The protestors, that is. Longest sit-in ever. It even beats the May Day/Sodexho one where people were getting arrested, but those people started after lunch and these people were rounding up come 10 a.m.

Y'know, I sympathize, but I do wonder if protests do anything other than let people vent their feelings.

Great, first the Windows on the laptop crashes, now the iPod crashes.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

1. Two words: jury duty.
2. I just started a page on TV Tropes for the stuff that bugs me about Brigadoon. I can't help but think that if it wasn't pretty obviously fanfic, it'd be a cool idea to write a short story called "Brigadoom", about what happens when Brigadoom eventually comes back after the apocalypse and can't help but notice that things aren't so cute and paradisical a "week" later.

...or, "Yup, my weirdness magnet struck again. " Apparently wearing purple is enough to do it.

I love it when a guy is too stoned to actually go through with a come-on. That's just awesome. Maybe this is an "only in Davis" thing when the stoners find me (I had a similar encounter with a "grad student' called "Rooster" at my first Whole Earth), but it's amusing to get like five compliments on my outfit and yet not get asked out AND he wanders off on his own.

Actually, stoner #2 was probably saner than #1, so that was entertaining. I'd hang with him again, he was all "Yeah, I met this guy a week ago and now he follows me around..."

Things I learned today:
(a) if you want to keep an immunity to poison oak, periodically get some on you so you don't lose it.
(b) do not slap someone on a fresh tattoo.
(c) slapping theoretically "reinforces" the ink in one or something.

I suspect none of this is actually true (okay, I'd buy the tat slap), but hey! Wacky New Information!

... I just hope I don't smell like suspicious substances at work now. I swear, I don't do 'em!

So I was reading underpope 's followup entry on his "Story of the Week" project, and I was impressed that he stuck with it. Then again, that guy sticks with everything.

I'm really rather annoyed with myself for having no staying power on anything, really. Sure, I can write a novel in a month...but dear god, I couldn't force myself to write on the thing come December 2 or so. I tried to do a NaNo this month and literally lost interest on day 2 because nobody else was doing it, gave a shit if I did it or not...even I didn't care if I did it or not, apparently. I will write an idea to death during the 30 days of NaNo and then lose ALL interest in it. Editing? I don't care, I really don't. I don't want to revisit it, I don't want to think about it. If a piece I wrote (a shorter one) requires more work on it, like a total rewrite? Hah. Never happens, ever. I am so thoroughly sick of the idea by the time that it got purged out that I don't ever want to see it again, much less make it better. I certainly never get to the point of sending it to a publisher.

I can't help but think that I am a big loser if I can't ever sustain interest in something to work on it for even a year, much less the years that it would require for me to get a novel going.

Hell, I tried to make an afghan square a week for the entire year and bombed out of that by May. It's not like THAT even takes a lot of time or thought, and yet I no longer give a shit about continuing.

I hate my short attention span sometimes.

Would anyone want to read moment-by-moment snarky commentary on Blood Ties episodes? I'm writing up more formal episode stuff on my silly links blog (I always go on about how I want to write TV commentary, so really, I should try DOING THAT), but I was wondering if anyone has seen the show enough to ah, care if I did it or not. It has been pointed out to me that those aren't fun if you haven't seen it, and other than me and iansane , I don't know if anyone else here has.  Yes, I'll LJ-cut if I do it.

For those who would want to see it, episodes are online and free.

The sad thing is that I am supposed to be working on my writing portfolio for my career counselor and I am doing this instead. Won't she be surprised when I come in with NOTHING next week?

Don't bother to chime in if your answer is no, I can ah, pretty much guess disinterest for myself. Only post if that is something you'd want to read.

Man, I wish I bothered to pay for extra cable sometimes. Or any cable. But...eh, I'm not gonna, so there you go.
( Read more... ) Really wish I was watching season 2. Oh well.

Today my box is clogged with stupid forwards about Jesus and how the Republicans want Obama dead and isn't that funny?

CLASS-AY. I'm pretty sure I heard that joke about "you could save them from drowning or you could win a Pulitzer for the photo you take of them dying...so would you use color or black and white film?" with other politicians before.

I'm not even sure if she reads this stuff when it's in front of her face sometimes.

Sometime, I totally want to sic my cousin Kristen on Mom and have Kristen forcibly convert her to becoming a Democrat. Because "I'm a Republican because my parents were" just does not cut the mustard any more, folks.

The few genres I actually hate of it:

• Sappy ass folk singing (i.e. John Denver and those people in Four Weddings And A Funeral)
• Death metal. Can't play + can't sing = why am I listening to this?
• Anything involving sitar, which is like fingernails on a chalkboard.
• Tuvan throat singing. Man, I was much happier before I knew that existed. Thanks for nothing, Bill Compton and Spider Robinson!

I kept putting watching this off 'cause I didn't want it to end.

Turn Left, or "Whoa, this episode just keeps getting worse and worse":

