The Vampire Diaries 7.3 "Age of Innocence" Review

                                             
The age of innocence, more like the age of duplicity with Lily (Annie Wersching) and her new 'family' all harbouring secrets of their own and betrayal in their hearts.

Three Years From Now Stefan (Paul Wesley) calls Tyler (Michael Trevino) telling him his scar's opened up and he tried to warn Caroline (Candace Accola King) but she won't answer.  Tyler doesn't want to get involved and he tells Tyler to keep safe, as Stefan burns his car

Now Caroline reads about Valerie ( Elizabeth Blackmore) in Stefan's journal and he calls his phone, Caroline answers and mentions Valerie to him, dirty blonde hair, blue eyes"  (lousy accent! Ha) As Valerie comes in, cue bad flashbacks and tedious too.  Valerie met Stefan back in 1863 (year of choice for this episode, or rather year of revisit) at the Mystic Falls fair.  They meet, talk, hit it off and before you know it they're all over each other.  This being Stefan's first time and he just wants to undress her himself (yawn!)  Taking her to Lily's grave where he used to put flowers there every week.  He told her how when he was ten and his father sent him to get some flower for a tonic to help with her consumption, but she was sent to the sanatorium.  Valerie tells him the cream violet wouldn't have helped so he can't blame himself.  That she worked at the sanatorium  and nursed the patients there.  The flower was just an old wives tale, bit like her.

Today Lily turns up and parallel parks knocking the bumper off a BMW.  Stefan tells her she can have his house but she's not getting the car, or wrecking it, strange since we've just seen him destroy it three years later.  He tells her Damon's (Ian Somerhalder) left town and they're not talking.  Then he takes her for a driving lesson and she tells him about sending Valerie to check up on him cos her sons thought she was dead.  Only Valerie fell in love but didn't tell Lily this.  Then we meet Julian (Todd Lasance) who turns out to be Lily's boyfriend, which Stefan finds hard to believe and she's been looking for him sever since.

Valerie left, was sneaking out to be with Stefan, but Julian beat her up and killed her baby in the process, Stefan's baby.  She awoke in the ship and Julian told Lily she was beaten up.  Lily gave her blood and made her better.  She tried to kill herself, succeeded and came back to life cos of Lily's blood and he was the first hybrid.  Valerie goes to meet Stefan where he waited for her the whole day like a fool and tells him of the baby.  So if Stefan didn't have any feelings for her now and doesn't want to think of the past as he later tells Caroline, why was he there and how easy was it for Valerie to find him there.  Maybe Stefan was thinking, "Valerie, call on me...I'm the same boy I used to be..." Ha.  Had to get that in!

Caroline gives Lily Stefan's journal saying he loved her and wrote about her all the time.  She reads an extract and lets Caroline go cos Stefan was honest with Lily.  Oh don't tell me Stefan will have a change of heart and side with Lily, cos that'd be too much of a betrayal.  After all she was the one who deserted them.

Damon tells Alaric (Matt Davis) and Bonnie they're going on a road trip to Myrtle Beach which is where he found Oscar (Tim Kang).  Bonnie asks Alaric about the stone and he tells her he destroyed it in hydrofluoric acid, which of course he didn't.  Oh Damon can never keep any clothes on or that towel either!  Ha.  Bonnie is still having visions of those people being killed and wants Oscar to siphon those feelings from her.  Oscar recalls Damon from 1863 and the Civil War, but Damon feigns to forget.  Oscar senses the stone and Damon tells him if he helps her, he won't tell Lily where he is. He's been hiding out from her cos he wants his 'freedom' and not be ordered to do what she wants like the rest of her family.  Oscar tells Damon he didn't compel him back then when his entire regiment was slaughtered.  He spoke with him and he did what was in his heart.  Damon wanting to desert but that wouldn't look good in his father's eyes.  Damon also saying he couldn't tell his friends he fought for the South.  Well wouldn't they already know he fought for the South.

