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Storm Chaser by Sheila Rance | Book Review

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Title: Storm Chaser
Series: Sun Catcher Trilogy
Author: Sheila Rance
Publisher: Orion Children’s Books

SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT.

DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU HAVE FINISHED READING STORM CHASER.

SPOILERS.

SPOILERS!! STOP READING. GO AWAY.

Here are some of my thoughts on Storm Chaser, the exciting second novel of the Sun Catcher Trilogy by Sheila Rance.

Throw back to when I started reading Storm Chaser, I was slightly confused because I hadn’t (and still haven’t) read Sun Catcher, but the Storm Chaser was already hooking me in.

The character profiles in the beginning gave you a little insight on what happened in association with them in Sun Catcher, so it was easy to know who the antagonist was, even without having read the first novel.

Set in the Bronze Age, with places such as the Sun Palace and people like the Cliff Dwellers, your mind conjures up many different images and scenes, clearly depicted and expressed by Sheila Rance which is great!

Maia, the protagonist and seemingly most important character in the trilogy tries to run from her “destiny” and it’s odd seeing everyone else try and force this huge role upon her. Becoming whatever it is that she’s meant to be is hard when her aunt is trying to kill her and hires an assassin, whose best friend is a rat. A rodent. A sickly, gross and annoying ass rat who ruins everything.

Then the assassin unsurprisingly falls in love with the one girl who hates Maia for an entirely different reason from everyone else. That reason is because she was afraid Maia was tryna be all up on her man who isn’t hers in any way to begin with!

Seriously though, this book is pretty messed up. I was reading this one part where Elin (the aunt) was at some kind of lake and that scene seriously freaked me out. The silk whispering things and screaming had me picturing some horrifying stuff and I knew in a way that Elin deserved everything she was getting, but reading about how she submerged herself and some of the silk in water and tried to remain there just so she couldn’t hear the silks’ whispers honestly scared me.

AND THEN WHEN ELIN SAW THE GIRL WHO’D BEEN WITH MAIA GRABBING THE SILKS AND BEAT HER ‘TIL SHE BLED WITH A STONE. I couldn’t read this without a horrified expression, because it was so outrageous and disturbing that I just couldn’t comprehend how damaged a person would have to be to beat an innocent person to unconsciousness with just ONE stone, and then abandon their bruised and bloody body in a pool of more stones and blood.

Sheila Rance, you have an amazing way of creating/writing such detailed brutal scenes.

I love it.

Then, there was that Kodo character who was just hating on Razek because he was jealous and wanted Maia all to himself. Seriously peeved me off so much. Bloody ‘ell, Kodo. Either tell her how you feel, or pisssssss off with your lizards.

Oh, and before when he meets Caspia, Elin’s daughter, in the woods and just lets the Thought-Stealer influence him and such really annoyed me. The way he compared her with Maia also further enraged me. Like dude, just because Maia isn’t interested, doesn’t mean you should “get all up and personal” with the enemy. Y’all are friends and that’s a HUGE breach of the Friend Code.

Although the ending of the novel disappointed me slightly, I’m looking forward to reading the third and final novel of the trilogy and then maybe getting around to the first book.

The characters were very realistic and they all had their faults, even the amazing and brave Maia is slightly selfish. But is it selfish to put everyone and her own life in danger because she wants to fly a bird? The answer is yes and I purposefully set the question up that way so Maia looks bad, but she’s actually alright.

And in Sheila Rance’s fictional world, her descriptions made me want to be a part of her world, but also made me afraid to ever live in a world like it. Like ever.

I say NO to the silk whispers and the psychotic family members.

I REJECT the thought of possibly losing my pet cheetah. Yes, an actual cheetah… Or was it a leopard? Nevermind.

And I SHUN the annoying jealous boys just because they’re worse than never being able to fly an eagle.

Overall, I really enjoyed Storm Catcher and thought it was an excellent story with an interesting plot and odd characters with even stranger pets. I give it an 4/5 JawkwardLOL’s.

