Well, hopefully the Great Pumpkin (assuming I'm not wildly mixing up festive occasions) will bring us all what we want tomorrow. Me, I want Moffat being like egregiously Moffat-y, but I suspect in the event he will tone it down a bit for crimbo.

I haven't watched The War Games in Colour yet, not for any particular reason. I may check it out in conjunction with the special tomorrow. That sounds like a plan, in fact.

EDIT: I meant to say, I am going to watch the no doubt very Gatiss-y A Ghost Story for Christmas on BBC Two tonight. That's become a bit of a Christmas Eve tradition for me over the last couple of years, even if they always go for exactly the same "twist" ending every time. :D Knowing the story this year's is based on quite well, I can already imagine exactly how the ending is going to be handled. Who knows, though, maybe I'll be wrong!

EDIT 2: I was wrong! A surprisingly restrained affair compared to past years. Very good, though.

Apart from that, I just want to extend the best wishes of the season to anyone who might be reading this, however you may or may not be celebrating. The world isn't a great place at the moment in lots of ways, it is fair to say, but I think you need to take whatever comfort and joy you can possibly get. All the best. <3

...a happy midwinter holiday of your choice, or just a very pleasant 25th of December to all of you at home! :)



And may "The Return of Doctor Mysterio" prove to be one of the good Who Xmas specials (although I'm sure they all have their fans and naysayers, it being Doctor Who and everything).

How the...flip did I not know that William Russell was in The Great Escape before seeing him dragged out of a tunnel by a German guard earlier today?!

Alas, the Luftwaffe dude did not exclaim "Hande hoch, Chesterfield!"

Pre-Who, too, as Wiki informs me the film was released in June 1963 - no wonder David McCallum looks about twelve!

In other news, Last Christmas was imho very good indeed - "Sweet Papa Crimbo!"

Or indeed whatever other occasion you may or may not be celebrating.

And I hope those of you on my flist who are caught up in the current weather problems here in the UK are all safe and well.



Ahh, Dalekmania!

All I'll say is that there was no way he was flying a Lancaster on operations around about Christmastime 1941 (or 1940, if the telegram was to be believed), considering they didn't enter operational service until March 1942.

I therefore suspect the whole thing was an illusion, part of some sort of elaborate Doctor-trap engineered by the Black Guardian and/or the Celestial Toymaker!

Or possibly not.

( Rambling Thoughts Follow. SPOILERS may abound! )

Over the course of this Christmas, I also watched the film The King's Speech. I found it to be something like Victory of the Daleks, without the good bits.

Yes, I know.

Or indeed a merry whatever other winter holiday(s) you and yours may be celebrating. I hope all of you have/have had/are having a good one. :)

I mean, come on, how could they completely disregard canon like that??!! The Blinovitch Limitation Effect is absolutely integral to what makes Doctor Who Doctor Who!!* How dare they...

Well no, actually, it was pretty good really. :D

( BAH HUMBUG - SPOILERY SPOILERS!!! )

 

* although, to be fair, Mawdryn Undead now makes even less sense than it did already... D: