WARNING: SPOILERY "END OF TIME" TALK, SQUEE, SPECULATION, AND EXCESSIVE USE OF EXCLAMATION MARKS AHEAD!!!

Because seriously? Unexpected!Naked!Master and Collared!Master all the in same trailer?! I think the Beeb have read my Christmas wish list this year! Not to mention Bondage!Master in another preview clip! *Head asplodes* The Master finally has a goatee again (yay!) and can shoot lightning from his fingers! It will be really interesting to see if it is the Master who kills Ten. Some people seem to think he will be saving the Doctor from the other big bad in the episode.

The Doctor in serious Oncoming Storm mode whilst confronting the Master as the Master attempts to zap him with his lightning fingers. Also, what about that huge Seal of Rassilon behind the Master's head in that one scene? (I may have missed seeing it the first time because I was too busy joygasaming from the aforementioned Collared!Master.) Which only adds even more to the "Time Lords are returning" speculations.

I cannot express how much I am looking forward to this! I haven't been this exitced and anxious for Christmas to arrive since I was about 8. Can it be Christmas time now please? I just REALLY hope RTD isn't going to fuck it up somehow. I have rather little faith in looking forward to anything written by him too much since the whole "Children of Earth" monstrosity. But it's hard not to get excited when the trailers look so amazing. At least this time I know my favourite character is going to die, so that wont come as a nasty surprise!

Even still, though, this looks great, and at the very least should spawn some new Doctor/Master fics. Which is always a bonus :D

Stay Beautiful,

Aissa.

As I suspected, it was rather pointless having the first 45 minutes of Waters of Mars at all. A rather predictable plot that has now been completely over shadowed by the Doctor's behaviour in the last 15 minutes. Which is all anyone is talking about now, and is the main thing that interests me about the episode. The thing that both love and hate about the episode.

After having watching the episode for a second time, I am in kind of ambivalent with how the Doctor behaved. It was actually so unexpected and unpredictable, unlike the first 45 mintues. We all knew the Doctor would go back and save Adelaide's team (or what was left of it), despite the whole fixed point deal. But how he did it was just totally shocking, and certainly not something I was expecting, despite having glimpses of this side of the Doctor before. Which I do give kudos to the episode for.

I had read spoilery stuff about a fortnight before this aired about how the Doctor was going to be saying and doing some rather OOC stuff. Which I assumed to mean about him telling Adelaide that she was going to die and he can't/wont help them, ect. Which in reality is not OOC for the Doctor to do that when he has to. Then I thought they had meant him changing his mind, which was just too predictable... Then came what they really meant!

I have never really been keen on the idea of "evil" (for lack of a better word) Doctor. As a huge Doctor/Master shipper I have seen a fair few fics that involve the Doctor going evil like the Master, one way or another, and joining up with him. But always skipped them because I never really liked the idea. It tends to spoil the whole thing I like about the Doctor/Master dynamic.

I understand now that Adelaide's suicide wasn't just about preserving the time lines, but also as a way to giving the finger to the Doctor. The Doctor who was saying he could do anything he wanted, and there was no-one to stop him. It was her way of saying "well you can't stop me from dying." Adelaide was indeed a brilliant character.

Now, a lot of people are speculating about how Ten will regenerate. After that episode a lot of speculation has suddenly turned to the possibility of the Time Lords coming back (through the purposeful actions of the new "I can do anything" Doctor?) and punishing him by forcing a regeneration, as was done to Two in The War Games.

Speculation has been around for over a year now that when RTD leave the writer's desk that his last episode would entail the resurrection of the Time Lords. Some people have also speculated that 10.5 might turn into the Valeyard (although I am less inclined to believe that bit).

So, will we be seeing scary, arrogant Ten forced to regenerate in the last episode? I'm not sure. But I am both excited and nervous to find out.