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Doctor Who 7×06 The Bells of St John Review

Of course! Makes sense. Complete and utter sense.
Except, the last time the phonebox rang? “Are you my my mummy?” (The Empty Child) Yeah, I was a little apprehensive. However it’s just Clara! Brillo-pots! Unfortunately, it would appear that Clara’s new incarnation (is incarnation the correct term here?) doesn’t have the faintest recollection of who the Doctor is.
That’s right! Doctor Who is back and boy are we excited! We’ve been speculating since Christmas about just how the Doctor was going to find Clara. His first two encounters with the woman twice dead were, well, fortuitous. At the end of the 2012 Christmas Special the Doctor vows to find her again and AHA, the expression not the band, there she is on the other side of the phone. The Doctor had withdrawn to a remote time and place trying to figure out what she meant, both in terms of her importance and her final message to him. A message that she’s managed to say both times he encountered her in the past. ‘Run you clever boy, and remember.’
This Clara is a little bit of Oswin Oswald the genius and a little bit of Clara the Governess, only she lives in the 21st century and knows little to nothing about computers. So how does that make her like Oswin, you ask? Well she’s still brilliant, to be sure, to be sure.
However her lack of computer knowledge is what lands her in trouble. Instead of clicking on the family’s Wi-Fi network she winds up clicking on the weird one that’s being used to suck people’s minds into the web.
First of all, burn. I’m going to go tweet that. Secondly-
When she’s pulled back/downloaded by the Doctor she returns with a genius level knowledge of computers again, implanted into her mind Matrix style.

Already I can see people drawing parallels between The Bells of St John and The Idiot’s Lantern from series 2. I can understand why, an alien lifeform using human technology as a way of feeding off humans? In TIL a man was pedaling cheapo television sets as a way of sucking the soul energy and faces off of victims, whereas we have an unknown entity using WI-Fi as a way of uploading people’s minds and trapping them so that it may feed off their intelligence. In both episodes, everyone’s faces appear on screens, trapped and trying to get out.

However, different times and different forms of technology. Also, interesting to note that through technology the entity ‘Great Intelligence’ (acting through their human vessel) was able to control peoples’ emotions and characteristics. Bit sad that when they were all reverted back to their ‘factory settings’ we discover that their vessel had been taken as a child and had lived her entire life under their influence.

I love that the Great Intelligence’s downfall are his(?) minions’ social media profiles. And perhaps that’s what I’ll take away from this episode. Not that Wi-Fi could possibly suck your mind in and feed off your intelligence/mind matter, but that you could literally be tracked down using the information you display on your social media profiles. Dangerous stuff. Thanks, I’ll keep that in mind. Heh, pun? No? Well, I hope the spoonheads get you. Yes I too saw the Information Drones from Silence in the Library. One of the best things about Doctor Who is how they references past monsters/characters/places and things. We should embrace this interconnectedness. I know I do. Remember when someone theorised that dancing was a euphemism for sexual activity?

Power to Clara who tells the Doctor to ‘come back tomorrow’ when ‘she might say yes’ rather than leave with him straight away. She’s a genius and is not willing to just immediately put her life aside to go off with a strange man in a box, even if this man’s the doctor. she’s the impossible girl (granted SHE doesn’t know that) and she will, evidently, do things on her terms.
Special Mentions:
- Clara calls the phonebox a snogging booth. Would that it were, would that it were.
- A fez, always makes you cooler. Always. Also great for collecting money when busking.
- C’mon, are you trying to kill us!?
- The woman in the shop, anyone? Who would know, let alone give, the doctor’s number to Clara? River? Hmm.. I don’t know. Someone, speculate with me!
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Game of Thrones: Valar Dohaeris - All Men Must Serve

Winter is Coming (literally for us in New Zealand) and Season Three of HBO’s smash hit Game of Thrones is afoot. It would be a travesty not to discuss what we’re most looking forward to this season and speculate on how much more they’re going to deviate from the book series. Especially considering how Season One of the show barely made any deviations compared to Season Two.

Whether you’ve read G R R Martin’s series (how about the end of A Dance With Dragons?!) or have just watched the show, go check out this high-quality interactive info-graphic developed by Direct TV based on the show. Pretty cool stuff. It’s great if you want a quick refresher of what’s happened so far on the show or if you just want to check it out for your own fan(girl/boy)tastic reasons. If you haven’t watched the first two seasons or read the series, SPOILERS. Click the picture below and/or keep reading this post at your own risk, spoilers ahead! The King's Road Map

Alright so what I’m most excited/hoping/dreading to see this season: The Unsullied, the Bear pit scene, growing dragons, more from beyond The Wall (You know nothing, Jon Snow), the Red Wedding (sob), the Reeds (finally!), Queen of Thorns, the Purple Wedding (hurrah!), growing dragons. Did I say growing dragons twice? It’s probably because I really want to see more of Drogon, Rhaegal and Viserion.

