The Old Blue Box

It's finale time again folks. Here's your squee post for The Name of the Doctor which is on at 7.00pm. Tonight, we may or may not find out the Doctor's greatest secret (in fact, I propose a betting pool as to how Moffat might get around revealing it. My money's on Convenient Interruption by Injury as previously seen in Dragonheart).

As always, squee, complain, or dive behind the sofa.

Afterwards I'm sitting down with the family to watch Eurovision with the subtitles on (hence the icon) - if you're in Europe and have never actually tried the translations option, you're seriously missing out. One year a song turned out to be about tomatoes.

Here's your squee post for The Crimson Horror, which is on at 6.30pm.

Squee, complain or dive behind the sofa.

I, meanwhile, will be celebrating the return of Madame Vastra, Jenny and Strax, AKA the most awesome Victorian crime-fighting team ever. If we can't get a full spin-off, could we at least have a comic series? Pretty please?

Here's your squee post for Hide, which is one at 6.46pm (hooray for a later start time). This promises to be a scary one, although I'm not sure how scared I will be, since my sister introduced me to freeware 16-bit horror games recently, and believe me, those are going to take some beating in the "terrifying" department.

Squee, complain or dive behind the sofa.

Here's your Squee post for The Rings of Aknaten, which is on at 6.15pm. No commentary or remarks today as I've been out all day and am typing this on my iPod (no easy task by a long shot).

Squee, complain or dive behind the sofa.

Here's your squee post for The Angels Take Manhattan, which is on at 7.20pm. Tonight we welcome back the Weeping Angels, River Song, and bide adieu to the Ponds. Not necessarily in that order; this is Moffat after all. Knowing him the episode will probably play out in reverse.

Squee, complain, empty the box of tissues or dive behind the sofa. I've been avoiding spoilers, but I have it on authority (and by that I mean "I heard it from our co-mod") that I'll need to issue an official Brown Alert. You may also experience Very, Very Localised Flooding, so please take all necessary precautions.

Bit late this week as I've been at a convention all day, but here's your squee post for A Town Called MaliceMercy, which is on at 7.35pm GMT.

Squee, complain or dive behind the sofa. Had I thought ahead, I would have also made a bingo card for every time you hear or see someone in fandom make a reference to Red Dwarf/Blazing Saddles/Back To The Future/Cowboys and Aliens/etc.

After a long wait, Doctor Who is back and this comm comes out of its semi-hibernation.

Asylum of the Daleks is on at 7.20pm UK time, and 9.00pm for the US. If anyone remembers the other premiere times, let me know.

While we're waiting, why not catch up on Pond Life? (goes to the BBC's Doctor Who yt playlist. I don't know where any region-free uploads are) And if you hear a high-pitched noise during the episode, do not adjust your sets; it's just my brother the Dalek fanatic. I'll be spending the rest of the evening peeling him off the ceiling.

And as always: squee, complain or dive behind the sofa.

PS: True story - I was planning on kick-starting this place ready for the new serieds earlier this week, but I was thwarted by a combination of New Toy Syndrome (shiiiiiiny Cintiq...) and walking into a door.