Doctor Who series 2 finale

Curse the Tenth Doctor's procrastination! Curse it!

Okay, yeah, I loved the episode and the ending.


edit: please refrain from putting spoilers in the comments, thank you!

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This is probably the only thing in all time and space that could ever make me utter the words "I love Adam Carolla right now."

Doctor Who - Doomsday

It was, for me, a thoroughly satisfying conclusion to the second season.

( some specific commentary on the final scene, and on the romance factor of the new series in general )

The Time Traveler's Wife

I just completed The Time Traveler's Wife.

Oh. Oh. Oh my.

That's one of the best books I've read in a while, and certainly one of the best romances I've read in a long time. (I don't read many romances.) It was... different. Odd. Strangely structured but beautifully delivered. Thoroughly satisfying. Happy, sad, and everything in between. Utterly and completely romantic. It's left me with the same romantic rush that I got from Moulin Rouge and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, only this was heavier than either of those two.

It's also given me a totally different perspective on the end of this season's Doctor Who. But that's off-topic.

Anyway... Oh. My. Wow. This book is great and moving and sad and happy and I think anyone who reads it could love it, male or female. The book alternates 50/50 from the perspectives of the two lead characters, meaning you spend as much time in Henry's head as you do Clare's, and vice versa. The characters are very real, with their flaws and their virtues. It's very unusual but it's so worth it.


Note: this is the second fiction book I've completed this year in between classes, the previous being Memoirs of a Geisha. While I enjoyed Memoirs, I have to say that The Time Traveler's Wife was a better written and more moving book.

"all the world, and time"

The words "All the world--and time" were used in The Time Traveler's Wife, and I've been googling for like 10 minutes trying to find the origin of that quote. I think it was from a poem, somewhere. I know I've heard it.

So far, the most I could find was that it was the title of an old Star Trek episode. I know it's from something earlier than that.

EDIT: It helps if you get the quote right. :D What I should have been looking for was "world enough, and time", which is in the first line of Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress":

Had we but World enough, and Time,
This coyness, Lady, were no crime.
We would sit down and think which way
To walk, and pass our long Loves Day.