And the emo BSG next ep promo.

that song is going to kill me.

End tonight already!

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I know! I love the promos. . . hate the song. Clearly, they need to contract the guy who does the music editing for SPN to help them out with their promos.

Lis Sladen reminds me vaguely of Mary McDonnell. Which is a compliment in my book.

I said the same thing about her reminding me of MM when that Who ep aired! And, yeah, definitely a compliment.

I want to be Mary McDonnell when I grow up.

I'm Cindy.

BSG promo again - is this all old footage? I want to think that the stuff at the end is new and it's Athena picking up Hera with Caprica and Boomer standing just to the side in front.

I watched the Torchwood finale -- Jack stole all my flail away from Dean and Sam.

Specific thoughts this made up for all the crappy episodes. Although I think some of the crappiness would have been alleviated if they had just taken their time and introduced some characters and then in a later episode killed them off. I wish they'd given the time travellers more time than they did because buying Owen being in love with her just was hard. Also buying Jack's grief over what's her name in the fairy episode. I like Gwen, I didn't particularly like her drugging her boyfriend to admit that she'd been unfaithful and beg forgiveness, but I don't think that was supposed to be a likable moment. Hopefully we were supposed to be a bit replused by what she was doing.

The actress did a fantastic job with Gwen's grief, it was really raw and I did buy. Also I liked Gwen and her boyfriend at the beginning of the episode being coupley and silly.

And like I said Jack came in and stole all the flail from Sam and Dean in Episode 12 with him and the Real Capitan Jack. Actually I wanted to hug the real Jack and feed him soup because he was so...brittle in a way....he looked like he was about to shatter into a million pieces and I wanted to shove those to into a locked room so they could have a bit of passion. And when Real Capitan went over and took Our Jack's hand and they danced it was just.. guh! And that kiss. I'm wondering are we supposed to take away that Our Jack was a bit in love with Real Jack because of his heroic actions? Maybe he read about Real Jack and sort of fell for what he read?

I know some people had problems with Jack being raised up again and then forgiving Owen. Christ like stuff. I didn't have a problem with the forgiving of Owen and Owen breaking down. It was his fault after all and he'd been through so much emotionally and was still reeling over Diane (although honestly I don't understand, but if I can buy Real Jack falling for Our Jack then I guess I shouldn't have a problem with Owen and Diane -- or is it Diana?). I feel bad for Ianto, even though he had his girlfriend he has feelings for Jack and Jack just ran off as soon as he heard the TARDIS.

Oh for chrissakes, I can't go to bed with this numberslut waiting to trigger...

Did Doctor Who always have Christmas episodes? Or did that start with the Christmas Invasion? (I just watched this year's Christmas episode thanks to a friend of a friend.) It was fun.

Did Doctor Who always have Christmas episodes?

Nope, just since they revived the series. But the old seasons were differently constructed anyway (different episode length, more continuous storylines, etc.).

It is funny though, because a lot of people said this year that it feels as if the Christmas episode has been around a lot longer than only since 2005.

Sumi, bizarrely, the very first Christmas-aired episode of Doctor Who (with the first Doctor), the Doctor broke the fourth wall and turned to the audience and wished them a Merry Christmas.