I suppose I’ll only choose one to discuss because I can’t keep you too long from your lives, also you need time to comment with your own expectations/hopes for Season Three before you leave the comfort of the internet for the real world today.

Let’s talk the Purple Wedding, that is King Jerkface Joffrey’s wedding to Margaery Tyrell, are they going through with this wedding and what it entails this season? I mean, they’re definitely going through with the Red Wedding so it would make sense for this to also take place. I can’t see them deviating from the books on this one, but then again I didn’t think they would deviate from the books in terms of Dany’s dragons being taken from her! So, what could happen in the place of the Purple Wedding? I don’t know what could happen in its place. The Purple wedding was a hot mess of excess and extravagance with a pinch of uncle-shaming, topped off with some regicide. Oh dear, I’ve said too much! Although I will say one more thing, where the Red Wedding stunned us into blubbering messes the Purple Wedding was a small consolation for broken hearts everywhere. Surely. I mean, in a series where bad things happen to good people it’s nice to know that every now and then bad things also happen to bad, jerkface, canty bastard inbred people. Uhm, yeah, so- OW! AH! I am being eaten by mosquitoes! Okay, if uh, if you haven’t already watched it a hundred times go check out the extended trailer for season three.

So, what are you most looking forward to this season?

A little bit of this perhaps? Maybe some of this?

Oh wait same thing, but still so awesome.

Have a think and drop us a line, maybe you’re just keen on boobs, bow chika wow wow and some violence, either way we’d still like to hear from you!

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The Blue Rose 1×04: This Charming Man

The Blue Rose: Monday 9:30pm TV3

The Blue Rose at the all new time of 9:30pm! If you were wondering why, the person below answers that very question! So now that we have a bit of an answer to the ‘why’s it been moved baaaaack though’ question, let’s have a chat about this week’s episode. It’s safe to say that while The Blue Rose Gang work towards solving the mystery of surrounding Rose’s death, there will be other subplots to keep us entertained in the meanwhile. This week we got to know two very different men a bit more, Derek-douchebag-Peterson and Ganesh. I mean, if you thought you hated Peterson earlier, well. This episode cements that distaste and then some. I mean, what a douchenozzle, King Douche, doucheburger- he can have all the douche names. Even if he’s got some hilarious one-liners when he’s pissed off, which is a lot of the time.

He’s off his rocker because Adam Revill, the journalist Jane was about to go to but cancelled on at the last minute, is posting insider information. Revill’s trying to take Peterson down and he’s getting his info from somewhere. A MOLE! Mole-y mole-y. There’s a mole within Peterson’s company, or perhaps in M&L, at first we think it’s Amy. I mean, the signs were there. She seems nice and mousy and deserves better than being Peterson’s PA/bit on the side mistress. Red herring, however. Because in the end Amy’s a snake in the grass herself! Jane said it best ‘You sneaky, sneaky bitch.’ I have to tip my hat to the show. Having us worry that Amy would have gone the way of Rose when she met Revill (who kind of annoyed me in his pursuit of Jane and any information she has) meant when she revealed herself to be a PR genius and was instrumental in taking Revill down, I was quite impressed. And worried that Peterson was going to shiv Jane right then and there in the elevator.

Threatening bastard. Ugh, seriously when he finally gets taken down I will be so, so pleased. I think I liked this episode more than last week’s. I feel that Ganesh’s storyline seemed to work well with the overall problem connected to Rose’s killer, because isn’t Rose’s death related to shady deals between Peterson and the lawfirm? I mean, that’s what I was led to believe that first episode and I’m sticking to it. My opinion will change, I’m fickle like that. I digress, the Pip storyline does compliment the main plot.

I hoped for more Ganesh and lo and behold we got more Ganesh! His own subplot even! Granted it included unrequited love and an app called Sheep Shagger- yes it’s exactly what you think it is. His friend (who he’s obviously crushing on) Pip is an app developer who made the mistake of trusting Justin Lockhart, a venture capitalist who’s completely screwed her over. Yeah, The Blue Rose Gang to the rescue! Due to Sonya’s badassery and Ganesh putting heads together with Philippa, they manage to take him down. And Ganesh even gets a kiss! Two even.

