Leverage! And also lots of Doctor Who.

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Leverage Christmas episode! ...I will try and make sure this is not entirely in capslock, but I am not making any promises.

• PARKER WANTS HARDISON TO HACK THE WEATHER. OF COURSE SHE DOES.


• ANTLERS. SHE IS WEARING ANTLERS. (And bashing Nate in the face with them, heeeeee.)


• "SANTA FAIL"


• Santa gave Nate a candy cane! WHERE IS YOUR CHRISTMAS SPIRIT, NATE?


• TREE OF THIEVERY. And Eliot's pained expressions!


• RESPECT THE SUIT.


• "You're just so... jolly." Nate, I have this feeling you are playing with fire.


• ♪ Zap the car with EMP ♪


• Sophie's chauffeur character is cracking me up so much. She's from Slough! Also she looks great in the suit.


• AHAHAHA, Cha0s's Eliot impression! "Damnit, Hardison."


• "She was a good van. ...We'll get you another." And Eliot's "you killed my friend's van." ♥


• "I left him a candy cane." Oh, Eliot and his very specific personal moral code. ♥


• "I'm sorry." / "Christmas Eve is a magical night."


• PRESENTS. "I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a samurai." And Parker gets money!


• Aw, Sophie and Nate exchanging presents!


• In conclusion: MY HEART.

And here are my (v. belated) notes from Logopolis and Castrovalva! (NB for some reason I only made notes at the end of Logopolis and for the first few episodes of Castrovalva.)

• I liked the earlier, slower episodes of this story the best - they had a great atmosphere and the dynamic between Four and Adric was lovely.


• Tegan's handbag matches her outfit! ♥


• Ahaha, Adric threw a bicycle at a policeman. The scallywag!


• "I suppose we're going to miss Romana." SADNESS.


• I love the moment when Tegan meets Nyssa and goes from D: to :D almost instantly.


• "Adric... I can't see Traken." D:


• The whole "alien intelligences, that's us." / "Won't they be pleased to see us?" bit was lovely.


• Look at Tegan go! I couldn't run that well in a skirt like that.


• The actual regeneration is a little anticlimactic, but I love Five's face as he sits up. ♥

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• "We're perfectly harmless, unfortunately."


• I love them all conspiring to nick the ambulance.


• Aw, Five being past Doctors. ♥


• "Me! I'M the trap!" SO MELODRAMATIC. :D


• I love the fact that the Master shows up solely to gloat.


• And now the TARDIS is throwing first aid at the Doctor! She just wants to help.


• Sideways TARDIS! I am always very tickled by this sort of thing.


• Poor Nyssa, stuck building the Zero box.


• I question Tegan's decision not to get changed. (I suspect Janet Fielding would concur.)


• Aw, Nyssa's face when she falls in the river.


• So celery = civilisation. Helpful fact to know!


• I love all this cod-Shakespearean dialogue. It doesn't always come off, but this time it is fab.


• DOUBLE HAT ACTION. YES.


• "I know so little about telebiogenesis." OH NYSSA. ♥

...and that is where I stopped taking notes.

Just finished watching "Earthshock". Yes, it made me cry. Oh, Adric, just when I liked you again! D: Not only did he die, fairly pointlessly, but also the Doctor grated his prized possession on a Rubbish Eighties Cyberman. THE INDIGNITY. I was only half watching for most of the story, because I've seen it before, but everytime the Cybermen appeared I got distracted by the Wrongness of them. I wonder what the story would be like if we could somehow replace them with another villain? Other than that, I don't really have much to say about this one, expect that I thought Tegan had some good stuff to do (and her face when she realises that it's too late to save Adric broke my heart a little), and I liked that there were more women than usual in the secondary cast. (Especially compared to the last EDA I read, which had ...one, possibly two. And lots of men.)