I know. Still. BURNING passion. I still occasionally grieve the loss of my many, many VHS series of Voyager. My first obsession.

The only way I can really answer that is by going down the artistic route - old Joe (or BW-Joe) never grew as a person. Even his love for his wife came from a selfish place. JGL-Joe was beginning to grow, but was still a selfish person. He's not in a place where he can think of 'good' solutions, only solutions about…

That said, I want to use this moment to point out that Year of Hell is a summary within an episode of everything that was wrong with Voyager as a series.

While I partly think I should stay away from this one - I want to chime in because I never even made the connection with 'Year of Hell' before. It was one of my favourite Voyager two-parters and being a lovesick teenager at the time I was more disappointed that Janeway and Chakotay's relationship gets a reset, but…

I really need to practice fondant - my skills lie entirely in the chemistry side of baking, not the artistic side

Ooooh wish I could get my hands on one of these!

Snickering more than I should be

*starry eyes*

I'm at best ambivalent about it to be honest, as I have been with Who this year. Disappointing because I adored the sprawling arc of last year's season.

Wish I could edit this post to say "family friendly" or "traditionally considered a children's TV show in the UK" to stop people flooding my inbox with "It's not a children's TV show".

Hahaha - well I can't stop agreeing just yet because that post makes perfect sense to me!

On the other hand - an important part of family television is discussing the concepts that come up. It's not the BBC's job to police how people watch (or rather, how they don't discuss appropriately) the things that come up.

Oh yeah - I'd forgotten about that one. I do feel like Doctor Who is losing its family show badge, especially with Moffat as showrunner. I don't work with kids anymore so I don't know how they're reacting to it. It's just a thought that occurs to me. I can't imagine the kids I worked with talking about Moffat's run in…

No. You?

I'm not so bothered by the violence or the scariness - I'm bothered by a woman being so in love she jumps to [possible] death with her husband. It's all very glamorous and tragic -I just worry about the young girls watching that. I just don't think there was really enough context or omnipresent danger in the episode…

I should have said 'family show', perhaps, but it's definitely supposed to be appropriate for children.

Oh it's all lovely imagery, jumping into a final battle, taking the last leap together - but at the end of the day it was jumping off a building for love and while we as adults can rationalise that, I'm very worried about the young girls watching this show.

I'm very uncomfortable about a suicide pact on a child's TV show.

Mind = blown

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