Star Wars: Skeleton Crew 1.04 and 1.05:

Continues to be excellent, might shape up to be my favourite SW series after The Clone Wars if it keeps this up. As with The Clone Wars, the fact its targeted primarily at children works to its benefit, not detriment, I suspect (i.e. it is a tv show with an overreaching story, sure, but it is also episodic, using the tv format, not a movie broken up in segments, and while there are nice little nods to overall SW, it is its own story, not a continuity headache). And the Treasure Island inspiration/tie in continues to make for fabulous characterisation. ( Spoilery remarks about both episodes ensue. )

Doctor Who Christmas Special 2024: Joy to the World

Featuring the return of Stephen Moffat as a scriptwriter for DW, and okay, as Christmas specials go. (My own take on the various Christmas specials from various New Who eras: I love only two - The Runaway Bride and The Husbands of River Song respectively, i.e one RTD and one Moffat effort, but like most of them (in varying degrees). I think there are only two or three I don't like. This won't be one of them, but neither will it be a beloved favourite I rewatch, I think.

Structurally, despite being so Moffatian, it was weird, in that Nicola Coughlan who played the supposed Companion-character for the Special hardly shared any scenes with him and otherwise wasn't as present as you'd espect the Companion character to be, either - what scenes she had, she played well, but I couldn't help but think of how good she'd been as Claire in Derry Girls and wish for a DW/Derry Girls Crossover Christmas Special instead. Otoh, the Doctor did have quality bonding time with the special's other female character, Anita, who was lovely, but their relationship felt like a self-contained short story within the special, not really connected to the main plot.

( Three more spoilery remarks. )