Stuff

[bagheera_san]

I eventually got over the cold-water shock that is watching Ashes To Ashes directly after Life on Mars and finished watching S1. The Eighties mostly suck. So does their fashion (there isn't a single episode where Alex doesn't dress like a hooker, although that might be a "theme"...), but the music occasionally doesn't suck. Alex isn't Sam (is it just me, or do we all tend to react slightly different to "crazy" women than to "crazy" men? Like, is mental illness more accepted with male characters?) but the Guv is still the Guv and I do love Gene+romance. Also, Ray and Chris really get to shine in this series and I love them. Shaz is okay, but: die, Evan, die. If you consider Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes to be part of the same continuity, then the only viable conclusion is sort of... that there is no reality.

I'm also in the middle of watching Invasion of the Dinosaurs which is one of the most awesome Three serials there is, surely? I love it, and I'm starting to like Sarah-Jane.

On the audio front I'm still working my way through Eight. Lucie is either even worse than Charley, or going to end up having a *very* similar character arc to Donna. The two serials that stuck out, though, were Charley stories: The Chimes of Midnight, which nearly made me cry and was the scariest audio I've ever listened to, and Living Legends which is marvellously funny (and gave me a disturbing desire for Charley as Time Lady domina. I think Eight might have had the same desire.)