Pretty Things

I also got a new alice band.  But I need help: what do you think - is 25 too old to get away with a red spotted alice band?

(sorry if I look slightly psychotic in this picture, but it is quite late!)

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Anyway, now the conspicuous consumption is out of the way, I can get on with the gratuitous fangirling.

Torchwood (BBC3 eppy)  Ooh, I absolutely loved this.  Though it is fastly becoming the Owen show, I don't mind because I'm fastly falling in love with Owen.  Burn Gorman must really be a great actor to make such a turn-around in Owen's character so believable.  I'm wondering where they are going with this (is there going to be a pay-off, maybe at the end of the series, where he "comes back to life"?  He's not going to die properly is he?!)  I loved the format of the episode.  I've got a thing about narrated episodes.  That is why I absolutely adore Love and Monsters, Random Shoes and now this.  It's also used well in the TV series My So-Called Life (I used to be obsessed with this) and the film American Beauty.  Was the Wonder Years narrated?  I haven't seen that since before my parents divorced.  Anyway, that device really works for me.  Overall, I feel like this series of Torchwood is just getting better and better.  I'm sad Martha has left - although to be honest I think they under-used her.  Can't wait to see her come back into Doctor Who.

Ashes To Ashes  Hmm.  I don't know if it's because I was tired but I didn't follow the plot of this weeks episode at all! I just couldn't make any sense of it.  Despite that, I enjoyed the episode overall, for all the lovely character moments. Especially loving Chris and Ray.  They seem to really be developing Ray into a more sympathetic character, which I quite like.  I just can't bring myself to care about Alex's situation though.  The fun of Life on Mars was the mystery, and this is just lacking that magic.  I don't think that was inevitable, but it seems to be that way, for me at least. I'll see it through to the end of the series, and hope that it has a good ending.

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Going to go to bed now.  Just a few more hours of work and it's weekend.  Yey!  Plus, it's payday tomorrow so double yey!  I'm going to order some Moo cards, I can't wait :)  Also it's the 29th February tomorrow - I need to find a man to propose to!  It's my only chance at the rate I'm going!