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[miwahni]

For the first time since 2012 I couldn't get a Sherlock calendar from amazon.com this year. There was one on the UK site but they won't post to Australia, and it wasn't available on the Australian site. I thought I'd be clever and went back through all my old Sherlock calendars until I found one where  January 1st was a Friday, and 2016 seemed to

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[byslantedlight]

I need to watch the Doctor Who special again - although really I need to watch last season again first, because what with everything I've entirely forgotten what was going on, and I feel like I missed alot of stuff in the special...

I know what you mean about her being happy to blow an entire race to oblivion, especially considering Gallifrey... I wonder what message that's supposed to send us - that some things are just so evil they have to be entirely destroyed, because there's no hope of redemption? Like you say, it seems quite ante-the Doctor of the past... In so many ways she was better than human in previous reincarnations - I don't want her sinking to our level, I want her to be a shining example of what it's possible for humans to be!

And yeah, I've never quite warmed to Graham, because he does have that whole old-man-knows-best thing going on...

[miwahni]

That's it exactly... I'm hoping it really is character development, and not just Chris Chibnall tossing decades of characterisation in the bin because he thought it made a good story. But this is the guy who brought us the fight between a cyberwoman and a pterodactyl so I don't hold out too much hope :-( .

[byslantedlight]

Lol - see, I rather liked Cyberwoman... *vbg*

[miwahni]

Finally I've found someone who liked that ep! :-) . I rabbited on so much about this show that my son finally decided he'd give it a try - and that was the ep he tuned into. He told me later that he tuned in just in time to see the fight between the cyberwoman and Myfanwy, and that alone was enough to make him switch off. Have to admit, when I rewatch S1, I skip that ep.