherlock episode, contributes to the franchise again. Which will it be this time?

( And the answer is... )

Now that's more like it.

( You, and no one else )

So, depending on how you count, the mid season episode or the season opener. Anyway: the one where Jenna-Louise Coleman becomes a regular.

( Three times is the charm... )

Day 24 - Best quote

"There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the sea is asleep and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold. Come on, Ace, we've got work to do."

(Last lines in the last episode of Old Who, Survival, added in post production when it became clear the show would not get renewed and was, as far as anyone knew back then, over. No other dialogue before or since captured the essence of Doctor Who so perfectly.)

( The rest of the days )

It's not paranoia if they're really after you. Let's see:

1.) Final scene from Blink, season 3 of current Doctor Who. You know, the one with all those statues. I should add that it doesn't work that way anymore after all the subsequent overexposure of the Angels, but back then? I never felt the same way around statues of any kind again. :)

2.) The panel of a cat dream in Dream of a thousand cats, in volume 3 of The Sandman. Anyone ever owning a cat, or rather, being owned by one, knows that Gaiman reveals the truth here. This is exactly what cats dream of. And if they do accomplish the change they wish, I fear I'll be one of the first to die in the cat revolution. My mother may be spared, being a superbly trained cat servant extraordinaire, but you know, when I'm back home in Bamberg and want to write and our cat wants to sit on the chair in front of the computer? I actually claim that chair and put her down to the floor. I'm DOOMED.

3.) Any number of Twin Peaks scenes featuring BOB, especially if he shows up only at the corner of one's eye, for a moment. But if I have to narrow it down, the final one. If BOB can be in ( spoiler )

, there is no hope for the rest of us.

4.) Sweeney Todd, the song Have A Little Priest. I entirely blame Stephen Sondheim for suspecting that any given fast food enterprise, either in history or now, could be a means for serial killers to dispose of bodies. He accomplished this not just by adapting that Victorian potpoiler but for making the music of the ballad when Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett first develop their fiendish scheme such a damm ear worm.

5.) The Silence of the Lambs, Clarice Starling enters what turns out to be the villain's lair, a fact she realises by a moth fluttering by. Now that movie has a great deal of scary scenes, plus I had read the novel it was based on before and actually knew what would happen. But the use of moths in it on screen somehow impacted me differently. Maybe because the night I first saw it, the summer night, I went home, took a shower, had the window open, a moth flew in while I was still in the shower... you better believe I screamed. I had no feelings about moths before. But after this film, I always get a little shudder when coming across one. Though the time in the shower was the only time I screamed. I blame you, Jonathan Demme.

Interrupting my Yuletide readings for tv just a bit, I went for the DW Christmas special, because once I've watched the Merlin finale two parter, the show is over, and grumblings about the fifth season aside, I find I want to postpone that just the teensiest bit. So, the Moff's latest offering it was.

( I think I like this best of the Moffat era Christmas specials so far )

Yuletide sign-up are open!. Checking out which fandoms were available made me change one of my intended requests and offers, though not of the same fandom. Having the "damn, I should have thought of that" impulse before signing up instead of after comes in handy. :)

You can check which fandoms already got sign-ups here, which is neat and which I'll probably do a lot during the next few months. If only some of these get written in, it's going to be a great Yuletide again. Mind you, now that I've signed up up I suddenly envision dreadful possibilities that didn't occur to me - my selection of Babylon 5 characters was such that I won't get stuck with either Sheridan/Delenn, Susan/Talia or Susan/Marcus, aka the juggernauts, but what if someone requested a Bester/Vir fluffy happy fic? Nah. They wouldn't. Would they?

Also with Breaking Bad I listed most of the characters for my willing-to-write category but maybe shouldn't have listed both Jesse and Walter, because I'm not actually keen on writing Jesse/Walter, which is the - there are so few BB fics of any category that we can't call it juggernaut, but you know what I mean. I wouldn't be in this fandom if I didn't find the Walter and Jesse relationship compelling and crucial, but it's already central on the show, so in fanfic I'd rather explore other aspects or ensemble fic. What if I'm matched with someone who wants a Walt/Jesse PWP? Ah well. (To absolutely no one's surprise, I requested something Skyler centric.)

More suddenly occuring dangers: Sunset Boulevard - nah, can't actually think of anything I wouldn't want to write. (Norma and Betty shop for curtains? Errr. Well, actually, that has potential. Not completely kidding. I mean, why on earth Norma wouldn't let Max do the shopping is beyond me, but hey, she's not famous for her rationality.)

The Sunne in Splendour: someone nominated Sharon Penman's first novel I still have strong nostalgic feelings for, and I couldn't resist signing up. Considering the nominated characters are the York brothers and Anne Neville, I think I'm up for anything. (She says, until she reads the request Yorkcest and/or a high school AU.)

Greek and Roman Mythology: anything goes. Such is the nature of Greek and Roman mythology. :)


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Also, Doctor Who wise, I watched/listened to the unfilmed but scripted and storyboarded epiloge narrated by Arthur Darville. Alas, my fuzzy feelings and ability to sniffle along with the rest of (not Moffat hating) fandom were severely disrupted because I couldn't help but thinking "That's all very well for Brian, but what about the other Ponds?" You know, Amy's parents? Who must have been swalled up by a crack in time again, because after resurrecting them and giving Amy an entire second childhood with them in The Big Bang so they could be at her wedding, the Moff never bothered mentioning them or Amy's aunt again. I could be mean and wonder whether he even remembers they exist(ed?), but hey. Crack in time.

In which we get the last ep before the Christmas special, and you know, I've enjoyed this half-of-a-season much, much more than the first half of season 6. Probably also more than the first half of s5 which was fine but did have one big clunker (this season didn't) plus I was still trying to get a grip on Amy's character then. Thus I declare s7, first half, as my favourite first half of a Moff era season.

( Spoilers, sweetie )