You know, I have posted something to this blog every single day for over a year. Some days it's nearly a novel, some days it's barely a sentence, but there's one there for every single day. Today is no different. And that's about as profound as I feel like getting on this particular day.

Yeah, I also watched Doctor Who while walking on a treadmill, so I guess I'll talk about that too.

Time and the Rani - Parts 3 & 4

(TARDIS Data Core recap)

The first problem with Time and the Rani is that it is written by Pip and Jane Baker. I am sure they are lovely people, but their entire contribution to the Doctor Who mythos was to create a low-rent female Master, and to botch the ending of The Trial of a Time Lord. The second thing is not necessarily their fault, it's not like they caused Robert Holmes' death. As for this story, I recognize that they were hampered by the fact that they had no idea whether it would be a Sixth Doctor or Seventh Doctor story, and they had no Script Editor with whom to consult because Eric Saward quit and Andrew Cartmel hadn't been hired yet. Even so, this was just a mess of a story.

The Rani's big evil plot is that she has kidnaped several of the smartest people in the universe in order to use their brainpower to build a giant brain to calculate how to blow up an asteroid made from Strange Matter to trigger a chain reaction that will destroy the planet upon which the giant brain lives but surround that planet in chronon particles that will trigger the brain to grow to planetary size before being contained by the chronon particles and thus become a Time Manipulator. Or something. I didn't exactly follow the non-chain of non-logic.

Also, Mel continued to not die.

Thus far the defining characteristic of the Seventh Doctor is his continual use of maplropisms. I really hope they ease off on that a bit. It's not awful, but it does get a bit grating after the sixth time in twenty minutes.

And that's all I have to say today. Maybe tomorrow I will be feeling more loquacious.

STATS:

Doctor(s): Seventh
Companion(s): Mel
Episode(s): Time and the Rani - Parts 3 & 4
Steps Walked: 7,542 today, 2,384,209 total
Distance Walked: 4.20 miles today, 1,233.39 miles total
Push-ups Completed: 6 today, 14 total
Weight: 244.88 lbs (five day moving average), net change -62.42 lbs