It is a good thing...

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...that I'm not in the habit of attending fancy Christmas and/or year-end parties where people might be expected to turn up wearing pretty, revealing, relatively open dresses... as it's been a week since I had ECG done and I'm still left with rather noticeable circular bruises all around my upper body from that. *rolls eyes*

At least I'm back to being reasonably okay health-wise, stuffy nose notwithstanding. Woo!

And I actually relatively enjoyed The Runaway Bride. At last a companion that knew how this particular version of the Doctor should be handled. I so enjoy brutality when it's directed towards Ten, especially if it's not coming from enemies... :-D

And I'm done with re-reading Harry Potter... hmpf. Now the wait for book seven starts properly... in the meantime, I can try to come up with more wonderful theories as to why Snape just cannot be evil. It was really fascinating to try and pick up clues from all the earlier books now, reading them back to back.

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At least I'm back to being reasonably okay health-wise, stuffy nose notwithstanding. Woo!


A big yay for that - about time too :-)

I quite enjoyed The Runaway Bride. The story itself was a bit meh I thought, but the character stuff was great (a laughed a lot), and there was punching in the face - he was so asking for it :-P

I thought the remembering-Rose bits were nicely done - not too many moments to bog the story down (it being a Christmas Special and all), but they didn't just ignore the fact that she had just left, and I liked that. I must say that I think those moments (and the banter with Donna) were very well played by David Tennant - I'm hoping for more along this line and less shouty!Doctor (unless it is followed by punching :-P). My thought that losing Rose might give Ten a bit more of an edge in the way that the TIme War gave Nine a bit of darkness, if you know what I mean.

But anyway, I quite enjoyed the episode on the whole, and am looking forward to the next series.

I've been catching up on Torchwood btw - and I find the episodes after 6 quite a lot better. I was surprised that I actually quite liked the seventh epsidoes (though I felt the whole lesbian thread a bit forched - not that I mind in in principle, it just, I don't know, quite gel for me. They Keep Killing Suzie I really liked quite a lot - quite creepy, and not in just a silly adolescent way. And I also liked Out of Time - I enjoyed the fact that they took to the time to explore the characters.

If I pretend the Chibnal episodes don't exist, then the series isn't half bad - and I'm looking forward to seeing the next episodes.

And I'm done with re-reading Harry Potter... hmpf.

Uh oh. I know what that feels like *sigh*. And yeah, reading the books back to back is interesting. Did you notice the locket that Harry and the others come across at Sirius' house in Book Five ;-)

And Snape is not evil. (Or so I think today - I can't seem to make my mind up on that.)

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(unless it is followed by punching :-P)

I'm hoping there will be lots and lots of punching in Series 3. And slapping. And smacking. And kicking. And some more punching. *smiles angelically*

I've been catching up on Torchwood btw - and I find the episodes after 6 quite a lot better.

Yes, same here (although I haven't managed to bring myself to watching 11 yet)... although while I've rather enjoyed some of them, Out of Time in particular (in spite of the multitude of clichés), the whole thing just... fails to thrill me. Maybe they'll get better the next season, and I think I'll keep watching, as long as it stays semi-decent, but it really hasn't quite captured me.

Did you notice the locket that Harry and the others come across at Sirius' house in Book Five ;-)

Well... duh. ;-) And I'd totally forgotten about it when I originally read The Half-Blood Prince, as it had been a while since I'd read the previous book and I'd not remembered the locket at all. I assume that Kreacher spared it from being thrown out and they'll get to it at some point.

And Snape is not evil.

Nope. Absolutely not. He's just had a hard life. ;-) I do seriously believe he's on the good side though, and not just because I've been getting into a troubling "mmmm, Severus" phase lately (even after reading the books again, yes, and trying to think only of canon Snape, so I realise I'm a little odd), but all evidence seems to point to that... mostly his reluctance to harm Harry even after killing Dumbledore, and of course I cannot believe Dumbledore (who was gravely ill/possibly dying soon anyway) would ever have pleaded Snape to spare his life, so the "please" must have been begging Snape to do what he had to do.

Of course, The Deathly Hallows will probably turn that theory upside down and prove that Snape's quite irredeemably evil, vicious, and probably Voldemort's secret son or some other horrid thing in addition. ;-)