Although it seems Pip’s a bit keen to give everyone a kiss. Even Sonya, not that Sonya didn’t deserve one. She’s the mafia in a cardi, of course she deserved a damn snog! (Sidenote, anyone else notice Linda’s amused look when Sonya intimated that Pip might be gay? Maybe @speshtian was on to something?) Let’s not forget it was Ganesh’s idea for Pip to expose Lockhart for his shadiness, because what kind of business will this guy have if no one wants to work with him. It parallels the way Amy helps Peterson take Revill down. In order to save their own asses they plant a story (hat tip to Amy) which is bogus- completely discrediting Revill. Is it wrong? Because aren’t the media supposed to be the watchdog who keep large corporations and the government in check? Is it wrong to stifle someone who’s just seeking the truth?

Jane asks the same, sorta, thing of Simon who responds, “Right and wrong, it’s all relative.” Ain’t that the truth, Simon, ain’t that just the truth. WHAT ARE YOU HIDING?! Ahem, sorry. I like Simon, but I feel like he knows something about Rose’s death. I mean, how far would Simon go to protect the client? And the idea of the relativity of morality is something this show has played with since the beginning. Was it wrong for Linda to have Rose’s will amended so Rose’s ex didn’t get their house and custody of their daughter? Legally, yeah. It was definitely wrong. But because of the situation and how we viewed the father and what we thought was right for the daughter, it was right. Sonya stole almost a million dollars, stealing is wrong, right? But we feel she deserves it, it’s right because that company’s wrong. Right and wrong are universal terms and ideas, and for the most part we define the parameters of where things fall between and around those terms. Nicely done, guys. These people think so too.

Special Mentions:

- Linda Playing Sheep Shagger appreciation mention!

‘Trust me you do not want to land on a ram.’

- New Zealand’s the smallest village on the planet. True story.

- Kiwi accents, gotta love ‘em. When Ganesh says Kindow, he means Kendo.

- Krystle with a K’s limited view on life and career opportunities for women is pretty depressing. “As a PA? Gawd! What kind of fairytale life do you live in!” But she does pump classes twice a week!

Next week we get to see Homeless Man again. Glad I’m wrong about him being dead. Here’s to hoping he sheds some light on the mystery. Can you help me find the key? Hi-5? Anyone? No? Also if you missed the episode go watch it on demand! Unless you live outside of New Zealunn, then, gutted.

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Miranda 3×05: Three Little Words

Oh Miranda, Miranda, Miranda. This week we find Miranda still, shockingly, in a relationship with Mike. The problem? He loves her. How’s that a problem? I hear you ask, aghast at the very notion. Good word, aghast. Which is what you are, aghast at the idea that Mike’s love for Miranda is problematic. Which, I assure you, it is. You see with Mike you know what you’re getting. That is to say the development of their relationship has been pretty straight forward, thanks to Mike. He liked her, he asked her out. We definitely know where Miranda stands with him. We’ve known he’s loved Miranda since The Dinner Party, where his feelings were laid out on the table for us fans to feast upon. I’m using consumption metaphors because Miranda’s true love is food. Specifically, donuts. (I’m not going to get into a Mike - Gary comparison at this point. Hold your horses.) The problem lies in the fact that Miranda’s feelings are not as strong as Mike’s. Where Mike loves Miranda like a fat kid loves cake, Miranda’s the cake- in love with her chef. Damn it Gary, how did you find your way in there!? And that’s part of the problem! Gary finds his way in there no matter what. Visual reminder? Miranda can’t say those ‘Three Little Words’ to Mike because, as we all know, she’s in love with Gary. And we all know that Gary’s in love with Miranda, I’m not just saying it because they’re my OTP. Now Miranda doesn’t realise her feelings straight away, why would she? She’s Miranda. And so each time Mike says he loves her she’s responded with some nonsense that wouldn’t fly in the real world but works just fine as a diversion in Miranda-land.

Mike: I love you.

Miranda: Oh well, well done, you’re welcome and what a boost! That’s a fine hand, forsooth sir!