He manages to subdue Oscar along with Bonnie and Alaric and he is put under vervain.  Before Damon calls and tells Lily about having Oscar and using him as leverage to get Elena back.  He's got a new family too just like her.  Valerie does a locator spell and finds Oscar weeding out how he knows where Julian is from him and kills him cos she can't let Lily find Julian as he's a demon.  So presumably Lily will think Damon killed Oscar if she finds out.

Bonnie knows about the stone and Alaric tells her he wants to bring back Jo.  The only person he ever loved (what about Jenna?)  Anyway Bonnie gives him back the stone and tells him not to lie to her again.  He shows Bonnie where he's keeping Jo under ice, so to speak.  Bonnie telling him he's getting into necromancy.

Caroline returns and finds Stefan asking if he can remember the first time he saw her.  Especially after Valerie told her she didn't have any powers to compel Stefan back then.  But she says he'd only remember Elena.  Stefan saying he doesn't live in the past.  Couldn't tell if he was being honest here or not, but he's had so many others after Valerie and before Caroline.   I am tired of where this season is going and the introduction of these new characters that I can't care less about.  There's just something missing in this season and I don't mean Elena either.  With this too-ing and fro-ing and flash forwards and flashbacks.  Even Damon's lost his funny edge.

It appears in the future the producers want to 'pair off' as many couples as possible like Bonnie and Enzo are together in the future, but Caroline and Stefan aren't and part of this will be cos of Valerie. Don't ell me Caroline goes back to Tyler, since Stefan made that call to him in the future.  Which is all going back to the past if that's the case, but what about Bonnie and Jeremy.

Downton Abbey Series 6 Episode 8 Review

Final episode ever of Downton, for now anyway.  They may decide to make films, who knows, have a spin-off seeing as it has so many fans globally who will miss it.  Though there is a Christmas special to tie off all the loose ends that couldn't be done now.

It's all about Mary (saying there's something about Mary would be a bit of a cliche by now and it's old hat.)  But she's still glad she sent Henry Talbott (Matthew Goode) packing and feels it's the best thing for her.  Even with Branson (Allen Leech)  telling her it's not.  That she's unhappy cos of it and she's just sabotaging everything, especially her own happiness.  In the village they see the paper headlines announcing the death of the Marchioness, that's Lord Hexham, cousin of Bertie Pelham (Harry Hadden-Paton) so many times removed.  Now they feel Bertie will be out of an agent job, leaving Edith (Laura Carmichael) marrying a penniless man if she accepts.  Still it's all about money and position cos that's how it is with Mary (Michelle Dockery).

As Bertie arrives at Downton on his way to Tangiers, Cora (Elizabeth McGovern) mentions how he must miss his cousin, who was always so good to him.  Bertie's mother is much sterner though and she's the only family he has left.  Mary still making snide remarks about him and Edith until she finds out that Bertie is the new Marchioness and will become Lord Hexham, making him even grandeur than the Earl of Grantham and Mary too.  Saying they'll all have to bow to Edith and Branson asks Mary if she could bow before Edith.  Well we all know the answer to that one don't we.  Mary is jealous and there's no denying it, as Branson tells her.  Infact she's actually livid that Edith could do much better than her.  Making excuses about how Henry is just a mechanic.  Tony Gillingham is mentioned numerous times, though why I don't exactly know, I mean they don't have to keep talking about him being perfect for her cos he was titled and all the rest.

Rosamund (Samantha Bond) and Cora think Edith should tell Bertie about Marigold before she accepts his proposal and Robert (Hugh Bonneville) thinks she should do whatever makes her happy. Cora says she she should tell him though she can't make Edith say anything to him cos she's grown up and is her own woman.  Robert doesn't really like Rosamund interfering and it's go nothing to do with her not having children.  She and The Dowager (Maggie Smith) were in on the news at the start and did try to influence Edith into giving up Marigold.

