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Xmas &c.
I do not think that 'loot' or 'swag' or whatever is a very accurate term considering that all of my presents combined would fit into a small shoebox, but WHATEVER, I love them all, and that is what matters.
- Dad's old mobile phone, because mine is dying (parents)
- Josh Groban's new album 'Awake' (sister)
- Blackpool on DVD (brother)
- box of chocolates (grandfather)
- Betrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy (aunt)
...yeah, my family doesn't really believe in presents once you pass the age of about thirteen. I DO have a lot of relatives, believe it or not. They're just not the gather-in-the-same-place-and-be-seasonal type.
Oh, and today I am working 2:45-9:45 so I SLEPT IN (oh, love. love. joy. bliss. etc.) and then finally watched 'Out of Time'. I can't watch 'The Runaway Bride' or 'Combat' (OWEN EPISODE! EPISODE! ABOUT! OWEN! OMG!) for a week or so, but this episode was so fantastic that I think I'll just rewatch it for a while and be perfectly content.
(Warning: I use too many exclamation marks below)
I really, really like how my love for Gwen/Owen in no way diminished my love for Gwen/Rhys and Owen/Diane (female pilot! whoo! you know me: I love female pilots). A few things that really impressed me:
- Jack. Jack's emo in this was both believable and wrenching, and I just wanted to write a lot of absurdly fluffy AU fic in which he and Nine and Rose have sparkly adventures in time and space FOREVER, because he is so shattered.
- Owen and Diane! Dancing! Flying! Not!fuckbuddies! Owen's emotional depth scaring the shit out of him! I am going to have to think about this one for a long, long time, and work out how it slots into his psyche. Because it DOES, but there's something missing: maybe backstory. Anyway. I loved the single moment in which you saw him accept that she was leaving, and his mouth twisted, and then he was himself again.
- Diane should be a Companion. I'm just sayin'. She would be AWESOME at it, though I don't know if she and Ten would get on at all. Diane/Eleven! Yes! Totally! OTP!
- Emma! She was such a fabulous foil for Gwen, and she liked musicals, and her reactions to things really made you think. Similarly, I loved what this episode showed us about Gwen and her flaws, and about Rhys.
- That entire shopping montage. OH IANTO. That could have been a very obvious and cheesy sequence and they chose to concentrate on some really interesting things.
- In general, the transition from the newcomers being confused and lost and uncertain to their complete decisiveness as to their three separate paths. Conversely, the fact that the Torchwood team started off all 'oh, wonderful, time fugitives that we must look after' and then ended up trying desperately to make them all stay.
- Yep. Awesome. SO much more engaging than 'Random Shoes', which I have not commented on because I am entirely 'meh' about the whole thing. This show's focus on the idea of death and what comes after and when death is a good thing and how people view it is...yes, occasionally morbid and creepifying, but I LOVE it. Doctor Who is about life. Always, ultimately, about life. Everybody lives. This show took a little while to find its feet, but now it's a firm and confronting contrast to that message.
Finally: I have a Yuletide rec list coming once I've read the few remaining fics I have bookmarked.
- Dad's old mobile phone, because mine is dying (parents)
- Josh Groban's new album 'Awake' (sister)
- Blackpool on DVD (brother)
- box of chocolates (grandfather)
- Betrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy (aunt)
...yeah, my family doesn't really believe in presents once you pass the age of about thirteen. I DO have a lot of relatives, believe it or not. They're just not the gather-in-the-same-place-and-be-seasonal type.
Oh, and today I am working 2:45-9:45 so I SLEPT IN (oh, love. love. joy. bliss. etc.) and then finally watched 'Out of Time'. I can't watch 'The Runaway Bride' or 'Combat' (OWEN EPISODE! EPISODE! ABOUT! OWEN! OMG!) for a week or so, but this episode was so fantastic that I think I'll just rewatch it for a while and be perfectly content.
(Warning: I use too many exclamation marks below)
I really, really like how my love for Gwen/Owen in no way diminished my love for Gwen/Rhys and Owen/Diane (female pilot! whoo! you know me: I love female pilots). A few things that really impressed me:
- Jack. Jack's emo in this was both believable and wrenching, and I just wanted to write a lot of absurdly fluffy AU fic in which he and Nine and Rose have sparkly adventures in time and space FOREVER, because he is so shattered.
- Owen and Diane! Dancing! Flying! Not!fuckbuddies! Owen's emotional depth scaring the shit out of him! I am going to have to think about this one for a long, long time, and work out how it slots into his psyche. Because it DOES, but there's something missing: maybe backstory. Anyway. I loved the single moment in which you saw him accept that she was leaving, and his mouth twisted, and then he was himself again.
- Diane should be a Companion. I'm just sayin'. She would be AWESOME at it, though I don't know if she and Ten would get on at all. Diane/Eleven! Yes! Totally! OTP!
- Emma! She was such a fabulous foil for Gwen, and she liked musicals, and her reactions to things really made you think. Similarly, I loved what this episode showed us about Gwen and her flaws, and about Rhys.
- That entire shopping montage. OH IANTO. That could have been a very obvious and cheesy sequence and they chose to concentrate on some really interesting things.
- In general, the transition from the newcomers being confused and lost and uncertain to their complete decisiveness as to their three separate paths. Conversely, the fact that the Torchwood team started off all 'oh, wonderful, time fugitives that we must look after' and then ended up trying desperately to make them all stay.
- Yep. Awesome. SO much more engaging than 'Random Shoes', which I have not commented on because I am entirely 'meh' about the whole thing. This show's focus on the idea of death and what comes after and when death is a good thing and how people view it is...yes, occasionally morbid and creepifying, but I LOVE it. Doctor Who is about life. Always, ultimately, about life. Everybody lives. This show took a little while to find its feet, but now it's a firm and confronting contrast to that message.
Finally: I have a Yuletide rec list coming once I've read the few remaining fics I have bookmarked.