OR I uh..I … *sings* Eyes are to see and noses are to smell with.

What Miranda needs is her best friend (try not to burst into that song by Cher Lloyd) and the metaphorical prune to her emotional constipation. Unfortunately, they’ve unsurprisingly had a falling out becase Stevie feels Miranda’s been ignoring her since shacking up with Marple (Miranda’s nickname for Mike). On one hand- MIRANDA’S GOT A BOYFRIEND!!! *Penny voice* GOOO MIRANDA!! On the other? Disco Karaoke Finals. Stevie has the right to be at least a little annoyed. Although to be fair, forgetting to catch Stevie is perhaps no better than actively shoving her to the ground as Miranda does at least once every episode. We know their row is temporary. However before they make up, that poor customer from series 1 who was drafted into helping Miranda come up with an excuse for getting out of Penny’s matchmaking party in ‘Excuse’ is once again dragged into the foray.

The lovely fellow who just so happened to be in the wrong joke shop at the right time, once again finds himself in the middle of a Miranda mayhem and invited to ‘Stay and hang’ before he’s ordered to ‘STAY AND HANG!’ or commanded to ‘THINK AND PACE!’

He doesn’t have a name, despite now being Miranda’s replacement best friend, and interim work-shopper. Thankless job really.

Dominic Coleman is brilliant as Helpful Customer/We-Don’t-Know. For someone who no one knows (not even himself in the end) he winds up knowing an awful lot about Miranda’s life. However not enough to know not to blab to Penny that Miranda can’t be direct because of her ‘pushy mother.’ Or to Michael that they’re work-shopping because Miranda realises that she doesn’t love Mike. As things tend to happen in threes he also discloses to Gary that Miranda loves Gary. All confrontations narrowly avoided thanks to quick thinking and Take That references. It’s brilliant the way that it keeps happening- what’s more brilliant is the way they cover up We-Don’t-Know’s blunders by saying they’re forming a Take That Tribute Band. (I knew Gary Barlow was going to have a cameo so all throughout the entire episode I was just waiting for them to sing Take That’s Back for Good.)

Where not much occurred in last week’s Je Regret Nothing, a lot happens in this episode. It’s a whirlwind of words unsaid, work-shopping and running from geese! Miranda’s inability to just say what she needs to makes things complicated. And we all know what happens when Miranda isn’t able to get what she’s feeling out. Last time? Gary left for Japan. This time? Well, Rose has been texting so there’s every chance that Gary could get back with Rose. Gary needs Miranda’s help with the opening of Gary’s, and she agrees only in her the excitement of her realisation she forgets. Angry Gary is always a pleasure- until he’s frightened like a little girl. Stevie kisses Gary as a way of scaring Rose off, but everyone noticed a supposed lingering. I put it down to Stevie’s allure. Of course Miranda vows to one day snog Stevie’s Gary (Barlow) which she admits she knows would never happen. Fake French. New BFF. Proposal? No, Mike just told Miranda’s father that he took a job in Africa. That confused me slightly. I’m just glad Miranda and Mike ended on good terms. Because I like him. And so Miranda’s alone again, but she’s still got We-Don’t-Know! That blow out scene at Gary’s tho’

Penny: Oh that’s embarrassing, do something more embarrassing so it won’t seem so embarrassing.

Special Mentions

‘I wouldn’t laugh, that’s one of the reasons I love you.’

‘LUV-VOO’

Stevie’s one of us. ‘I’VE WAITED THREE YEARS FOR THIS!’ & ‘Of course (Gary) does (love you back). The minute Mike told you he loved you, I clocked Gary’s face.’

Freakin’ Raymond Blanc!!! Although thanks to Raymond we were treated to a cameo from none-other than Gary Barlow himself! AND FINALLY THEY SING MY FAVOURITE (and surely everyone else’s favourite) TAKE THAT SONG!!!! BACK FOR GOOD!!

Sound off in the comments with your favourite moments from this week’s episode of Miranda!

Oh I don’t kno-SOUND OFF!!