Branson tells Henry to come down and he does so under the pretext that he's driving from Durham and right past the gates, so Branson thought he should drop in.  Cora asks him to spend the night and Mary is quite angry at that.  She wants him gone as soon as possible and says as much to Cora. Again she walks in when they're talking about Edith and how she should come clean with Bertie.  Of course she's worked it out by now as she tells Branson as much and it wasn't his secret to tell as he puts it, confirming what she already suspects.  Edith accepts Bertie's proposal, but she doesn't tell him and you can still see how she's agonizing over whether to tell him, or to wait.  Though it would be marrying him under false pretences if she doesn't tell him.  He takes the response as being a 'yes' to his proposal.

Mary has a fight with Henry when he says that they're different and he hasn't got a penny and she's livid (again) that he can call her a money grubbing gold digger, wanting him gone.  Everyone knows he's right for Mary except Mary doesn't want to believe it.  Instead she just lashes out at Edith the next day at breakfast.  Robert making a quick getaway with the excuse of having letters to write.   Wonder if Mary would've blabbed if he had stuck around.  Bertie has an announcement but Edith stresses it's not a good time.  Branson says if it's good news then they're all happy for her and Mary drops Edith right into it by blabbing about Marigold and then making excuses saying she thought he knew and Edith told him.  Oh yeah pull the other one, she wasn't fooling anyone.  Can't believe there was no slapping in this episode!  (Or series between Mary and Edith.)  Bertie leaves and Branson tells Robert how Mary accidentally told him, but Robert knows Mary wouldn't have done it by accident.

Bertie says he would've accepted marigold but she would've married under a lie and by not trusting him, which they'll never know now.  Think Bertie gave up easily on her cos of the title and what that entails, but more importantly it was more about his mother than any trust issues.  Even when Edith explains she knew it would ruin things and that's exactly what happened.  Bertie didn't even want to meet her halfway.  So who was the bigger person and who had trust issues?

Edith packs for London and leaves but not before having it out with Mary.  It was the fight of the entire six seasons but they just should've had it before!  Mary again saying she was wrong and thought she'd told him.  Edith adding she knows her, she's her sister and she's not talking to their mother or anyone else.  She's an outright vindictive, selfish bitch.  Edith managing to get bitch in twice there!  She wasn't happy and she couldn't see Edith happy either and so she ruined her life, as well as ruing her own life.  When she's unhappy she just lashes out and it's always against Edith.
Branson tells Mary the same too, that she can't see how much she loves Henry and she's so high and mighty, trying to bring her down another notch or two.

In London Laura (Antonia Berth) tells her that Cassandra Jones, the agony aunt is coming in for a meeting cos she wants more money and so she suggested a meeting in person to negotiate.  Edith thinks she might send someone pretending to be her, so they'll say 'bananas' if they think 'she's the real thing.'  Of course I said it was a man and it turns out to be Spratt (Jeremy Swift) of all people. Should've got the hint when the Dowager returns after Branson writes to her and tells him Spratt's gone missing.  That as a butler he should know when she's coming, he doesn't need to be told.  She tells Mary about being in love and Henry is perfect for her cos he's strong and that's who Mary needs. Mary cries, it's not cos of that but the fact she can't be another car crash widow and after the accident, she thought it was Henry who died.  He would give it up for her, but then he'd resent her. Mary says "nobody can believe I know my own mind."  As she told Anna earlier.  But we did know especially when she's not in a jealous rage.  Of course she wanted Henry she flirted as much with him. Even Henry knew her when he told her, "if you're trying to get rid of me, I'm going to make this as hard and as horrible as I can."

Guess many would be disappointed it wasn't Branson in Henry's place, I mean those passionate fights between them and they came so close to ...almost kissing again!  He even said outright, "you're not a princess in The Prisoner of Zenda."  Granted she was Sybil's sister and so an unlikely couple, but there was more fire between them than laid back, boring Henry Talbott!  Who didn't even raise his voice, to win her back, but somehow she changed her mind, even saying she doesn't quite know why and that was it!