• Hm, somehow did not expect this episode to start out in China.
• Maybe you shouldn't leave him alone in this episode? From what I hear...
• Uh-oh.
• Well, in Donna's case, her future won't be happy...
• That redhead excuse is just weak.
• Watch her look of disgust there.
• What a bullshitter.
• Yes, you saw him outside in the market.
• *evil fortuneteller makes notes*
• Hey, wait, China isn't on Earth?
• Ewww, bug's eye view.
• Creepy woman. Stop talking to her, Donna.
• Title drop.
• "But what if I don't want to go right?"
• Ewwwwwwwwwww!
• Don't, Donna, I think one of those Keepers from Babylon 5 is about to get you!
• Ouch. Bad move.
• Happy birthday, Donna!
• Hey, isn't that Rose suspiciously showing up on the right?
• Guess not yet. Just lookalike hair.
• EWWWWW BUG!
• "I can't see it, but it's creepy."
• Hey, Donna might actually catch the alien shenanigans this go-round.
• Nobody thought, "Hey, that's a really suspicious Christmas star?" Oh, Donna did.
• That blonde chick, Not-Rose, looks mighty suspicious to me.
• Donna, you're supposed to run AWAY from the shooty laser ship.
• Ohhhh, the SPIDER. Who's the body?
• UH-OH. Damn, Donna, you just got the "last" Time Lord killed for GOOD.
• ROSE!
• Yeah...probably not anyone.
• Rose looks a lot older and longer faced right now. Strange. I guess the other dimension hasn't been too good to her?
• I wonder how the Doctor ran into the spider woman without Donna in order to get killed?
• Donna, the priority has changed right now...
• And Martha's now been taken out.
• DONNA, NOBODY CARES RIGHT NOW.
• Sure, now Donna pays attention to the news.
• Right on, Gramps! Clue bat to the redhead!
• Hey, Sarah Jane, HOW'D SHE GET ON THE HOSPITAL?...eh, I think this is another cheap shot of trying to get all the companions dead. Even the teenage companions of the companions.
• ROSE!
• "You still won't give me your name and you still keep staring at my back."
• Heh. Rose advises her to get the hell out for Christmas. All creepylike.
• "Well, leave me alone or be more helpful."
• So, what did Pete invent so Rose could beam in and out here?
• Love the antlers, Gramps.
• Hey, what's with the maid? Who was suspiciously looking like Martha for a bit?
• "This is not a joke. The Titanic is headed for Buckingham Palace."
• KABOOM.
• Was the Titanic a nuke?
• London Town has fallen down.
• Ouch, being "relocated." Yeah, turning right was a BIG career move.
• This is looking suspiciously concentration-camp-ish.
• "Do we hide in the attic from the Nazis?"
• Well, at least he's cheerful about it.
• Wow, how many people are in the front room?!
• Eh, the kitchen's probably a pretty good spot to have to live in.
• "Nobody lives in the bathroom." Yet, anyway.
• What war?!
• Since when does America have the money to be the money fairy to anyone else?
• And suddenly America has been eaten by Adipose. "Sixty million people have dissolved into fat. And the fat is walking...The fat is flying." BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
• How is anybody going to have anything get better? I'm with Mom on this one.
• I count at least 11 people in there that are not Nobles.
• Everyone loves to sing Bohemian Rhapsody!
• And now there IS a war. Ohhhhh Atmos.
• EVERYONE sees this back thing but her!
• Hey, was that the Doctor's dead friend there? I can't remember his face exactly, but it might be him.
• And there's Rose again.
• Uh-oh. I guess the Sontaran folks fighting back didn't go so well.
• Ouch, that was Torchwood. And Captain Jack...well, they can't kill him, but they can dump him off.
• Poor brokenhearted Rose.
• "Great hair. Some really great hair." BWAH.
• Oh honey, don't ask what can be worse.
• Well, that's specific.
• Wow. That is really awesome, in a terrible sort of way, to be THE most important person in creation. Even better than Rose, girlfriend!
• Heeeeeeeeee. I love how (a) Donna is all, "Blonde hair may shift the men, but not me," (b) Rose totally enjoys her saying that, and (c) Donna has a tear drop when she says there's plenty more of that.
• That telescope thing sounds ominous.
• As does "You're gonna die," of course.
• Uh-oh. CONCENTRATION CAMP OH SHIT. Poor guy, always looking on the bright side even at the end. Wilfrid knows. Oh, his eyes.
• "That's what they called them last time."
• Oh, THIS IS JUST FREAKY.
• They're going to DIE, Donna. The government's gonna murder them. AGAIN. Just a different nation this time. I keep wondering how much worse this shit's gonna get before Donna starts working on a turnaround...31 minutes so far.
• There goes the telescope for firewood. Oh well, nothing good to be seen in the skies any more any way.
• The telescope is working and all you see is black? UH-OH. I was right about the skies. Maybe it's time for everyone to mass suicide before it gets worse?
• Oh, thank you, the plot is moving on from Teh Doom.
• Heh. Wrong word, wrong direction turned....
• How'd Rose snag a TARDIS?
• "NO WAY!" Rose thinks this is hilarious.
• Well, you thought he was last of his kind.
• Awwww. The Doctor makes everyone smarter.
• "No comment."
• Heh. Rose got snitty at that.
• Here comes some wacky mirror action!
• Ewwww, it's a backpack Keeper!
• Heh.
• Oh, poor Donna's face.
• Rose, trotting out Doctor's lines isn't helping right now.
• Turn left, I guess. Retroactively.
• I kind of like this calm adult Rose.
• "THIS is to combat dehydration." Heh.
• "THAT's reassuring."
• Well...um.... Rose can't even say anything to that.
• Well, you do and you don't, honey.
• START RUNNING, DONNA.
• Well, technically she did meet a couple of men...
• And Rose is there.
• "Tell him this. Two words." I wonder how she's gonna be able to do that.
• And time runs backwards! Yay!
• STOMP THAT BUG!
• Get out, BITCH!
• And there's the Doctor, alive and well.
• Tak about years that never were.
• Doctor looks a little bug-eyed at that thought.
• "The whole wide universe, I met you for a second time." Hmmmmmmm.
• Heh.
• "Oh, this blonde chick..."
• Heh.
• OH SHIT ALERT! Girl's seeded it everywhere.
• Oh, and the TARDIS is all red and fire-like.
• DUM DUM DUM.............
• Previews for next week: everyone's back alive! CROSSOVER EPISODE YAY!
•  

The Stolen Earth, or "Everyone reunites, Rose!":

• So, Rose can cross into parallel worlds...but she was in the original one too. Does that count?
• EARTHQUAKE! DUCK AND COVER!
• DUCK AND COVER IN AN OPEN SPACE, APPARENTLY!
• "Well, yeah, it is..."
• UH-OH.
• "I didn't mean to do that..."
• UH-OH.
• Martha! In NYC for some reason!
• Torchwood!
• Sarah Jane! Teenage kids! I need to get around to watching this show too.
• Wilfrid brought a stick to fight with.
• So....what's so bad about the sky? It's night at 8 a.m.?
• Rose! With a big fucking gun!
• Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh. That is some kinda planetary freaky.
• Right, without the sun everyone should be dead in horrible ways. This is why I refuse to read "Life As We Knew It," that's freaky enough.
• "Donna, I'm taking you to the Shadow Proclaimation."
• "Please don't panic over the 26 new planets."
• Richard Dawkins!
• A cute dog!
• Ianto, now is not the time for a coffee break!
• Aw, Rhys. "I love you, you big idiot."
• Oh, good, nobody wants us dead yet.
• Kinda weird that the Doctor was on planet and got booted off.
• Oh great, everyone went crazy with the rioting. Good thing she's got a gun.
• "Do you like my gun?" Heeee.
• "Not more fucking spaceships again."
• Heh. Jack almost tried to flirt there, despite the situation.
• "Yeah, yeah, top secret, my hot ass. Nothing is secret from my hot ass."
• AW FUCK NOT THE STUPID DALEKS AGAIN. Though if it was the Daleks, they wouldn't bother to keep the planet alive right now.
• Aw, Jack kisses everyone, SJ cries.
• Even Jack? That'll take some doing.
• Rose doesn't even turn around to check what got blowed up. Badass alert.
• I know "everyone loves the Daleks," but man, they just get so fucking old to me. Every year, here come the Daleks again.
• There is just no point in trying to exterminate the little buggers, is there.
• Shadow Proclaimation = space police. Well, nice to know something like that exists. Oh, right, it's the rhinos again.
• "Yeah, yeah, everyone says that."
• The SP is behind on their count.
• "Clum's gone? Who'd want Clum?"
• Heeeee. Watch the Doctor smirk.
• And now we know why they're behind the count.
• Oh shit, Martha...
• Project Indigo = what?
• Aw crap, here they go again.
• The what key?!
• Either way, get out of there before you're exterminated.
• Jack, either the Daleks get her or the vest does.
• Indigo = wonky teleportation. Uh-oh.
• She's down, not dead?
• I don't know what to say about this Dalek crap.
• I thought that thing got OFF my back!
• Oh, GREAT.
• BEES BEING GONE?
• "You're saying bees are aliens?" "Don't be daft. Not all of them." Bees are the new dolphins.
• Okay, I don't know what the hell is going on.
• "Oh. Shit." Buh-bye, running away now...
• "Hey, paint gun can be useful." Wilfrid's no fool.
• Time for some zapping.
• Get that paint gun!
• Aw man!
• So, Rose and her BFG came along! "Do you wanna swap?"
• Heh. Mom's been totally unaware of this shit?
• Medusa Cascade is...what? Pretty, but what?
• "I came here when I was just a kid. Ninety years old."
• "Yeah, all we need is for YOU to go all Cameron Frye on us right now."
• Everyone huddles in fear.
• HARRIET JONES!
• Calling him OUT! I love her.
• Rose is all "Pay attention to meeeee!"
• Aw, Rose is all left out. "Who's she? I wanna get through!" Martha's just fine.
• Harriet, you're such a dork and I love you.
• Jack can't stop.
• Poor Rose.
• Mr. Copper?
• Apparently nobody told Jack what the key was, even in a bar.
• Harriet ain't an idiot either.
• Rose so jealous.
• World's biggest phone call.
• Brave woman, Harriet.
• Yeah, I'd like to see everyone try to dial that 555.
• It...sorta worked?
• Children of Time. Good name for a rock band?
• Watch everyone break their computers over this.
• Sigh. Not looking forward to this moment.
• Oh crap, TARDIS on fire.
• Awwwwww.
• Hee, last time she gets to say it, and she's gonna do it.
• *sigh*
• So...how'd all the planets just zap on in?
• Call gone through!
• Heh. "That's Jack. Don't. Just don't."
• Poor Rose.
• Uh-oh. SJ knows who it is.
• And man, he is ugleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
• "Not really."
• WHY would you try to save him?
• Dalek Caan seems a little...um....WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
• Again. Another effing bunch of Daleks.
• Ewww, didn't need to see that.
• For a manufactured race, you sure seem to be able to make them out of everything.
• Uh-oh. Who wants to win at "most faithful" now?
• Be sure to put your spiffy coat on before you leave, Jack.
• "No, really. I swear I'm coming back this time. Hopefully before the Daleks off you." Yeah, too late for that one.
• Mom!
• That kid reminds me a bit too much of Kyle XY.
• Aw, she looks so cute there. Blastoff!
• Oooooh.
• Hey baby!
• And now I just wait for something bad to happen at the moment of contact, because this is just too dramatic.
• Yup, here comes a Dalek.
• Thank you, Jack.
• Jack with two BFG's. He must like that.
• Going out like Owen and Tosh. And in Ianto's case, well dressed too.
• Uh-oh.
• I think Gwen's almost enjoying that.
• Aw man, I thought he wasn't supposed to do that again for one more episode and four more holiday specials!

