Well, I imagine Sci-Fi will re-run it a million times, so I'm sure you cna catch it at your leisure. But on the whole, yeah. It's a good episode. Not the best, and Donna Noble's pretty annoying at first, but the latter half of it is definitely worth seeing. Plus, Tardis in a car chase!

Matt, I quite enjoyed the Christmas Special myself, but more importantly, just like the previous Christmas Special, it's part of the regular continuity, so it's worth watching. (It's not actually ninety minutes; it's only an hour.) I won't tell you why you really need to watch it, of course, but suffice it to say that it becomes relevant in the future.

Yes, the Tardi-car chase was excellent.

And the continuity from the previous Christmas special - very nice.

Last night, I watched the Stargate Finales. SG-1 was fine. I love Rodney.

Today, I watched Smith & Jones. I am bouncy happy can't work maybe will go buy Vampire People for my mom bigger on the inside omg smiley! LOVE!

I totally called the space vampire thing before they told us. Yeah. And t flails again

I have my Eureka DVDs! Yay. I'm going to watch something from it right now.

I found an episode of Life on Mars on one of the Canadian cable channels this evening. I didn't even know they were airing it, nor do I know how far along in the series it was. But I'm excited to see it.

(Thanks to Wikipedia, it seems to episode one of series two.)

Is the Christmas ep enjoyable/important enough to ahem and stay 90 minutes after work to watch, or should I just go on with the season from the point I joined at?

Matt, given some information that's been released about next season, you should probably watch it. However, it's not necessary to watch it in sequence, I don't think.

Got to the two new Who episodes tonight (yes, I like a good rhyme). Found Donna annoying at first, but by the end of the episode, I really liked her. Also, for an Xmas episode, Ten was mighty Old Testament in his resolving of the situation. I loved that Donna called him on it to. If the Doctor should know anything, it's that being the last of your species makes you do the wacky (and I suspect, given DALEK and "This time everybody lives!", that Nine would have found a way of convincing the queen before offing her kids).

As far as the actual season premiere, count me in on the Martha fan club, because she effin ROCKS! Much as I ended up loving Rose, for a bit I was "well, let's see how she develops". With Martha, I just hope they don't screw with her character's massive enthusiasm for experiences too much. Very endearing (plus she's a hottie).

Is the Christmas ep enjoyable/important enough to ahem and stay 90 minutes after work to watch, or should I just go on with the season from the point I joined at?

Well, I don't view it as a special per se--it's not like it's all "The Doctor experiences the true meaning of Christmas and then does the snoopy dance" (though for the record, I would totally watch it, and would probably put it up on youtube). It's more a bridge ep between the series, and is part of the canon of the continuity. *shrug* I think it's worth watching.

it's that being the last of your species makes you do the wacky

Truer words.

Hey, regarding the "Made in Eureka" ads--the dvd for the first two episodes of the second season was sent in promotional packaging of a "Made in Eureka" catalog--all the different things that come out of Eureka in one convenient form. It was highly entertaining.

Also, Who 313:

I though that when the Master changed the Doctor into Dobby the Elf it wasn't necessarily trepidation on his face--it was fear. He mentions at some point having seen and done all the depravities of the universe, but this is probably a first for him--he's seeing what he would look like, too, if it wasn't for regeneration. Pretty f'n scary, I think.

Also, man, the Doctor just can't cut a break. The other last living timelord would rather die than spend eternity with him. That's gotta hurt. The determination in Ten's eyes when he decided he was going to care for the Master had, I think, a faint glimmer of "finally" behind it. Like he had been secretly hoping for this the entire time and finally got it. Thus making the moment when the Master kicks it both heartrending, and super-slashy. Whoa, nelly on the gay of that particular scene.

And then about the Face of Boe. I don't know how I feel about that! I mean, okay, he does finally kick it, but how does his face get that big? How is he just a face? And also, this makes that picture of me hugging the Face of Boe take on an entirely new meaning. Now I'm going to wonder if its big ol' eyes were actually staring at my ass.

Finally, aw, Kylie! that will be entertaining. But do we have word on whether Freema will be returning? or is it New Companion Time all over again? I kind of thought we might check in a few years down the road, and Martha would be with Cutie Paediatric Doctor or somethhing.

Augh, SIX MONTHS.