Mary finally resigning to the fact that she loves him after all and asks him to come down.  She pays a visit to Matthew's grave and asks for his forgiveness, she's getting married but she'll always love him. Isobel (Penelope Wilton) sees her there and tells her she comes down often out of habit, as Mary replies she doesn't come down often enough.  Isobel tells her she doesn't need her forgiveness.  So they embrace and Henry already has the marriage licence, have and decide to get married already at the church.  After they confess they're not twenty but they still tremble at the touch of each other's hands.  She doesn't want a huge society wedding.  Mary reiterating what Branson said how a marriage should be about equals which has nothing to do with money.

Edith turns up for the wedding and Mary apologizes to her.  Edith saying she only means it when she's happy which she will be for a while and then she'll go back to being horrible and mean.  Edith bringing up Sybil and they will be the only ones who will remember her, as well a  their parents and Carson (Jim Caret) and anyone else who matters to them.  Branson tells Henry he's the best man at her wedding for a second time.  Cue another marriage for Mary.

Sgt Willis (Howard Ward) tells Mrs Patore (Lesley Nichol) the doctor couple staying at her B&B were having an affair and she may be required to appear as a witness in the divorce.  The place being labelled a house of "ill-repute."  I'd preferred a 'den of inequity'.  She can't believe it and Anna (Joanne Froggatt) tells Mary about it who laughs, as well as Anna and Bates (Brendan Coyle) laughing too.  Mrs Hughes (Phyliss Logan) tells Carson she'd have done the same, laughed.  When they find out about it Rosamund suggests they should have tea there and the photographer can take photos with them cos she's worked very hard for it.  Carson once again expressing his distaste at the entire matter and how the family will be brought down.  Cora wonders why she didn't think of it before and Carson thinks Mrs Patmore should turn them down.  Mrs Patmore asks if they really want to do this and then cries at the response.  Mary saying they don't need her there sounded so stuck up and flippant, like why should she get her picture in the papers for a servant.  Carson still objects and Mrs Hughes calls him a  curmudgeon but she's not going off him cos he's her curmudgeon.

Molesley (Kevin Doyle) starts teaching at the school and one of the children draws a picture of him on a note.  Which is then passed around.  By the end of the day the class is in uproar and he tells everyone he had a challenging time.  Baxter (Raquel Cassidy) thinks he should tell them he was a servant at the house and then they won't find it out.  Which he decides to do.  He tells them education should be for everyone and not just the rich.  He taught himself and read at every opportunity he could get.  As they finally accept him.  Daisy (Sophie McShera)  listens to him and tells everyone he was really good and a natural.

Thomas (Rob James-Collier) wasn't shown much in this episode and Baxter sees him looking out of character, after receiving another rejection letter cos the place is looking for a chauffeur and a butler all in one and he's over-qualified.  Didn't think they could do that with such a position.  Molesley tells Baxter that Thomas wasn't looking the best and said how he hopes Molesley has a better life than he did.  As she runs back Andy (Michael Fox) has to break the door down and finds him in the bath after trying to slash his wrists.  Luckily Andy says he didn't cut too deep.  Carson tells everyone that he's got influenza and only Mrs Hughes, Anna, Baxter and Carson know.  Carson tells Robert who blurts out Thomas tried to kill himself.   Mary berating Robert by saying he wanted to make a saving in getting rid of Thomas and Robert thinks that's below the belt even for her.  Did anyone think back to Thomas in the war when he put his hand up with the lighted match and got shot, especially when Andy says the cuts weren't too deep.  Then that'd mean his character hadn't evolved at all and everything we saw the past eight weeks was all pretense for sympathy and in order to stay on.  Which would be one int he eye for Carson who acknowledges Thomas has a heart!  Ha.  Just thinking out loud!