Well far be it for me to be lazy... but I am, so I'll start by copying and pasting my immediate response post on the review thread on the Doctor Who group:

( SPOILERS ahead... No shit, Sherlock! But also for Torchwood and the forthcoming Doctor Who episode )

ETA: Also, on a less spoilery and more pedantic point of annoyance; What was up with the very deep red they showed Mars being? Anyone who has taken 2 seconds to Google images of Mars - both the planet and the surface of it - can see that it's nowhere near that red. At best it's a dull redish-brown colour. I've never been a fan of the CGI planets on Doctor Who, but that Mars especially bugged me.

Stay Beautiful,

Aissa.

DAVID TENNANT TO BE ON NEVER MIND THE BUZZCOCKS AT CHRISTMAS!!!

This as well as QI!!! Along with his final Doctor Who episodes. I am worried I may not be able to make it through Christmas before dying of a Tennant related heart attack.

As if that wasn't enough, Catherine Tate and Bernard Cribbins will also be on that episode on Buzzcocks.

This is just so brilliant there aren't words enough to describe it's brilliance! So I'll just go with: BRILLIANT!

Stay Beautiful,

Aissa.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!

Hope you have/had (depending on your time zones) a good one.

Stay Beautiful,

Aissa.

So, we finally for to the Doctor episode of the Sarah Jane Smith Adventures. Not that I don't like the non-Doctory ones mind you. It's just been SO LONG since we last had anything with the Doctor this was great to keep us going until the next Doctor Who special next month.

I decided to keep my review until I'd see both parts, rather than give 2 separate reviews. So be warned there be spoilers for parts 1 and 2 below the cut... I really need a Sarah Jane icon on here!

( SPOILAHS!!! )

So this has totally psyched me up for the forthcoming episodes of Doctor Who. The one in Novemeber, and the two in December *sniff* which I'll be sobbing into my Christmas dinner while watching when my Doctor dies! D:

Stay Beautiful,

Aissa.

Oh...my...word!

My internet has been down today, and I come back to find this:

http://community.livejournal.com/fregg_love/134114.html#cutid1

I think I just hurt myself laughing so much. This is why Simon, Nick and Edgar are made of complete and utter 100% win!

@simonpegg: Please don't mistake my faint arousal for discomfort. - LMAO.

Stay Beautiful,

Aissa.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/15378/tennant-pegg-landis-team-for-burke-

Well... I do hate to sound like a complete squeeing fangirl, but I am so that's how I come across. So excuse me for a moment:

DAVID TENNANT AND SIMON PEGG STARRING IN A MOVIE TOGETHER!!! OH MY MOTHER FUCKING GAWD! SOMEONE PINCH ME I THINK I MUST BE DREAMING!!!

Right. I think I am finished. Thank you.

Two actors I totally love in the same movie :D Also it's headed by director John Landis of "An American Werewolf in London" fame, a film I have loved ever since I was saw it when I was a kid.

OK, so lets add this up:
David tennant (who plays my favourite incarnation of my favourite character from my favourite TV series ever) + Simon Pegg (one of my favourite comedians who also stars in my favourite movie ever) + John Landis (director of one of my favourite horror films ever) = FUCKING SCORE!

Stay Beautiful,

Aissa.

So, my cat Cerys was behaving rather funny a couple of days ago, and then he went missing. I was of course worried sick (getting a horrible déjà vu feeling from when my cat Giles went missing and it turned out he had been killed on the road). Anyway, a couple of days later he turned up again, safe and unhurt but still not himself at all, very quiet and sedate and walking stiffly, sleeping all the time and not eating.

So it was a trip to the vet, and apparently he has a very hight fever, which he has had a couple of injections for. Now he's not allowed outside until it's passeed (he's due for a checkup vet trip on Tuesday) and he has to be segregated from the other cats incase it's cat flu or something else contagious. He needs peace and quiet, rest, and someone to keep an eye on him.

So... yup, he's in my room, which I have to keep pretty dark and quiet for him. I am knackered *yawns* I must have woken up half-a-dozen times during my five hours sleep last night to make sure he was all right. Not to mention the 2 previous nights that I hardly got any sleep due to worry while he was missing.