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The Doctor Who 2012 Christmas Special a.k.a Moffat’s Holiday Trollfest (Spoilers)

First of all, hello new TARDIS console room, and opening credits and theme-tune! I know I should address the new companion immediately, or even the Doctor’s state, but I want to talk TARDIS for a second. Unlike many other fans, I avoided seeing pictures of the new TARDIS console room floating about for I wanted it to be a surprise and what a pleasant one it was. Reminiscent of Classic Who consoles and less gimmicky than the last, for some reason it felt much more… spaceshiplike. Very slick, sleek and space-sheek. Lookin’ fine, Sexy. (Even if your outside needs a wash.)

However back to the episode and everything in it that isn’t the pretty new TARDIS console room. Right, so while people all over the (Western) World waited patiently for Christmas presents I waited for the Doctor Who Christmas special and now that it’s been watched (a few times) what do I feel? I suppose first and foremost there was flailing and multiple gasps and wide eyed staring but those are symptoms of my feels. What were the feels, however?

There is no pinning them down, especially when it comes to an episode like The Snowmen. Sure there was some terror, trust me when I say I won’t be seeking out snow for the next few winters, and some pangs of sadness and anticipation along with nostalgia and the beginnings of awe and the utmost curiosity and eventual frustration at the need to know more than we’ve been given. *Whoa breathe* So perhaps the feels were much more identifiable than I had originally led you on to believe.

I’m going to take a stab in the dark and say I felt the entire episode was a bit of a metaphor for Clara’s storyline, spawned by the simple idea put forward that the snow that could remember. If you can remember back to the first episode of the seventh series Oswin’s last words were ‘And Remember’ (conveniently recalled and shown in the last moments of the episode). The idea of remembering, bringing to mind an awareness of someone or something that had been seen, known, or experienced in the past, is evoked pretty early in the episode. When the Doctor suggests that the snow remembers when it was last a snowman he’d pulled out Amy’s glasses and put them on, forcing the audience to remember the last owner of those glasses whilst also remembering that Clara had been seen before. And so questions that popped up as a result of the premiere were once again recalled and half answered before new questions were placed over them. Who is Clara Oswin Oswald? How is she both in the past, in the future and in the present having died twice already, and more importantly is she to follow in Rory’s famous footsteps and wind up in the Hall of Death?

Thoughts on Clara? I like her, she’s clever, independent and funny. And well her storyline is already intriguing. I mean, how would she have known that the word ‘Pond’ would have roused the Doctor from his sulky-slumber? She’s the same Oswin Oswald.. but how? Well, she’s going to be novel fun I know that for sure because seriously:

Message from Jess: As much as I loved it, all I was thinking was Doctor you are married.

Yowsah, to be fair that thought did cross my mind when Clara full on pashed the Doctor in the hallway. Err maybe theirs is an open relationship? I don’t know that River would take too kindly to this. We didn’t see her in the trailer at the end did we?

Can we get to the state of our dear Doctor? He’s wearing Amy’s glasses, no bowtie in sight and the only thing that rouses him enough to help is the word ‘Pond’. He so desperately needed an Intervention. Which Vastra, Jenny and Strax tried to give him in the minisode. Did anyone else feel a lump in their throat when he realised he’d put on a bowtie? It’s easy to imagine how lonely he is without the Ponds and the punishment he’s putting himself through with his self-imposed isolation. But in the end the Doctor’s the Doctor and despite his pot(ato)shots at Strax, and adamant protests to helping, he does help and remembers that this is what he’s made for. When he finally puts two and two together, souffle girl and Clara are the same person, the glee on his face is palpable. The hunt for Clara and answers is on.

Observations

Commander Strax- Sontaren wet-nurse resurrected? Well, do not be alarmed because he was the best comic relief of the episode. hands down number one scene stealer- even from the Doctor and Clara themselves because ‘Sir, permission to express my current opposition to your current apathy! (Permission granted.) Sir, I am opposed to your current apathy!’

“Silence, boy!” I was in stitches during the memory worm scene.

Vastra and Jenny - married and quite possibly who Doyle based Sherlock Holmes on? Brilliant trollin’ brilliant. Especially on the fact that fans wouldn’t like the idea of Sherlock being a woman- sexism first and foremost. I’m glad Victorian readers could overlook Vastra being a completely different species to humans. Can I just say Vastra and Jenny happen to be my OTP? Because do not suggest any impropriety, they’re married. Boom marriage equality.

Special mention: The Doctor cosplaying as Sherlock with his horrid deductions, but brilliant pipe and wardrobe. Unfortunately until April…