Yeah, it's been a while.  :)

I wasn’t going to do this, but a friend asked me where my review of “A Scandal in Belgravia” was.  I do hate to let down friends, and it was a rather jam packed episode that contained so much to love and at the same time, so much to wince over.  This, however, is not really a review.  This is perhaps more of an analysis, or a defence, or just simply an attempt by me to put onto paper what I finally think this episode is all about, and what this episode is about is not what it might appear to be about.

So….

The Detective and The Woman: What’s love got to do with it?
Or… Why I don’t Hate this Episode

Okay, so this time I got political.  I have no idea if any of this makes sense.  I wrote most of it while half asleep earlier today, before the results were confirmed, while I was somewhat resigned to the process of democracy.  Feel free to question and point out stuff, or just to scratch your heads. 


Politics depresses me.

Two blog posts in the same week.  Wow, who would have thought.  Although this one is about religion rather than idols Doctor Who.  ;)

I have – due to questions from a work colleague – recently found myself considering the concept of hell; what I believe it to be and why it might exist.  This has been a rather insightful but confusing process as I know what I believe but do so mostly on an instinctive level.  As such I have been struggling to express it, especially verbally.  However – mainly due to Spring Harvest where the topic came up more than once – I believe I have finally managed to break it down and as such have gotten a firmer and clearer view on the subject.

I shall now attempt to explain.

Tomorrow The Royal Wedding Benedict Cumberbatch and Cabin Pressure

Doctor Who is back for a new series so I thought it was time I started to update my blog again.  Also because one of my friends commented that she didn’t know what was happening in my life since I’d stopped blogging.

Anyway, so I’m now back – possibly, maybe, perhaps.  And Doctor Who’s back, so that’s all good.

So where to start?

I’m currently typing this while on my lunch break, so I have about 15 mins in order to say something, so here goes – short and direct.

Elisabeth Sladen.  So sad to hear that she had passed away.  Even when I didn’t know much about Classic Doctor Who I knew about Daleks, long scarves and Sarah Jane Smith.  She was perhaps one of the best known and best loved companions of all time and from all that has been said about her also a very lovely person.  Like a number of new fans I was really introduced to her in School Reunion and like a lot of new fans warmed to her immediately.  I loved Sarah Jane Adventures, one of the best children’s dramas of recent years, and was looking forward to the new series.  I’m sure there are plenty more people out there who were as saddened and devastated to hear of her passing, surprised by the suddenness of it and of what might have been.  I hope they address her passing in Doctor Who itself, the Doctor mourning along with the rest of us.