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Look, it's review time! This episode saw the first appearance of the Ice Warriors, and it was pretty fun. Plot-wise, I enjoyed the warriors, and I found the evolution of the planet the writers imagined pretty fascinating. Artificial foods to sort the problem of world famine, thus plants limited to a minimum, thus drop of carbon dioxide and the Earth's temperature drops, instead of increasing like it's currently doing—the glaciers take over instead of melting away. Given that this is 1967, it's fascinating to see them come up with something that is basically the contrary of what's happening now, and yet fits humanity so perfectly. The computer and humans being so very dependent on its instructions were also fascinating. I loved the characters of Penley and Clent, Clent is the kind you want to smack, so hard-headed, but his whole world revolves around order and that doesn't mean he's inhumane, he just… needs to cling to what he can control. Of course Penley is the opposite of that—the scientist, the creative mind—and would loathe such a character. It's great to see how their personalities clash around the ending, but when push comes to shove, the choice does go to humanity, not the computer, and taking risks is the only way to survive—so Penley does that, and saves them all. (Plus Penley's actions and the Doctor's added up to defeat the Warriors—neat.) Their acknowledging each other then was a BRILLIANT moment—Clent going "You are the most insufferably irritating and infuriating person I've ever been privileged to work with" and then "Can't write a report though, can you? Something I've got to do for you. Well don't worry, it's something that I've been trained to do." Babies! Or rather human, wonderfully human men, different and flawed and stubborn and fearful and brave. I loved those two so much, really.

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*waves sleepily* Hello, hello. Well, I just spent most of my evening tucked between two pillows (the second one is a red, heart-shaped, super soft thing with an elephant pattern I'm currently cuddling to my stomach, which is naturally the most convenient thing to type—just in case anyone wanted to know, here you are), watching the end of that ep—at least the afternoon was productive. So review time it is.

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Cybermen, yay! Team!TARDIS, yay! Half of it not a recon, yay!

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Oh dear, I watch at a snail's pace. XD One part on Feb 27th, one part on March 9th, and the last two today. Funniest thing is, I started this afternoon, was interrupted five minutes into the ep, then decided to get back to work "for a bit"… and yeah, I abandoned it until tonight. XD Tonight is FREEDOM though—good progress on work, up to date with emails, icon batch posted and all of my notebook writings typed up, that means basically nothing to do but watch loads of classic!Who! I might just add another part or two before I leave tonight… it's an orgy. XD

Anyway, The Highlanders. I don't have many comments, but it was rather lovely—Two is absolutely delightful, I love his damn hat and his voice and his silly, playful manners. His impersonating a German doctor was priceless (Doctor Who?), and his being all sleepy while Polly was frantically requesting his help, too ;) Speaking of Polly, I think I'm warming up to her. Favourite parts are definitely when the team TARDIS is all together, they're a lot less interesting when all split up. Together they have all the fun character interaction. I hope Jamie will bring even more to the mix ^_^

That's all I have to say, so I'll fly off and watch more classic!Who while I still have the time. I have a way of always having a ton of things to do, so better enjoy the freedom while it's there ;) Love, everyone!

Goodbye, One and amazing William Hartnell. My first classic Doctor ♥ (Much looking forward to Two! There was none of him in the ep but his face, but I'll probably watch the first part of Power of the Daleks this afternoon.)

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*shrieks happily* I AM DONE WITH S3! I AM DONEEEEEEEEEEEEE

And The War Machines was a brilliant episode. It's funny, from the start I got that feeling like the atmosphere had shifted—part of it in the filming, and part of it in the plot, that felt more sci-fi… Idk. But it was fantastic. The plot was quite interesting—and the characters!

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Classic Whooooo ♥ So this episode was pretty delightful. First—comboys! I had Town Called Mercy feels, this was fun. The Doctor wears a hat and gets mistaken for another Doctor! :D

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All right, so like most of us DW fans around the world, I watched the Rings of Akhaten, with ALL THE SYMBOLISM—and in-between loving Clara and wondering about Clara and the grandfather theme and her mum’s role in the story (there’s something, there’s something, there’s something going on with herrrrrr…) I just couldn’t seem to stop thinking about River. Happens to me a lot in episodes she’s absolutely not supposed to appear in, except that here there were REASONS!

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