Xmas Breakage

Okay, regular updates (read: one a day no matter how boring) was one of my new year's resolutions and I've already broken that for 13 days running. I'm a bad person.

For Christmas I got all the remaining Doctor Who Key to Time serials that I didn't already have, and I'm seriously considering dashing through them all at some point in the future and doing Who Reviews every day for a week. Long story short: the first two are good, the middle three are so-so, and the last one had a lot of potential but didn't really seem to fulfil most of it. Since I don't really know Graham Williams' television background, or Tony Read's, I can't say for sure if they should have known better, but it seems like they just told their writers "Hey, make sure you include the Key to Time thing. No, we're not going to tell you how it ends." (Though the Doctor abandoning his quest and going fishing in the first part of Androids of Tara, while probably blatant filler, somewhat oddly manages to foreshadow the season's end. Sort of. I'm reaching.)

After that I started watching my Star Trek Deep Space Nine DVDs, nerd that I am, and found the writing suprisingly clunky compared to Doctor Who and the entire output of Joss Whedon. DS9 was once upon a time my favorite show, and now it's barely staying in the top five list (I like it more than Dollhouse, which I really only watched because it had Whedon's name on it, and haven't seen an episode in a while, which is a shame because as I understand it's actually gotten rather good. Too late, of course, but still).

I also got the third volume of About Time: the Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who and laughed out loud when it referred to Nu Who as Billie the Dalek Slayer. Again, going back at watching DS9 helped serve as a reminder of how Buffyesque Nu Who is.

I made another attempt to learn Megadeth's "Holy Wars," which ended in another miserable failure. And that was pretty much what happened on vacation. Also, the movie's undergone a massive overhaul. More on that next time.