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Naturally, I am downloading the Doctor Who Christmas Episode as we speak. This is the most exciting bit about our gentile holiday, even though I couldn't convince my mom to let us go get Chinese food. (She doesn't think they're open to sell me duck.)

So far I've been pretty disappointed by Yuletide. (Wait, I change my mind, look at all the Pern fic.)

Also, Merry Christmas: Disney quits Narnia. I'm actually kind of stunned since I didn't think Prince Caspian was a flop. (It wasn't very GOOD either, but being good and making money have never necessarily been the same thing.)

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

I was pretty creeped out a week ago to have this journal reported on in i09, as if I actually knew shit from shinola about the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas special. (This is why I stopped posting for a couple of days, but whatever. I mean, I labeled it 'speculation' and everything...)

Naturally, of course, the episode turned out to be more or less exactly what you could have predicted, and none of the crazy shit I thought was in it showed up.

That'll ... show i09's ... journalistic ...

... sigh.

( Except... )

Edit: Also, I'll be good and add this to the bottom instead of doing a new post like usual. I think this episode kind of proves my suspicion that a gap year for 'suspense' is bullshit, since all it did was make me gag for spoilers for longer than usual, and then be reminded that sometimes this show sucks hard.

It's easier to forgive shitty episodes of television... when there's a new one next week that might be better.

Thank fuck that gap year for 'suspense' thing is really production bullshit to cover the fact that Moffat and an entirely new crew couldn't possibly be ready for a fifth season turn around in three months.

This is why we don't like Christmas, dammit:

My dad got me a silver 't' necklace from Tiffany. This is actually a step up from usual, when he gets me cheap mexican silver.

I was all, 'aw... that's nice.' It's going back to Tiffany's tomorrow, though, because ... because, dammit, who the fuck knows me and gets me Tiffany's? Also because I never got around to pawning last year's jewelry and now I dunno where it went. Seriously. I was all, 'dammit, this should have gone to some daughter out there who would like this, like Elizabeth.'

I took one look at it and knew it was going back because even though it's probably the least annoying thing at Tiffany's he could have picked out, it's on the world's most thin silver chain. Breathing on it makes me afraid I'll break it.

My brother got a 50 dollar game card from Game Crazy, because I was there to help and convinced my dad not to buy a number of cheap shitty games, so my brother admits he got off better than I did.

Actual discussion:

My brother: (vaguely disappointed) I thought I was getting the Doctor Who Dalek Arc set.
Me: (uncomfortable) Well, I tried to point him that way, but ...
My brother: But at least I can pick out whatever. We can take the necklace back and get Daleks?
Me: True.

Later, my brother: You know what jewelry I would have helped him pick out and you woulda liked it?
Me: What?
My brother: A silver fobwatch with a T on it.
Me: OH YEAH, that would have been awesome. *sigh*