Journey's End, or "Is this a happy ending or not?":

• Hey, remember my spare hand?
• MICKEY! JACKIE! I was wondering where you were!
• Hey, bullet time!
• What the heck? Who did that?
• Hee. "Why would I want to change? Look at me."
• Yes, we know, Doctor.
• Oh, just clinch already.
• Heeeeeeeee, Donna. Sadly, you may be the one chick Jack wasn't immediately pouncing on.
• Aw, Tosh saved them from beyond the grave. Makes for a dull episode for the Torchwood folks, though.
• Oh CRAP.
• Good point on the guns.
• Mickey kisses his BFG goodbye.
• "I know how this teleport works. I think."
• It's probably the nuke codes or something.
• Guess Martha wasn't quite with her mom at the end of the world after all.
• Hee, he gets so giggly when she says return.
• Chiswick is pronounced "Chisick?" Oh, you British.
• Oh, so now we're fighting REALLY BADASS DALEKS.
• Donna seems to be having a Moment.
• "Somehow it's not so special to be the third one brilliant in this conversation."
• So, we all go together when we go?
• Oh shit!
• "So much for your time travel career."
• TARDIS on fire again.
• That was looking suspiciously like a TARDISgasm.
• "Hey, wait a minute..."
• "It's you! Naked!"
• Awwww.
• Fooled you!
• Jack looks like he wants to hold the Doctor's hand too.
• Oh, come on, they can't kill him again. Oh, wait, Rose...does she know that, I forgot?
• Heh, wink.
• Time Lords are like worms :)
• "Watch it, spaceman!" "Watch it, Earth girl!" It's Buffy and Dawn all over again with the "he's made out of me" bit.
• "Oh, that's DISGUSTING!"
• "All that attitude, all that lip. 'Cause all this time you think you're not worth it. Shouting at the world because no one's listening. Well, why should they?" Oh, Doctor, you just nailed every single smartass in the entire universe right there.
• Martha speaks German now?
• I dunno what is up with that chick.
• Oh, she's crooked. Or freaked out. I want subtitles.
• Go Jack!
• Well, try to be optimistic, SJ.
• Doctor pushing buttons, as usual.
• Yeah, I dunno what's going on here.
• Aw crap, Jackie's gonna get killed again?
• Whew, Jackie.
• Boy, does everyone die.
• Whee, it's like reading the Liaden Universe prequels.
• The ultimate "exterminate." Literally zap everyone else out...
• Mickey Mouse? Captain Cheesecake? Awwww.
• "And that's beefcake." "And that's enough hugging."
• Ooh, necklace bomb.
• Wow, this must be really effing bad if one guy wants to be anonymous for it.
• Heeeee. This sounds like fun.
• Yup, that's the nuke button.
• "Who designed that? Someone named Osterhagen, I suppose."
• I bet they put that in place after the Master.
• Good one, Martha.
• Aw, Rose and Martha meet.
• Mutually Assured Destruction!
• Eh, I dunno about abhorring violence.
• "You take ordinary people and you fashion them into weapons." Oh, come on, they're human and all humans do that shit with or without alien intervention. Humans love to blow shit up and shoot things. DUH.
• Aww, Doctor finds out about Harriet.
• Massive guilt trip ensues.
• Aw, I think he's gonna cry.
• Dammit, everybody foiled!
• Since when does asking pretty please stop ANYBODY?
• On the other hand, "nothing can stop the detonation" sure will. You go, Doctor2.
• Heh. The expression on Doctor 1's face...
• MY big gun now. Never mind.
• Heh. Donna, what have you been up to?
• "Do you wanna bet, time boy?"
• Heeeeeeeee. How'd you even say that?
• "That was a two-way biological metacrisis!" Ood called it.
• "Well, don't just stand there, you skinny boys in suits. Get to work!"
• Brag, brag, brag. It's kind of adorable. And she types fast, too.
• Back with the big guns!
• "Watch me kick a Dalek."
• "And then play bumper cars with them."
• More Adipose babies! And presumably Clum might be wanted.
• Watch out for that glowy eye thing.
• Jack, I think we can all imagine that for ourselves.
• Huh. Dalek Caan was on the Doctor's side? Whoa. I'm kind of impressed.
• Mmm, BFG fire Dalek.
• Man, I'd love it if they really got rid of the Daleks.
• Good point. There's three Doctors now, didn't you say?
• Daleks pop like corn.
• Whew, Gwen and Ianto are out.
• EVERYBODY IN!
• "Jackie? Jack? MICKEY!"
• Oh, come on, why the hell do you want to save him again?
• "Uh, just the Dalek one at the moment. I put the rest back."
• "Can't get rid of him."
• Uh, Doctor, Rose, aren't y'all a bit busy to point that out?
• Affirmative! They even bring the DOG back.
• All right, we've got six proper pilots... "No, Jackie, not you, don't touch anything."
• Gwen clearly thinks she's on a roller coaster.
• Martha's mom sensibly hides under a table. Duck and cover position would be good, though... (Look, I grew up in earthquake country, I'm gonna notice how to behave when the ground is shaking.)
• Look at Martha smiling at the camera like it's the outtakes. "HI MOM! DRIVING THE TARDIS ON VACATION!"
• Jack's pumping something. Of course.
• Donna, still trying to get in Jack's pants.
• EVERYBODY HUGS!
• Aww. "The biggest family on earth."
• Aw. What, are Mickey and Jackie breaking up?
• I'm sure the government will uh, have objections to "get rid of that Osterhagen thing."
• Aw, Jack and Martha walk off hand in hand.
• Mickey decides to go on home. Heh. Who's left?
• Parallel Bad Wolf Bay again.
• Here we go again with the farewells...
• "Hey, wait, what? What are you picking on ME for?"
• Yeah, he's trying to give you a SPARE, honey. The take home platter. I don't know if this is a happy ending for these two or not, exactly, but I think it's the best the show can do.
• Doctor2 is clearly taller than Doctor1.
• Yes, it does, dimwit.
• Original Recipe STILL can't say it, Doctor2 can. With a clinch. Good on him. Original Recipe runs like a thief in the night. Doctor2 and Rose just look gobsmacked.
• DoctorDonna just...broke. Randomly.
• And yet, clearly it was just fine to have the Doctor2 go off without a hitch. No explanation for that one, eh?
• Oh, you know he's going to. Which leads to many "The Doctor is a dick" discussions on the Internet.
• Not quite the happy reunion you were expecting, Gramps.
• "All those wonderful things she did."
• Aw man.
• I still think they're gonna fix this in a Christmas special sometime.
• "For all the good that does if everyone but Donna remembers her."
• "For one shining moment, she was the most important woman in the universe."
• "Well, maybe you should tell her that once in awhile." *applauds*
• That didn't trigger her rememberance any to actually see him there? Just wondering.
• Grandpa just aged ten years.
• "Yeah, so much for friendship. I hate it when they all get their own lives."
• "Well, at least someone in the Noble house remembers me."
• Wow. The Doctor like, took off his jacket.
• *sigh*

