Ahh, how delightful it is to see you drop by for a quick burst of my wisdom; Greenfield style!
I shan’t bore you with my usual techno-rambling, you’ve had some six months of that (which you clearly enjoy or else you wouldn’t be so eager to return), plus nothing has happened in tech news, i haven’t finished any books and, while Christmas would be an interesting time to talk about my atheist views (a Christian friend of mine had the front to bid me a “Happy Friday” to avoid offending me, which is an immeausurably stupid comment, I’m glad he’s not indicative of Christians), there’s nothing to say (in any of my usual areas of discussion) that I can think of any articulate points about. I will however talk about a topic that I seem to discuss increasingly less on this blog, for some reason; Doctor Who.
Virginia Woolf was right; semicolons can be addictive – let alone using them in programming.
This is relatively unspoilerish, given I haven’t seen it myself, but I will probably mention plot developements that people who have seen the trailer will already know.
Anyway, tomorrow sees the annual Doctor Who special take a new turn as it is technically only about 40% of the christmas special, with a concluding 75 minute episode on New Years Day. Though I have seen the trailers, I avoid the clips and previews to get the utmost enjoyment of the new material and (from what I have seen) I actually don’t have huge expectations for this episode.
The reason is simple, firstly it’s a two-parter and the first always tends to be a painfully slow setup with no development to the main plot until the end, simply for the sake of a minor cliffhanger. While this is good in cases as it means that the subsequent episode is usually as action-packed and rapid-paced as a horny cheetah, this is usually only to take away the bitter taste from Part One.
Secondly, all the trailers I’ve seen show The Doctor hanging around with golden oldies (Bernard Cribbins I can handle but randy June Whitfield – no thanks) in cafés with an air of Coronation Street meets Last of the Summer Wine tedium. However, I think the format of the episode is going to be two coinciding narratives following The Doctor and The Master with them meeting at the end. This inevitably means that The Doctor’s story, if it consists the youth and energy of mulled-wine bingo, will pale into banal insignificance next to the escapades of The Master, equally as enigmatic but not moving at the pace of a zimmer-frame like the Doc.
I’m not going to mention the other plot details that I think will happen tomorrow, mainly because I hate it when plots gets spoiled for me, I’m hardly going to give so much as a potential plot – hopefully you already knew about The Master returning, if not, I did warn you – for fear of being right.
In any case, I’ll review the episode sometime after christmas, I know I forgot to with Waters of Mars but in all honesty that wasn’t really a particularly amazing episode, it definetely wasn’t as scary as had been advertised and felt a bit bland to me. The ending was good I admit, and in a way it could’ve been the setup for this two-parter that will save the boredom for tomorrow, but as Doctor Who fans often see, time will tell.
I’ll leave it there, the seven or so minutes that you’ve spent reading this is more than enough of your Christmas that I’ve taken.
Remember to eat too much, drink responsibly (hypocrite megaphones at the ready) and enjoy the break.
I love Christmas!