Plagues

Can't sleep again. This time it was a whole 5 hours before I woke up. It could be the damn bugs climbing across my legs in the middle of the night, could be just an inability to sleep. I finally caught one of the ones I've been trying to catch for a couple of days that I think has been sucking my blood and I tried hard not to smush him too much so I can identify the little bastard. I want to know what it is so I can get rid of it.

I'm sitting here watching TV thanks to the fact that my Internet is down and has been for about 24 hours. I have no idea why; my constant troubles with the cable company could be to blame for that. I don't pay the cable bill directly because everything is included in my rent, therefore the rental office does the direct paying. The cable company doesn't understand this relationship and so they and I have been snarling at each other for the last 6 months. Resolving it is going to be heaps of fun because I'm not supposed to talk to them and yet I have to to get the Internet back. I'm thinking of trying to use the rental office as middleman and have THEM call the cable company.

All but one of the plugs in my front room have quit working and I don't know why that is, either. Two of them haven't worked since the day I moved in here but the two that WERE working up to this point have just up and quit in the last couple of days and now I only have one working to power the TV, DVD, VCR, lamp, cellphone, and laptop. It's a ton of stress on the one plug and I really hope it doesn't give out as well. Maintenance should be here today to have a look at them and I should be here to meet them (if I'm not unconscious from being up half the night.) Won't it be fun if they put big holes in the walls in order to find the source of the problem?

Mum has gone home as of yesterday and she and Dad should be back at Christmas when I graduate-crossing fingers.

The street crews are hard at work doing something; they're certainly making enough racket for half past three in the morning.

I might curl up on the couch and try to sleep there so that the bugs can't climb across me anymore. Maybe THEN I'll get some rest.

Doctor Who episode review coming up after I say ta to everyone else.

Ta,
Bec

PS: Got a couple of hours sleep on the couch. Made the phone calls I needed to make and found out the fumigators are going to fog my place in order to kill the buggies. Let's hope that does the trick. I've killed at least 5 to 10 today and it isn't even noon yet.

I suppose my family's plague of mice and mine of roaches + other insects are related. Next comes frogs, locusts, and wild honey (did I get that right?)

So, to summarize:

1. Plague of darkness (no Internet means no information equals darkness. Also no power in the front room.)
2. Plague of bugs
3. Plague of rodents up north
4. Plague of street crews up at ungodly hours doing noisy things.










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Rebel Flesh

This was one part of a two parter and so we were left with a cliffhanger that involves a second Doctor being created out of protean goop. I assume there's going to be some major issues with the memories for this particular version because while the human versions are dealing with maybe 30 to 40 years of memories, try being the glop-being dealing with nearly 1,000. There's also the DNA factor; I don't know what canon is going to stick to here but I assume holding together a body made of triple helix DNA is going to be a bit more of a struggle than the standard double everyone else has. There's also the artron thing; does GangerDoc get his own pile of artron, does he have to share with the original, or does he just not have any and that means he can't regenerate when mortally injured?

Also, is THIS the Doctor River's SUPPOSEDLY going to have to shoot? (Sorry. I had to say it. Most likely it'll all be resolved by the end of next week's ep and she won't face this version at all but I had to voice what was clinkering around in the back of everyone's head as we approach the halfway point and the major cliffhanger to the series that Moffat was twiddling on about earlier this year.) If GangerDoc gets himself stable enough, it's possible there could be two Doctors running around space and time and that would easily explain why he was acting out of character at the beginning of the series (and why he hadn't aged a day.) However, one of the Doctors would have to go without a TARDIS since she can't be duplicated. Betcha the original gets locked up someplace like a fake Pandorica or something to keep him out of the way.

Oh, look at all this speculation. You know I'm dead wrong.

It appears to me that there's going to be a bit of a fight between the Gangers and the originals because of Miranda shooting GangerBuzzer. It goes back to the old scifi adage that if you're going to have a copy of yourself running around, it's best not to PISS IT OFF. The problem with making a version of yourself mad at yourself is that you can anticipate your next move. Both groups will wind up making the exact same plan as the other and all that will happen is that they'll get into a shootout and a bunch of people will get offed. I personally think it'd be heaps of fun to have a twin; you'd have the same opinions and taste and like Amy hinted at earlier this series, you can do naughty things with yourself that aren't possible with anyone else.

However, this group of idiots aren't going to be playing with the sex toys anytime soon. They're just going to kill themselves.

Of course, the Doctor and Rory appear to think that all life is precious, which makes sense as Rory's a nurse and the Doctor's, well, himself. Amy doesn't really adhere to the idea; I get the feeling her and Rory are brewing up a hell of a fight come next episode, starting with GangerJen and going from there into "They're only copies" and heading into "Your eyes are wandering every time we go anyplace" and the comeback of "Well, it's not easy trying to live up to your precious Doctor all the time, now is it?"

Amy's jealousy is only going to be matched by Rory finally voicing what he and us have been watching happen all fricking season long - that Amy STILL has the major hotsies for the Doctor even now and the consequences of that are finally coming to a head between the not-so-happily married couple. Despite Amy's love of Rory, the Doctor is still that ridiculously unattainable mountain that she wants to climb, and no matter how Rory tries to be big and brave and invincible for her, he's just never going to measure up. Rory's having trouble accepting that he's not quite enough and so's Amy. Amy has to accept that all she's ever going to get is Rory and he's fallible, human, and mortal. Rory has to accept that he's good enough as is and if Amy doesn't start accepting him for who he is, then he may have to step away from the relationship for awhile and remind her of why they hooked up in the first place.

Seeing Rory taking some initiative and going off on his own was very nice in this episode. Amy's such a strong force that Rory often gets smashed into the background scenery and here we're seeing him voicing an opinion and doing stuff alone. They're not making Rory a Mickey and for that I am very glad.

And one MORE thing: I really hope they resolve the TARDIS' waffling on whether Ames is pregnant or not so we can move on, although if it's the Doctor's kid (tiny, smidgey possibility there) there's going to be one awesomely pissed off Rory and I for one can't WAIT to see the man really lose his temper with the two of them.

See you next week for part two of Rebel Flesh, where there is much footage of the Doctor screaming in his own face. Well, that's one way to handle having a sudden twin of yourself.