Four hours after finishing Series 2 of the new Doctor Who

Otherwise known as midnight, give or take.
Setting: A singularly organic bed.

E: "It's interesting how Rose ends out her run on the show with her dead father back, her parents happily together and much wealthier, her ex-boyfriend newly-proven brave and worthy, and with a high-powered and noble career, you know? All because of her time with The Doctor."

K (groggily): "You're just realizing this now?"

E (lying): "No."

K: "Mmpf."

E: "But think about it! It's like Pretty Woman for Southwark girls. Ummm, without the sex, I mean."

K: "Ggghlmp."

E: "Unless...oh! You don't think -- do you? -- the whole "traveling together," all the "seeing the universe" -- well, I mean, they make a point, don't they, of how "mind-expanding," it is; that's a time-tested trope straight out of Rocky Horror -- do you suppose all the exploration..its centrality; the suspicious absence of on-screen affection; the origin of the show in the early 60's and how the mores prevalent at that time would have forced the writers to be subversive; the fact that he's 953 and she's 19 -- saw a bit of that in Thailand, by the way -- the payout to her at the end...my god, it's true; all the journeying on the show -- it's just one big metaphor for her passage from innocence to courtesan, isn't it?"

K (suspiciously): "You haven't been blogging, have you?"

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But I still think Tennant is an annoying, mugging substitute for the sublime and smoldering Eccleston. And that the series has become hopelessly -- and, on reflection, unavoidably -- formulaic. Kudos to the creators of the "Love & Monsters" ep for trying creatively to overcome these constraints and managing to be funny as hell in the process. And K and I both greatly appreciated the brilliantly executed showdown between the Daleks and the Cybermen in "Doomsday." Aw, just go watch the best bit yourselves (poorly edited; scene actually ends at about 4:00, disregard the rest).