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I'm not posting very regularly - I'm just not feeling much at the mo. Work is very busy and it seems I'm back in the cycle of work then home then flopping into bed. The flat looks like a bomb has hit it and I'm totally ashamed of it, but can't get the energy to get up and do something about it. I am, in what has now become tradition, am blaming my hormones, because they are really evil and hate me.

Anyways on to DW -

I still am not hating this year, but still, I'm afraid, not loving it. It's as I've said, not because it's bad, it's not. But I'm just not feeling it really. I'm watching it each week and am engaged with it, but I don't feel a connection with it. I don't like this because some good friends are loving it and I feel quite bad that I can't join in with the love. Anyways, on to this weeks... There were so many takes from other things in this for me - Tremors, some X Files to mention a couple - but I've said elsewhere on LJ and Twitter, I felt there was a strange lack of emotion from the characters. Amy is gone - the Doctor has a bit of a wobble, but picks up (which, ok, it's the Doctor, he's different) Rory is taken aback but doesn't really give vent to it, no blaming the Doctor and no real showing he's upset. Ambrose has lost her son - again, some initial emotion. But blimey, if my son had gone missing like that I would be a little bit more upset and also I'm SURE I would have given the Doctor a huge mouthful at least if not a big old slap. Perhaps it's me, perhaps I want too much. It just seems to be that everyone is a bit cut off emotionally. Maybe that is part of the plan, perhaps it will mean something next week. Who knows?

Still not 'feeling' MS's Doctor. I prefer him when he is being quiet and somber - I think half the problem for me is he is just not different enough from Ten. Anyways, I liked a couple of touches from him this week, but it's still all a bit 'hmm' for me.

Apart from that, some funny lines and a decent watch. Perhaps I'm just feeling too cut off from DW this year. My sister, who has seen just about every ep since DW started way back when perhaps said it best - 'I just don't feel like I care about any of them that much.' Which is sad.

Caring what goes on was certainly not a problem for me with Ashes to Ashes this year, however. I have adored it and it has cheered me. Gene Hunt is certainly not my type - brash, hard drinking, tough, rude, rough... and yet I learned to adore him. The whole series kept you looking for clues, trying to piece together, along with Alex, what the heck was going on. I'd just about worked it out by the last ep, but oh... it still gave you an emotion punch without going over the top. I cared about every character that the Guv had with him in his squad room, Brave Shaz, broken Ray, sweet Chris. Alex so wanting to get home but still help them all and Gene, gone before his time, a skinny kid who did not deserve his shallow grave, trying to hold them and guide them and not remembering what had happened until he saw it. I even cared about Jim Keats - He made me shout in a non too ladylike fashion at the television a barrage of swearwords everytime he appeared. My poor neighbours really must have wondered who I was shouting at. Daniel Mays who played him was fabulous - He played a blinder, moving in the series from seemingly nice and fair to pure mad spitting evil. I see he's going to be, it seems, in a new BBC sci-fi coming at the end of the year, so I will be keeping my eye out for him.

In the end, A2A gave us an ending, sad yet happy and went out at the top of it's game, which is a brave thing to do. If only a couple of other shows I could mention *coughxfilescough* would have done the same. Thanks Gene (and Bolly and Sam and all the others ) you were wonderful. The Merc won't be the same as the Quattro, but Gene will still be wearing his boots, drinking and guiding people in his sqaud room. Maybe one day he'll get to go to the pub too.