Writer's Block: Fashion faux pas

[Error: unknown template qotd]The strangest thing in my closet (?=wardrobe) ? Probably the 1980s blue plastic 'foot spa' that was left behind unsold after a jumble sale -- I used to have a lot of trouble with my feet before I resorted to hand-made shoes, and so appropriated it. I don't use it very often now as it is a pain to get out and set up (not to mention draining several pints of water afterwards), but it does help. I think the vibration probably relaxes the feet. You have to be careful not to rest too much weight on it while sitting though, or the plastic deforms and starts grinding against the mechanism -- or at least something causes it to make unpleasant labouring sounds.

*reads thread title*

Oh, this was supposed to be about clothes, was it?

Dr Who: Closing Time

Oh dear.

The worst episode of the series so far, I think - Slacker Dad plus some sniggering humour, ancient cliches, so much massive coincidence they felt the need to apologise for it in the script itself, and possibly one of the lamest ways to defeat a monster (and most ineffectual uses of a monster) ever. This felt like a filler episode rushed together at the last minute on a minimal budget -- with all of time a space to choose from, do we really need yet another present-day London-set Earth-bound episode, let alone one as lame as this? The worst of Spielberg meets the worst of Russell T Grant, without the virtues of either.


And were we supposed to remember who 'Craig' actually was? I'm assuming he was some character who turned up for an hour in some episode six months ago, or possibly last year... but frankly I'm not sufficiently interested in him to go and do the research. If this makes me Not a True Fan so be it.

(I did like the idea of the Doctor being able 'to speak Baby' in addition to all the other languages at his command -- but I've a feeling even that is wheeling out something that's been already done earlier.)

I think this episode actually had negative enjoyment value: it detracted from the rest of the series simply by existing :-(

And I didn't think much of the sudden cliffhanger switch either, harking back to a previous overwrought and unsatisfactory plotline ("A Good Man Goes to War")