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Back for the weekend, after delayed trains kept me on the (rail)road nearly the entire day. Luckily, I had a new Doctor Who audio adventure to keep me company, Dan Abnott's The Forever Trap, read by Catherine Tate, and featuring, naturally, my favourite New Who TARDIS team, the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble. It's great fun, not least because Catherine Tate is an excellent reader - her dead-on Ten (or Tenannt, if you like) impersonation is no surprise, but she also creates different voices for all the other characters, and of course is wonderful with Donna. What's more, Donna and the Doctor are together for the entire adventure, and their interaction, the banter, the support when needed and the glaring at other times, it's all there. Abnott even manages to work in some season 4 trademarks like Donna and the Doctor being mistaken for a couple and both emphatically denying this, and some general New Who trademarks like putting a contemporary phenomenon - spam mail, virus attachments, overcrowded housing, greedy landlords, among other things -, amped, in a sci fi context. And did I mention Catherine Tate is terrific? *adores*

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From two newer loves to two old ones:

Babylon 5:

Londo and G'Kar, as seen by Vir, in late season 4: Beatitudes. I do love my Centauri and Narn to bits, and kangeiko, as ever, does their layers and hearts justice.

Alias:

And just because I changed my layout this year doesn't mean I love Arvin Sloane any less, either. Seasons of Change presents his and Jack Bristow's relationship through the years, in short, pointed vignettes, Jack's pov, and it's so true for both of them. *flails*