And now I'm at the end. So sad. I put watching this disc off because of that.

So....where are the illegal downloads?

Blah blah spoiler space THIS SHOW IS CRAZY GOOD TIMES MAN.
( Read more... )I can't wait for my mail tomorrow and #5 to come in. I am hooked now.

Here we go again... me watching this instead of cleaning.( Read more... )Hmm.

With an attempted LJ cut from the getgo. Let's see if that works if you don't try to re-edit one in. That seems to work...

( Read more )Honestly, I've decided this show is totally stupid, but FUNNY.

Silence in the Library, or "Who IS this chick?"

• Cool surreal opening to this one. Sometimes I think BBC shows have this really odd fakey look to them.
• Knock knock!
• Who's there?
• 51st again. Paging Captain Jack...okay, I know he's not here, but I always think of him then.
• A world of books. AWESOME.
• His finger is the Dewey Decimal System?
• Um, right, Doctor.
• What a shock, the library is silent!
• Maybe he wanted a book before he hit the beach?
• Oh, that's creepy. Bookworms?
• Well, it is Doctor Who and the 51st century, I can't see why they suddenly wouldn't be alive.
• Hygeine taboo? Hee.
• The delivery of this message is just so bizarre when delivered flat and without the expletives.
• Y'know what? MAYBE Y'ALL SHOULD HOP IN THAT TARDIS AND LEAVE NOW.
• You don't want to know.
• Donna thinks it's a kiss rather than from Professor Xavier, I guess.
• You kick it, girl.
• And here we are back with the kid again.
• And she's a... round camera thingie.
• "Sometimes with boyfriends you need the element of surprise." Bwah.
• Wow, this camera girl thing is weird!
• Ew, that's what they do with cadavers now. Donna won't be filling out a donor card here.
• Uh, what?
• Nice ring, Donna.
• OH SHIT IT'S THE OTHERS FROM LOST AND THEY'RE IN SPACESUITS NOW!!!!111111111
• Hey baby!
• "I'm a time traveler, I point and laugh at archaeologists."
• "If you understand me, look very, very scared....No, a bit more scared than that." BWAH.
• Double the Daves, double your pleasure. Probably members of the Dave Conspiracy.
• Uh-oh, that's not the right attitude to take, Ms. Song.
• Hm, Professor Song is actually rather sensible.
• Whoa. "I don't fancy you." Snerk. And what's with the pretty boy? Hee.
• Donna's looking at them like, "Stop treating the temp like crap."
• "The usual?"
• TARDIS journal!
• Oh, that is so odd. Him "young" and her "old?" Not to mention he probably met her in a whole different body.
• "First time we've met on my end. Sorry."
• God, SOMEONE ANSWER THE FUCKING PHONE.
• Oh, head phone, it's for YOU.
• Oh, that TV trick was COOOOOOOOOOOOL.
• And the Doctor's at a loss for words here.
• Peek ahead, Doctor, you know you want to!
• Dammit! It's so Time Traveler's Wife. She's probably got the list he gave her of all the times he'll pop up between ages 6-18.
• Uh-oh, when the Library starts chucking books, you know she's not having a good day.
• Cal = girl, duh.
• Aw, poor Miss Evangelista.
• "Cause I ripped it up. I made a point there."
• Uh-oh....
• Oh, time travelers.
• I think most of y'all are gonna find that out the hard way. Speaking of, DON'T GO IN THERE MISS EVANGELISTA!
• See, y'all should have paid attention to her.
• Ewwww.
• Oh, you don't want to know.
• Aw, Donna's the nice one.
• This is just all kinds of effing weird to watch.
• Maybe y'all shouldn't be standing in the shadowy areas here?
• And which world is Cal in here? HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
• Poor kiddo.
• Well, now he's met you.
• Another companion in love with the Doctor, I see.
• Uh-oh... Spoilers.
• Into the TARDIS and leave, people. DUH.
• Heh, him and shops.
• UH-OH.
• This kind of reminds me of "Blink" in some ways.
• "We're not, that was a clever line to shut you up." Also, good point about the suits.
• "Hey, wait a minute, since when do I share my favorite toy?"
• "Hey, I don't want to be teleported!"
• "THAT's how you do it!"
• And that so didn't work at all...uh-oh.
• UH-OH.
• Too late.
• And that's probably the data ghost.
• That was a bad move.
• Helmets do nothing.
• And suddenly we're in a zombie movie.
• Uh...thanks for sharing, honey?
• Define "saved."
• I like the Doctor's flamingo-ish posing there.
• Uh-oh.
• OH THAT'S JUST FREAKY. And now we know how they define "saved."
• Creepy catchphrases all over this episode.
• CLIFFHANGER OH SHITORAMA.

Forest of the Dead, or "Everybody's saved!...sorta."

