Colder than

[altivo]

...a well-digger's ankle? Well, actually, that's what my father used to say, but he was usually pretty decorous. My maternal grandmother would have said "It's colder than a witch's teat out there." And so it is.

Went to guild meeting in the morning, lunch and grocery shopping in the afternoon. In keeping with our usual little anomaly in gasoline prices, I found that in Marengo, gas was $2.78 and $2.77, while in all the surrounding towns it is $2.87 and up. This defies any economic logic or reason.

Replacement for the wrong disc from Netflix arrived in today's mail, as promised. Watched it tonight, it was the right one this time and no defects. So now I have finally see Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor. To tell the truth, I'm not much impressed, though I did find that the third episode, with Charles Dickens and the apparent haunting by "undead" in the funeral parlor, was particularly well-written.

Also filled half a bobbin with finely spun merino wool while watching, so it was at least somewhat productive.

It's late and so to bed.

Comments

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

That was largely the influence of Mark W Davies, as I recall. I liked all the Doctors, but the stories they were given could be quite bad. "The Key To Time" seemed to drag on and "Trial of a Time Lord" likewise. The incredibly annoying Peri as a Companion didn't help.

I did like Tom Baker but that might well be as he's my "first" Doctor - I might have seen a Pertwee episode when rather young, but it was Tom Baker who I saw later and more than once. The one actor I did not care for was Peter Davison, which to be fair is because he was far too good at playing a jerk in an earlier role. I just couldn't shake the incredibly wrong image of Tristan Farnon (All Creatures Great and Small) pretending to be the Doctor.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm quite fond of the Key to Time episodes, with the exception of Kroll (which was just stupid.) The connecting thread of the key itself is weak, but the individual stories are very high class. This is especially true of The Pirate Planet, I'd say.

We agree about Davison. He was too good as Tristan, and therefore you can't get those images out of your head. On the other paw, I kept picturing his small role in The Hitchhiker's Guide where he played the talking roast in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. That's even more distracting than the All Creatures imagery. The writing of the Davison episodes seemed pretty weak too. All that stuff with Teegan being possessed by a spirit from another realm was just hokey and incomprehensible, though we do like the very first one, Castrovalva. There's another BBC series in which Davison played a detective, similar to Lord Peter in the Dorothy Sayers mysteries. He did that role very well and was sufficiently different that I never thought of his other previous parts.

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

I never really noticed it was him as "the meat" so that role was never an issue.