Right now I could just... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Stay Beautiful,

Aissa.

It's too damn cloudy to see a single meteor from The annual Perseid meteor shower. It's too cloudy to even see a single star, or even the moon, much less a meteor! Ah well, maybe next year.

Stay Beautiful,

Aissa.

Phew, I know that Torchwood is now airing on TV in America, so hopefully by the end of the week I wont have to keep putting cuts up for spoilers for it since most people will have seen it!

( More spoilery Torchwood: Children Of Earth talk )

Stay Beautiful,

Aissa.

I just wanted to take this moment to pimp a new Ianto LJ community (which contains spoilers for Children of Earth, so beware!) I will put the info under a cut.

( Info here )

Stay Beautiful,

Aissa.

Obviously there will be spoilers for all 5 days so it's below a cut. Although I doubt anyone will read it anyway as it's so long. I guess I just wanted to write it as a document of my thoughts and to get things off my chest.

( Long spoilery review/rant below the cut - TL;DR! )

...Well, that didn't end up very subjective at all did it? Lol. It just ended up pretty much as one big rant. I guess you cant hide feelings.

Stay Beautiful,

Aissa.

All I can say right now...

( Epic Torchwod Children of Earth spoilers )

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Aissa.

Ok, so I know I said I was going to leave any comments and reviews until the end, but I just could not let this pass without some flailing and comment. Those who have seen Torchwood will know what I'm about to go on about, but to save those that haven't...

( Epic spoilers and epic swearing below the cut )

Stay Beautiful,

Aissa.

*WARNING! - Here be spoilers, carry on reading at your own risk*

Well, I've not really written much about these because, to be prefectly frank, I was rather underwhelmed with the first two. Apart from the fact that Andy was more involved in the first episode, and found out more about Torchwood, and I'm always happy to see more Andy involvement in TW. They still weren't really anything to write home about (or write about in general!)

I only finally decided to make a post because today's episode, The Dead Line was brillaint. As a Janto fangirl the monologue that Ianto did while Jack was in a coma was fantastic, believing that Jack wouldn't hear him anyway. I didn't know whether to smile or cry, it was so well acted by Gareth. Ianto Revealing that he watched Jack as he slept, and wondering whether Jack dreamt about him, and whether he was "just a blip in time" to Jack.

Wondering how it'll feel to see himself grow older as Jack doesn't, and thinking that even if he did survive to grow old (b/c most TW employess die very early) Jack wouldn't stick around with him, he'd move on and run off again like he has before. It was very sad. Then Jack awoke at the end of the episode and revealed that he did hear everything Ianto said, and assured him that Ianto would never be "just a blip in time" to him. Yup, that did it, that made my lip wibble.

Plus, on another front, Rhys was more involved in this episode. Helped out Gwen with the investigation, and handled himself so well, which I liked. Like Andy, I always like to see more Rhys involvment in Torchwood. So that was good too. Yessie, today's episode was definitely the best of the three, by far. Now we have the 5-parter Childen of Earth too look forward to next week.

Stay Beautiful,

Aissa.

EDIT - absinthefairy88 made a transcript of Ianto's monologue:

“They say you’re supposed to talk to people when they’re in a coma, don’t they? I have absolutely no idea whether you can hear me Jack. I never heard of anyone coming out of one and carrying on the conversation. So I suspect it’s probably something the doctors tell us to do. To make us feel better, rather than help you. We don’t feel quite so useless and helpless. We get the feeling there’s still some sort of purpose in our lives. We’re not just waiting. Waiting for the science to work. Or the miracle to happen. Or the nightmare to end. I’m not much of a talker Jack, you know that, but I’ll talk to you now on the off chance that it helps.

Just promise me, if you’re hearing this, that when you come round - and you’re going to Jack. You’re gonna come out of this - just promise me you’ll bring up anything I say to you now. How’s that? We got a deal?