• Credits. Well, Donna's still around...
• I dunno about that imagination bit. Girl's got interesting reception.
• Hey, Donna!
• It's Doctor Moon!
• "And then you remembered!" And that's not suspicious at all!
• CAL!
• Wow, way to lead her answers there.
• Why yes, that is suspicious.
• Hello, nurse, that's what you wear to go fishing?
• Marry him, apparently!
• CAL!
• Hey, wait a minute....
• Oh, this just makes me sad.
• Oh, so did ya like the end of the universe? I bet there's some kind of Back to the Future episode they could do with those two in different bodies popping around the backs of Nine and Rose or something.
• OH NO. NOT REALLY. I DIDN'T GET MARRIED, DID I?
• I wonder why she'd apologize for that?
• "Well, some hair dryers, but I'm working on that..."
• "Someone in this library is communicating with the moon." Donna!
• Pay attention, next girl to be doomed is up.
• Right, it didn't.
• Is that really a good idea?
• Uh-oh.
• That is some ugly-ass Sculpey.
• What's that, the Grim Reaper?
• You're gonna have to speak up there, Cal.
• Yes, it's a great idea to approach a girl wearing THAT outfit. That's not creepy or suspicious at all.
• Oh, Miss Evangelista...
• Good point. "Pull him out when he's too stupid to live."
• Books, come from trees, dude? Clue in? Oh, DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
• I guess the books are alive. Sorta.
• Hee.
• Poor Donna. A billion cloned kids. And one wonky-ass Miss Evangelista.
• River Song continues to pout that she grabbed the early version.
• "An old age would be nice."
• Awww.
• "So, now I'm smart but less pretty."
• Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh.
• Oh, poor Donna. Nobody tell her.
• Dieting does nothing!
• Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, poor Miss Evangelista. Now she's a ugly Goth nerd.
• Wow, you just zapped your dad. Bad move.
• Heh, I thought he said, "This planet's gonna crap like an egg."
• Zapped him too!
• Oh, that's creepy for the kids, to know they're not real. And just as Donna says that...musta blinked.
• Oh, sleep mode = toy harassment. SO BIZARRE.
• Shitty way to treat your relatives? Or creative heaven? The Doctor looks kinda sick.
• Heh.
• That was so fast I couldn't catch most of it. Which is a shame. Did he say something about her hair?
• "Sometimes I really hate you!" "I know!"
• Awww, poor Anita.
• Heeeeeeeeeeee. Look me up. Awesome.
• Ouch! Dammit, girl!
• "Why'd you even have handcuffs?" "Spoilers!"
• Damn, girl. She'd rather die than have that wiped? Ouch.
• Last word: "Spoilers."
• Awwww, Donna's husband.
• They're all back!
• And the poor sad Doctor. Knows the end of the story just as it begun.
• How come Donna has her original outfit? Did they all wear black that day?
• And he wasn't even real.
• The perfect man for Donna hardly ever spoke. BWAH.
• "Not really." Right, Donna.
• Aw, there he was! Just missed him! Poor Donna. Though it'd be cool if somehow they could reunite in some weird way...
• Don't push that over the railing, dammit. Sigh.
• Hey, wait a minute...You stuck a data core in there? Can you download her ass?
• I don't even know what the hell is going on now. He's giving Charlotte some company? What?
• Hey, nice outfit, River!
• Reunited, all, for whatever that's worth. Even fixed Miss Evangelista.
• "Some days, nobody dies at all."
• They make this look SO intense. Hah, it worked.
• And now River's got make-believe children.

Midnight, or "See, this is why the Doctor needs a companion around, to prove he's not batshit crazy."

• Cool looking planet there. And it's a spa, no less.
• Heh.
• "What could possibly go wrong?" Hm, I somehow have the feeling Donna's not in this episode.
• Wow, since when does the Doctor fly on a plane like normal people?
• Thanks for sharing, Mr. Science.
• Why Doctor, that one might be blonde, but she seems a bit old for your tastes.
• "...and variations thereupon." BWAH.
• Suddenly I feel like I'm on Star Tours.
• Wait, what, no air? What?
• What on EARTH is that?!
• I'll take "Things that shouldn't be mingled together for $100, Alex." *zap*
• Oh, no, nobody wants to do THAT...
• Nobody uses seatbelts?
• Ouch, poor lady. I used to make jokes about "when someone wants space, move to Pluto", but here they mean it.
• Rose reference. Bet she somehow pops up on a screen again or some shit soon.
• DOUBLEMEAT PALACE REFERENCE!
• They should have called this episode "Dorks On A Plane."
• Whenever the flight attendant wigs, watch it.
• I want to know who's a "variation thereupon."
• "I'm a Doctor, I'm very clever." Brag brag brag.
• Wait, what....? The windows will kill you, something what now?
• OOOH SHINY.
• OH SHIT NOT THE VASHTA NERADA AGAIN! NO SHADOWS!
• If y'all would stop yelling, 'cause it makes the air run out faster...
• Then again, maybe not.
• Who's that knocking on my plane?
• Killer light sounds SO weird.
• AND IT'S COMING IN!
• DON'T KNOCK BACK!
• "Don't just stand there telling us the rules!" I love this line.
• Is her head gonna explode?
• Technically, it should be coming for everybody, you're not special.
• EVERYONE LURCH LEFT! EVERYONE LURCH RIGHT!
• Did I call it on the screen or WHAT? High-five to myself.
• I'm guessing somehow she's the "variation thereupon?"
• KILLER LIGHT!
• Yeah, I don't think we want to know why she won't turn around.
• Dramatic reveal here....and no, she didn't end up Evangelista'd around the face like I was expecting. That said, clear case of weird possession here.
• Okay, guys, she can't stop it. Stop poking the parrot.
• I don't know how "Sky" can keep up mimicking everyone.
• Idiots can't take hints.
• Um, Doctor, I think we figured out that she's a mind-reading mimic. That said, way to flatter yourself!
• Oh, come on, she had freaky eyes before that.
• SO EVERYONE STOP LOOKING AND SHUT THE CRAP UP AND TAKE A HINT ALREADY.
• Heee.
• STUPID PEOPLE CAN'T STOP TALKING EVEN THOUGH IT'S VERY OBVIOUS THAT Y'ALL SHOULD.
• Come on, like she had a problem getting in the first time? Dudes, throwing her out is probably not gonna solve shit.
• "Nah, we'll still throw her out." Watch the Doctor throw a shit fit now.
• Watch that screen...
• "Yeah, we're about to throw YOU out too, Doctor."
• Wow, watching them all turn on him is rather impressive.
• Oh lordy.
• That's...probably not a good sign, is it?
• The music just went all sorts of wonky. HINT.
• Oh, this is just all kinds of weird.
• UH-OH.
• The Doctor now looks like he's trying to take a massive crap.
• Oh, now the hysterical lady's hugging her? Oh, that can't be a bad move at all :P
• Listen to Dede, people.
• Someone's being framed...
• This tourist couple is totally stoopid.
• Meanwhile, the Doctor is drooling.
• So, who's the cleverest in the room now?
• Make up your minds about being killers, idiots.
• Hah, "allons-y"
• You go, flight attendant! Self-sacrifice, alas, but good on her. Kinda like "42."
• "No you didn't, you IDIOT." I think the Doctor just wants to like, rip her head off right now.
• "So....not a good trip, huh?" "I should have taken the spa vacation."
• Heh, "no, don't do that. I've had enough parrotting."
• Next episode...ROSE!