Carson tells Robert he's going to let Thomas stay on for now and Robert was going to suggest the same, since "no man is an island."  Carson didn't think he had a heart and didn't give him credit for having any feelings.  Thomas saying to George he's the only friend he has here as Mary brings him to visit.  Bringing up her own woes that they're both in the same position, well it's not quite the same is it.  She'll pick herself up and still be in the house at the end of the day with George.  Thomas answers he'd agree if he didn't think he was being out of place.  What made me laugh was Carson's line of "the suicidal footman in the attic!"  What was this some sort of mystery game and not a real person he was talking about.  Though what was also funny was Mary and Thomas being compared to each other, re their lives sucked right about now.  Though Mary had a quick turnaround with hers! The princess!!  Ha.

Though it was rather unfair that Mary got her happy ending, but it seems the show was mostly about Mary and no one else since series 1.  It was kind of intriguing when Robert says out of all of his children Edith is the one who has given him the most surprises and he's waiting for the next one. Now what could that be.  Even if I have been saying for quite a while now that Michael will return and surprise her.  The way they showed her at the end at the cemetery, but more than that.  It was Michael who Edith was the most happiest with.

Isobel talks with Amelia (Phoebe Sparrow) and tells her in no uncertain terms she's not going to rekindle anything with Lord Merton (Douglas Reith) until she has Larry's blessing and his say so on it.  Amelia thinking she'd marry him cos it's what Larry wants, whereas it's what she wants.

Thus ended an era for some in terms of a watchable TV show.  But this last series did drag its heels especially with that hospital storyline which took forever to be over with and the agonizing over Marigold, of course we all knew it'd be Mary who'd be the last to find out and that everyone was right in not telling her, cos she went and did what she did after finding out anyway, blab to the whole world (practically).

The Christmas special should finish off the Edith storyline, Isobel's accepting Merton or not, Anna's baby being born and anything else left to resolve; and they may as well give Molesley's Downton job to Thomas since he just wants to teach.

Doctor Who 9.8 "The Zygon Inversion" Review

                                                 
The episode begins with Bonnie trying to blow up the Doctor's (Peter Capaldi) plane and he says his plane isn't going to land, yes but that didn't mean he wouldn't get away cos he did just that as he and Osgood (Ingrid Oliver) parachute out of it as it explodes.  Clara (Jenna Coleman) wakes up and the clock is inverted (probably a use of the title referring to the Zygon "inversion".  It's like she's in an alternate universe or parallel, of course it's cos she's in the pod and more importantly, she's still alive. As she gets up she hears the Doctor's message on the TV screen and she can see Bonnie with the missiles.  She tries to use her memories and connection with Bonnie to cause her to misfire the missile.  The first one misses, but the second one doesn't, which must've given the Doctor time to escape.  As she freezes the picture, she notices two parachutes.

The Doctor and Osgood land on the beach and they try to get to London.  He notices a police car and he shows them ID identifying himself a  Dr John Disco.  But they're not biting.  Clara sends a text to the Doctor via Bonnie's phone as Bonnie types in her message. she doesn't even realize she's doing it, saying, "I'm awake."   As the Doctor ponders why Bonnie would say that.  Osgood realizing Clara sent it.  They then get the van and drive to London, Osgood noticing the Doctor actually cares for Clara.  Bonnie follows a man from the supermarket to his flat and she converts him to a Zygon.  He runs out and she films him changing, then posts it online.  They arrive in London and he calls it a "dump."  Which maybe true!  ha. Osgood finds the video Bonnie posted and they head to the supermarket.  Where they find the man who says it's not his fault, he didn't want to do it, he just wanted to live in peace.

