We are also making köttbullar, but kot quite that many.
We’ve made most of our food during the weekend and we’ll make the rest on Tuesday morning.
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We will have our main cooking day tomorrow and mostly reheat on Christmas Eve.
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Finished The War Games just in time! And I loved it! Amazing performances across the board, especially from Troughton. Despite being 10 parts (I’ll get back to that in a second), every individual part is surprisingly breezy and well paced. I love the unsubtle commentary on war; especially considering when this was made. And ooooh I love how incomprehensibly powerful the Time Lords are upon introduction 
My one criticism is that, well, it’s 10 parts. It’s soooo long! But the thing is I don’t even know what I’d cut to make it shorter? Complicated feelings.
Anyway yeah it’s great as expected. Now to see how the hell they’ve cut it down to an hour and a half later
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I guess we’ll find out, yeah
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It’s long, but I honestly don’t find it too long. It definitely is if you try to marathon it, but watch it as 2 2s and 2 3s with breaks, it flies. It’s amazing how Hulke and Dicks keep it interesting from start to finish. They give you little pieces of the puzzle at a time, while still giving you new questions to ask, keeping the mystery alive, keeping it intriguing. If you break down the story to its base level, it is a lot of capture and release, but it’s done in a way that you’re always learning something new and having something to think about as it goes. One of my absolute favorites, and I’d say even the top story of 60s Who.
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Having watched it this way this watch I agree entirely!
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Rewatched The Unquiet Dead. Such a great story.
First pseudo-historical of New Who, and great performances all around. Especially Gweneth and Charles Dickens, of course. And it reminds me of how much I like 9.
Little things. Gwen serving the Doctor his tea just the way he likes it without asking. The Doctor’s little smile when the undertaker calls them “stiffs” then corrects himself to “the dearly departed”.
Lots of establishing ground rules for the new series. Little drop of Rose’s father being dead. Plot actually reminded me of the sort of thing I could see Sapphire & Steel doing.
Doctor: I saw the fall of Troy
Indeed you did, Doctor, indeed you did.
Think this qualifies a bit as a comfort episode for me…
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More than any other classic Who, The War Games is the one I most wish I had on DVD (or Blu-ray). I’ve re-watched it fairly recently on Tubi and I still loved it, but it’s just too long to be interrupted by commercials.
I don’t need it shortened and I don’t need it in color. But I do need it!
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Oh man, freaky moment.
I thought I might watch a bit of The War Games (don’t know what put that in my head). I went to Tubi, clicked on the first episode, was puttering around here (laptop still on mute, so I wasn’t getting sound yet), and when I flipped back to Tubi, there were two people in uniform on the screen…IN COLOR! Freaked me out. Seriously. And then I realized it was an advertisement for the new Denis Leary series Going Dutch. But for just a moment there, I was SO confused!
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Good grief Terminus is boring. Have to have it on 1.5x speed to get through it.
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Oh, Doctor Who with ad breaks, especially when it wasn’t designed to have them, is not a fun time.
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Face of Evil - Part 1: Really liking Leela as a companion so far
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I don’t see that as likely to change. Leela’s great!
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Just finished Survival, so I’m officially done with Classic - until I return to watch the 60’s stories I skipped, that is. It left me with the sort of melancholy you get after finishing a really good but really long book, like, what now? Obviously I still have loads of Doctor Who to enjoy, both TV and other stuff, but it’s still the end of an era.
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Now you start on a Big Finish binge. 
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Audio can’t replace TV. I need to use my eyes to focus, so I have to do something while listening to an audio. TV is easier to unwind with because of that.
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Fair enough. I can’t just sit and listen either.
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Time to watch it all again
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Definitely. I’m actually planning to rewatch New Who with the spinoffs included.
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We have a TV Club if you want a handy place to comment on Series 1 and 2, Series 3 over next year (we’ll be starting Series 3 proper in July and finishing Series 3 in November 2025) as well as Torchwood Series 1. 
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