AWESOME episodes.

They are:
(a) parked outside on blankets with a tent, studying
(b) hung up signs protesting how the new chancellor gets a fat raise
(c) being quiet.

I totally approve of this on all levels. Best protest ever.

I've decided to give True Blood the "Doctor Who Virgin Post" treatment and blog "in the moment" while watching the DVD's. No, I'm not done with Doctor Who yet, I just got this one in the mail and think I can finish watching it faster so it can re-hit the Netflix by the end of the week.

For the record: read all the books, have seen episodes 4 and 5 alone while the show was actually airing live, so I have a little bit of a clue what's going on.


Strange Love: in which Sookie and Bill fall in love at first sight, and Jason might have fucked someone to death.

• Why, what a coincidence, I tried that when "bored" once. Lucky for the boy there that he's not the one driving this time.
• I cannot believe I just admitted to that in public. Man, I was nuts when I was 21.
• Hey, Jessica Tuck! Oh, I remember One Life To Live!
• Not yet, anyway, on the nukes or slaves.
• Wow, aren't we Gothing out today. Here come the dimwits.
• Check that dude's accent.
• Right, VAMPIRES DON'T DROWN, DUMBASS.
• Way to go off the stereotypes, folks. I'm waiting for the guy in the back to vamp out any second now. Much as I hate Darla, Joss Whedon set that tone for everybody else.
• Ooooh, that was a bad move.
• That girl's expression during "She CLAWED HER OWN FACE OFF" is hi-larious.
• Oh, this is gonna be GOOOOOOOD.
• I love it, that was like a switchblade.
• Suddenly it's not fun to play a Goth any more.
• I really, really don't get the credits for this show. They are just effing weird to me. This show so doesn't remind me of the books with that.
• Here comes Sookie. I always wondered why the hell anyone would name their child that.
• "Dear Mr. Alcoholic: maybe you shouldn't hang out in a bar. Dear Ms. Kinky: thanks for sharing."
• Aw man, not again!
• I always wondered what the fuck the logic was behind having Sookie work in a bar if she can't take working a white collar job 'cause of the mental noise. Not unless drunkenness blocked thought transmission, which it does not. It doesn't make a lick of sense in the books either.
• Hello, Tara, you industrious employee. Bet you're jealous of your fictional incarnation for not working at SmallMart.
• I totally must applaud her "why don't you find it online or call ahead?" logic. On the other hand, I wouldn't have gone there on the outfit.
• Bwah. I think I love her. I seem to recall Merry and I having a conversation about how I was a white non-Southern version of Tara at times.
• Subtlety is not going on here.
• Arlene is a lot hotter than in the books. I always pictured her as one of those fortysomething floozies.
• "I didn't need to know that about the runs and THEN you shared that Mac Express crap."
• Ah, Lafayette. I have been looking forward to your arrival. And your biceps.
• Porn star? Someone has a wild imagination with that little nun's waitress outfit.
• Poor terrified Sookie's getting terrified by The Pussy as well during this conversation. Well, THAT's certainly different from the books.
• And here come the boobies and sex, thank you, HBO. And the subtle bite marks. Well, at least she didn't lie when you called her on it.
• Oh, Jason, you're too good to pay for it? Really?
• Heh, Hustler.
• That perked him right up.
• UH-OH SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID THAT. Why don't you pull out a photo of your sweetheart and put on a red shirt while you're at it?
• Of course he does.
• Well, DUH.
• Again, that wasn't subtle, Sam. No hitting on the employees. That's what's always driven me nuts about Sam, really.
• Oh, and here comes Twue Vampire Luv. At least for now. Mmm, listen to that quiet...plus the music.
• Aw, poor baby, had to wait two years for a vamp to come in.
• Sookie is such a fangirl.
• Hint hint on Sam there.
• So, Bill, why ARE you here tonight?
• "I'm not looking to make friends. Y'all don't take hints?"
• Hello, blurry vampire sex!
• Did that just ruin your orgasm, Jason? Suddenly you don't seem to be having so much fun?
• Poor Bill. Just NOT enjoying this shit. What's the significance of that ugly ring?
• And here we go. No, he can't. Even free beer won't keep them there when there's blood and money to be had...
• Back to the kinky shit. Oh, hey, look, photo of your sweetheart AND YOU'RE WEARING A RED DRESS! DID I CALL THIS SHIT OR WHAT?! I swear I didn't cheat that at all.
• Poor Bill. How sad are you that two idiot redneck humans can nab your ass? That's just embarrassing.
• You go, Sookie!
• Ouuuuuuch. Cheap way to hold someone though, I guess.
• Hi, Sam! Yeah, sure, THAT way you can make out with Sookie.
• Bill is smarter than Sookie on that one.
• Heh, heh, heh, I knew he'd wanna go for the groin. I always thought if one was going to get it on with a vampire, they really should let the guy bite them down there because then you don't have to worry about wearing scarves.
• I don't think they do the superspeed effect all that well on this show. It's too Bionic Woman.
• Hee hee hee. Vampire Bill!
• See, Sookie, don't go on vampire stereotypes! Billy Bob would object to it.
• Guess you think you're out of the woods already to be taking that chain off.
• Sam, you're back! Little outta breath there?
• Sam's not an idiot, I see.
• Oh, watch Tara manipulate him...
• Here comes dumbass. Dressed. Oh, Tara, no.
• "Hey, I saw you checking out my plumber's crack."
• Tara's all, "Do I have to watch this?"
• Well, nice to hear you're not an idiot too, honey. On the other hand, you've probably got some raging case of VD from sleeping with the manwhore.
• I don't think she was going to guess that one, Sookie.
• "Oh god, yes, I did, I so wanna be a fangbanger, Grams!" Grams is clearly quite the open-minded sort not to be fazed by this.
• That cat with Sookie so looks like that "Happy cat is all out of happy" picture.
• Hey baby!
• What the heck shirt is she wearing? I bet it's something really dorky.
• His shirt, however...
• Wow, already? Girl is one forward virgin. Oh, must be a dream sequence. I hate dream sequences.
• Oh, those are those freaking cherubs on her shirt. Dorky, indeed, but I was expecting like, Debbie Gibson or Tiffany or the Jonas Brothers.
• Right, like you know so much about vamps from watching one DIY porno, Jason.
• UH-OH. Suddenly breakfast doesn't taste so good any more.
• "I went to high school with Maudette." "I just fucked Maudette." Guess who wins?
• Oh, Grams, don't act like you don't know what that is.
• Uh....I dunno how I know that...I'm telepathic too! Right! Sookie really should be reading his brain right now, show, btw. Seriously, kind of a fail moment that they didn't notice this.
• I can't imagine how pure little Jason would know these details.
• Spoken like a true waitress, Sookie.
• Again, Jason, you know way too much about this.
• Oh, NOW she reads him. How come suddenly she has to touch him to do that? Folks, this is why telepath series have issues, people fall down on the job on the logic.
• "Hey baby, the girl I fucked last night is dead, and I gotta line up a replacement. Wanna?" Oh, Jason, you sentimental fool.
• Hey, Lafayette. Day job?
• "Relationship? I just fuck 'em, dude. They're lucky if I remember their names." Jason is a shittastic actor.
• No, not really, you can't.
• Uhhhhhhhhhhhh...
• Heh heh heh. NAILED. God, Jason's the dumbest guy in town. And this is only episode 1, 11 1/2 more episodes of stoopid to go.
• "Don't tell my sister, not like she won't hear it through the rumor mill/someone's head in five minutes anyway."
• I love Grams' priorities.
• I always thought "Descendants of the Glorious Dead" was a really amusing name, btw.
• Ah, Tara, hard at work. Well, at least she reads.
• No, that is totally true.
• "Ain't that funny, a black girl being named after a plantation?" I love the irony myself.
• Speaking of the rumor mill...
• "Yeah, he's too stupid to kill anyone."
• Disease on a stick.
• I love how Lafayette just TMI's in this random dude's face.
• UTILIKILT SPOTTING! I didn't know those things made it to Louisiana. I thought that was a Northwest rennie sort of thing.
• I think that depends on how you define psychic.
• Way to diss your boss loudly, Arlene.
• Speaking of the rumor mill...
• Rene's accent is just terrible. What the hell did he say?
• Stand up...only in his crotch.
• Hey baby!
• Heh, Tara.
• Well, duh.
• Oh, Sookie, it's a little weird to share that special detail before the first date at all, much less *twice* before the first date.
• Heh. I've read the later books, true dat!
• Aw, that's so romantic.
• O RLY?
• Yeah, I'd imagine she knows, she could hear them all yakking.
• Well, duh, we all know that. Especially those who saw Twilight. Oh well, the dialogue is still better than that.
• Sam, stop manhandling your employees. She could sue you.
• Okay, good point on the vigilante bit. Or at least call the police, grab your boss, and THEN grab the heavy chain and go out there.
• "MORE THAN I NEEDED TO KNOW!" Though having her pick up that information the same as she does everything else uh, doesn't play out so well with later developments in this series.
• "Hey, it's not like I WANT in y'alls heads. That is NOT a choice. Except for when they edit it that way, but that's not my fault they can't figure out continuity."
• Hey ba...oh, wait, you're not Bill.
• "Go home, Sam, I can decide to be a fangbanger on my own recognizance. I AM over 21 and all." (At least, I am presuming since she works in a bar.)
• Ouch!
• That is some fake-looking kicking from behind.
• End of show! CLIFFHANGER! Oh, I LIKE the end credits song.