This must be the longest I’ve ever looked at you and not see you smile. I’ve watched you in your sleep, did you know that? So many times. Just woken up beside you in the middle of the night, and watched you. Watched your eyes move behind your eyelids as you dreamed. I tried to imagine what a man like you could possibly dream about. Things you’ve seen. The lives you’ve lived. The people you’ve loved. I wondered if you were dreaming about me, I hoped you’d be dreaming about me.

But let’s be honest Jack. I’m nothing more than a blip in time for you. Everyday I grow a little older. But you’re immortal. You’ve already lived a thousand lifetimes. How could you watch me grow old and die? How can I watch you live and never age a day? I suppose we both know that will never be a problem. Not in this job. No-one in Torchwood ever lives to draw their pension, do they? Even if, by some miracle, I survive to see my hair turn grey, or god forbid fall out, I don’t kid myself that you’d still be around to see it.

One day you’ll go again, just like you did before, and this time you won’t be back. Maybe that’s what you’re dreaming about those nights when I watch you sleeping. Maybe that’s why, even when you sleep, I see you smile. But you haven’t gone yet, Jack. I know that. I know you’re coming back to me.”

Yes, God forbid a month could pass without more Doctor Who spoilers, and consequenitally more over-excited fangirling from me. So, the newest spoilers *drumroll please*

CASTING AND PLOT SPOILERS IN THIS LINK, CLICK AT YOUR OWN RISK: http://io9.com/5291509/your-first-look-at-doctor-whos-next-big-guest-stars

( Spoiler talk under here )

Gah, I can't wait another few months! Where's a TARDIS when you need it? :P

Stay Beautiful,

Aissa.

So, Matt Smith's companion for the next series of Doctor Who has been announced, and with a publicity photo, although the character's name has yet to be announced.

( Rest of description and photo below the cut to save from spoilers )

Stay Beautiful,

Aissa.

So, I got the new Manics album "Journal for Plague Lovers" in the post today. I got the special 2-disc signed edition. It's fantastic, first disc is the album (obviously), and the second has all the demo versions of the songs. They also come in this awesome little hard back book type thing, which I think is a replica of the lyrics folder that Richey left behind, with lots of pictures, scribblings, and typed copies of the lyrics. I have listened to the album only one as yet, and am liking most of it so far. I will probably listen to it a couple more times tonight, and form a better opinion on the separate songs.

The lyrics are pretty hard to understand on a lot of the songs, so I'm glad to have the lyrics book! Also, Nicky sings the last song on the album "William's Last Words" which is quite a sad and haunting song, in the documentary it was described as being kind of like a suicide note. I also watched the short documentary on Channel 4 about the album, which had the band talking about the album, and the lyrics Richey left behind. I also for the NME which had a special feature on the Manics. It's a good week to be a Manics fan! :D

Also, in other news, which I would have been more much excited about on any other day, if it hadn't been eclipsed by my Manics excitement; I got "Underworld 3: Rise of the Lycans" on DVD in the post today. Something I have been looking forward to for nearly the last 3 years, since it was announced there would be a third Underworld movie. Lucian was always my favourite character from the first Underworld movie, so it's not suprising that this is now my favourite of the 3 movies, since this one is so Lucian-centric, and focuses on his story.

I'm glad tomorrow is Sunday, gives me a whole day to listen to the new Manics album some more, and probably re-watch "Underworld 3" again too :D

Stay Beautiful,

Aissa.

Ok, so this Doctor Who rumour has been around for a while now, I'd heard about it last month, and it has recently been repeated in a current newspaper (although I'm not gonna put too much faith in anything the Daily Mirror says!) It's nothing about any potential character returns or deaths (because there has been SO many of those rumours!) it's more Doctor related...

( Anyway, the rest is below for the potential spoilers if it does turn out to be true, and also because I do ramble on a bit here! )

Stay Beautiful,

Aissa.