"The First Taste." In which Bill shows off his mad vampire skillz and Jason gets out of jail to fuck again.

• That is one bloody girl.
• Maybe y'all shouldn't stop the killing for a little love moment right now?
• Hi, Sam. Just go bite already.
• Oh, and speaking of bite...HEY BABY! Remember what I said before about how did these two kick Bill's ass before? I don't see HOW. He didn't seem to be disabled in that bar there.
• Creepy credits time.
• Watching your own DIY porn with the police isn't nearly as sexy. Especially when it looks like she's all dead n' stuff. Hey, wait...
• Wow, what a sicko to fake her own death on camera just to fuck with you. WOW.
• I love Jason's "hey, I didn't kill her!" little arm dance of triumph.
• Poor Sookie.
• So much for that, Jason. Won't last long.
• And so much for the tape clearing your ass.
• "Well, he's right. He ain't that smart."
• Uh-oh, "I can't feel my legs." Well, that won't do. Chugalug! CHUG! CHUG! CHUG!
• BWAH, ANGELINA ADOPTS VAMPIRE BABY. Thank you, show, for going there, 'cause you know they would.
• I love your custom ring, babe.
• No, you're not coming, yet anyway.
• Oh, Jason.
• *sluuuuurp*
• "Bill, you were just licking blood off my head. I don't think it gets more personal than that." Bwah. He did clean her head up nice.
• Bwah, mustard attack.
• Again, they're not managing how and when Sookie hears people too well, I think, if she can sometimes block her friends but not people at the bar.
• Bill looks a lot cuter in the moonlight, less fake sickly makeup somehow. Go figure.
• Pimp that blingy shirt, homeboy.
• Pimp that hair pick.
• That's how you define "straightest man here?"
• Yes, you are right, sir. Bwah, Tara. I wish I could pull that drivel off.
• And here we go again with the nekkid. Where's the camera?
• "YOU DA MAN!"
• Yeah, Bill thinks the way I do on that "glorious" crap.
• Oh no, not another fangbanger! Well, at least this one's still moving, for now.
• Heh. This is just funny. "Well, that's going to make it difficult to have a dialogue."
• "Jesus kinda is a vampire, minus the blood and daylight rules."
• Okay, that's a little disturbing, Sookie. I'm surprised that didn't just make you go vegetarian to see the pig before it got slaughtered.
• *snicker* Stereotypes again!
• Really? Everybody must have an interesting definition of "good", then.
• "Hey, he remembered my name!" Tara, you can do better. Alone and STD-free would be better.
• Good riddance to bad rubbish!
• Wow, that is one skimpy dress there, Sookie.
• Hey, wow, hick police actually do police work!
• That's downright sassy of you, girl.
• That was...weird.
• So much for Jason not wanting to meet a vampire.
• "Um, yes."
• Tara, do NOT have a crush on this man. Toilet paper is more intelligent than him.
• HEY BABY!
• "No, but you could like, wear a BELL or something."
• "This is a little embarrassing."
• Yes, do remember that, Sookie.
• "Uh...yeah, sorry."
• Fire and ice here, baby.
• Good point, Tara.
• Heh. Calling dibs on seniority!
• Oh, you make yourself look like a fool, dude.
• "Good tip to know."
• Sam again.
• There's a reason for that, Jason.
• "It's not that much of a secret."
• So much for that move.
• "You're really going to play chicken with a vampire?"
• And she thinks it's hi-larious!
• Wow, that little girl in the schoolroom does look like Anna Paquin.
• "The psychologist is a load of crap."
• "I can make whoopee real good." Oh yeah, AND save your life. Point to Bill.
• I love a vamp who DIY's his own house.
• Hubba hubba.
• "Dammit, I knew I should have eaten before I left. I hate it when I prematurely ejaculate on the first date."
• I highly doubt that, Dawn.
• Do you ever STOP being horny? (And we're not even on to that episode yet.)
• HAH HAH!
• Jason, you make love with your socks on? Yuck.
• Heh. Well, Tara tried.
• You go, Rene.
• "Hey, I might as well take the free beer."
• "Ewww, that's more than I wanted to know."
• "I'm so going to have to pretend I didn't hear that."
• "Please read my mind and fuck me instead? Puh-leeze?"
• Oh, that painting's not at all suspicious.
• And Tara's not at all obvious.
• Bwah, someone got the Reverend.
• Nice car.
• That is some of the biggest hair I have ever seen.
• Wow, way to skank it up there, guys.
• And there's Maudette's creepy dude. Cliffhanger!

Seriously, y'all can skip reading this. I am just pissed off and don't want to have to be around other humans today, and have to.
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Bleah.

Disclaimer: I'm a Christie fan.

• "You can tell what year it is is just by smelling? Or maybe the big vintage car gave it away." Love you, Donna.
• Sweet! It's like one of those murder mystery parties, but for reals!
• Show-off, you and your "invitation."
• Here comes Miss Scarlet with the lead pipe. Oh, wait, it's Colonel Mustard--the Big Giant Bug version!
• His expression at "flapper or slapper." Well, at least one of them changed her jumper.
• "Don't do that" strikes its ugly head once again. Guess we have to have that trope in every season.
• "THE Unicorn." Ohhhh, it's a thief.
• Donna, I thought he told you not to do that.
• Only during this time period does anyone invite men of the church to a party.
• And yet we'll introduce her anyway!
• I dunno if Agatha was a blonde (can't tell from the pics I've seen), but this chick has the face down pretty well.
• Doctor, the more you amend that, the more I think (a) you're bragging, and (b) getting kinda rude there.
• Spoken like a chick who attempted to write some depressing romances.
• When is this set, in between her husbands? I have no recollection of the dates.
• Belgians are bums except for Poirot, I take it?
• Seriously, a professor Plum in the library? Snerk!
• Awesome, it IS disappearance day! Naturally, it must all be the Doctor's fault.
• Donna can't resist pointing out Clue.
• Snerk, "I'm Inspector Blahblah Smith, commonly known as the Doctor, Donna here is the plucky assistant who helps me out." And she looks like, "Wait, what?!"
• The Doctor is just dying to take over one of Agatha's cases. Why didn't you go by Inspector Hercules while you're at it? Or Oliver?
• "She's not Jessica Fletcher, after all."
• "Well...actually he like, did..."
• Ah, I guess Donna had to try.
• Seriously, they SO replay the same episode every time.
• She's even "We are Not Amused" a la Queen Victoria.
• Please don't deliver syrupy annoying lines like that, vicar.
• Totally alone, checking out a dude. Hubba hubba. I'm not at all suspicious saying this.
• "I was sitting on the loo, playing with my gun..."
• Colonel was off reminiscing about bloomers. Class-ay.
• I'm amused at them pacing back and forth. And "The Secret Adversary." And the little grey cells. I'm such a Christie nut.
• SNERK, The Doctor wanders around with a bow and arrows in Belgium. Yes, everyone's gotta have a flashback.
• Oh, Miss Noble usually does find something.
• Or maybe not.
• You're not Scotland Yard, Also, "pip pip" is just annoying.
• "Buttle off?"
• UH-OH.
• Well, yes, Donna, they still would have bees. HINT HINT BEES ARE THE NEW ARC WORD.
• HOLY SHIT GIANT FUCKING BUG WITH A LEAD PIPE. And Donna with a magnifying glass.
• And a really frightening stinger.
• Giant bugs can grow another stinger? Doesn't that normally kill the stingy ones to lose it? Not that I took entomology or anything.
• SPLAT and ew.
• What, she didn't ask why they didn't ask Evans?
• They don't do it with mirrors this time, babe.
• Watch it flash that stinger.
• Y'know, I love the Christie and all, but why on earth did someone think "Hey, Agatha Christie and a giant bug?" Oh well, I guess it's the same logic as "Hey, Queen Victoria and werewolves!"
• APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH!
• Someone knows his kid won't be providing an heir.
• WWPD? Someone make some bracelets.
• "Who, me?"
• "Blimey, I've done it again."
• "Well, mine was with a giant spider...Really, you should have seen this chick."
• How is a wasp acting like it's in an Agatha Christie novel? 'Cause I've read plenty and uh...I just don't put THAT together."
• Donna, don't do that. Again.
• Wait, what?
• Bwah, Sparkling Cyanide. Or Remembered Death, if you will.
• And then the Doctor somehow manages to dose himself during a terrible game of charades.
• This is worse than "Baby Fishmouth"
• Hell-o, what was THAT, Donna? Yeah, that would shock everyone. Also gives an excuse for a liplock.
• Yes, indeed, he is, Agatha.
• Snerk. Bug-free soup, anyone?
• No, "the butler did it" is a Wodehouse title.
• So much for the heir.
• Miss Marple subtle shoutout here? Just wondering. Did anyone in St. Mary Mead do anything reminiscent of this?
• Crooked House!
• So, where did her invitation come from? No psychic paper for her?
• Snerk, Donna. I thought that too earlier.
• THE UNICORN! Dum dum dum....
• What a showoff.
• HE CAN WALK! So cheesy. So soap opera. I can't stop snickering.
• Bwah. "I had no idea."
• What a stereotype with all this English stuff.
• So...she got malaria, gave birth to a wasp? Wait, WHAT?!?!
• "I loved him so much I didn't CARE he was a giant fucking bug." I think most of us would be hard pressed to manage that one.
• I like watching the vicar wince during this.
• "What? Who did I kill?"
• The Moving Finger....yeah, not really, that was just an excuse to lip that in.
• Ackroyd! [redacted for spoilers]] would be the killer if we went there with that one.
• OMG MY SON IS A VICAR AND A GIANT EFFING BUG! And a killer! So much for a man of the cloth.
• This transformation scene is so cheesy.
• "Yeah, inheritance of being a giant fucking bug. I'd rather have some money and a title."
• Oh, that's freaky. "You think that's how the world is."
• Oh, now I'm doing it.
• Maybe y'all don't want to piss the bug guy off. You wouldn't like him when he's angry.
• And the cheesy starts again. Though I admire Agatha's battle cry. And here comes the car...
• Lady, it's not your fault some idiot half-alien read your books and decided to become a copycat killer. Plus he grew up in the regular world for 40 years, that's no excuse.
• What do you think she's doing, numbnuts? Suicide via car + pool.
• You go, Donna. Always with the pragmatism.
• That's the Egyptian novel.
• The Doctor bungles a title.
• Uh-oh.
• Damn, I was hoping the 10-day visit would be because Agatha got to be a Companion for awhile. That would have been cooler. And they still don't explain why she checked in as her husband's mistress. Does that mean the Doctor's just kind of a sicko to do that for her? Weak explanation for the 10 days, I think.
• Nice gold shoes, Donna.
• Who wants some Carrionites?
• Ah, I forgot Death in the Air, but that was a blowpipe rather than a wasp.
• Bwah, THE YEAR FIVE BILLION AND PEOPLE ARE STILL READING THEM. THAT'S SO AWESOME. My inner Christie geek really enjoyed this, even despite the stoopid bug plot.

Note about the deleted old Agatha scene: I'm amused at the "Man in the Brown Suit" and "Harlequin" references, but good god, that is SO EFFING BADLY DONE otherwise. So glad it was cut.

No news/anything since last time. Again, I'm holding off on drawing anything new until some things cross themselves off the list.

Two slightly odd things happened, but I don't think either counts:
(a) I had a dream where some criminal actually deliberately flashed a playing card at me.
(b) Reading this and thinking, "Dude, I thought that sort of thing would happen to me."

Edited to add #3:

(c) Does "blue feather" count if I saw two blue jays, but none of them were shedding?