They need to find Clara and Bonnie goes to her pod asking her about the Osgood Box and its location.  Clara is adamant she can't alter her memories and also confident she won't be able to tell if she's lying, until Bonnie reaches for her pulse and tells them their heartbeats are similar.  She'll tell if she's lying.  Now we know why the Doctor, when he speaks with Clara, leaving her that message, telling her not to tell Bonnie about the Box, is exactly what he wanted her to do.  She finds out it's at UNIT in the Black Archive room and she heads there.  Clara already has access to it, she just has to be there.  Clara telling her she'll come back to her when she arrives cos she needs her.

Kate (Jemma Redgrave)  arrives back and reports to Bonnie.  She finds the Doctor and says they're both looking for Clara.  Kate shoots the Zygons as she survived the sheriff turning into a Zygon with "five rounds rapid".  She's sorry they have to do what the Doctor doesn't want.  She asks him about the gas which will cause them to invert.

At UNIT Bonnie finds there are two boxes.  One is red, the other blue and she asks the Doctor which one is the correct one when he arrives there.  As Bonnie opens the boxes she finds there's 'Truth Or Consequences' written inside both of them with two buttons.  Kate positions herself in front of the red box, saying if Bonnie can push a button so can she.  The Doctor reverting to an American accent like it's a gameshow, tells them about pushing the button.  He then tells them about wanting to destroy his own people, man woman, child and how everyday he lives with that knowledge.  Of destroying people and it doesn't go away.  He asks Bonnie what she wants, as she replies "war."  Then talks of bullies, they don't like them, they deal with them, but then someone else comes along and they don't like them either and on it continues.

Then asking Bonnie if she got her way and destroyed everyone, what would she do after that?  What is she hoping for?  Who's going to be around, will there be music and if so, who's going to make the violins the Doctor asks, or rather, he should've said guitars instead.  But violins are more appropriate for a sob story.  He calls it a "scale model of war and , every war ever fought, right there in front of you."

She realizes there's nothing in the box after Kate closes her one.  Then tells her she can go.  Bonnie being hesitant as to why anyone would forgive her after what she's done.  The Doctor says he forgives her.  She heads back to the ship and calls off the impending war saying the rebels have been taken care of, changing back to her Zygon form.

Funny part, the Doctor saying how Clara changed him and also how he's 2,000 years old, old enough to be her Messiah.  But they care.  I find myself having those feelings here going back to Doctor Ten when he knew his time was up and he was going to 'regenerate.'  Here it's different with Clara as we know every minute is probably her last and the Doctor knows it too.  (Though you never know with this show.)  His expression changing at the end when they're back in the TARDIS and she mentions being alive.  That was a quick change of subject too but the way he looked at her, saying only he can change time.  He knows what's coming up and he doesn't like it.

Osgood evading the question of whether she's human or Zygon and how the Doctor needs to know, but why?  As Kate asked her the same question too.  No answer though.  The Doctor asks Clara to step into the TARDIS and Osgood number 3 shows up.  They couldn't have someone walking around with Clara's face and so they changed her into another Osgood.  But then if that's the case, doesn't that mean the new Osgood is the Zygon.  Leaving the possibility Osgood is human, or are they both Zygon?  She won't answer "until the day nobody cares about the answer."  That's a long way off, in the show and in real life too, referring to the allegory of this episode.  Osgood's first name being Petronella, as he calls himself  Basil (ha!  Brush or Fawlty, yes I went there.)

Osgood referring to the Sonic again and saying the shades are about as pointless as the speaking hearing aid.  Apparently Clara waking up in her flat and thinking she's dreaming was a harkback to Last Christmas.  Osgood asking what the TARDIS means: "Totally And Radically Driving In Space" he replies.  As well as telling Osgood not to look at his browser history when he gives her the sonic (so what's on there?)  The Doctor calling Bonnie 'Zygella' and she doesn't like it.

This episode was topical again, referring to the hating and indifference towards each other in the world.  And pushing the button, what's left after, will everyone's problems, hate and turmoil be resolved.  No, but that's something they don't realize.  Anyway, this is an ep which is more interesting to watch than to write about.  I would add this ep of Doctor Who is actually where Peter Capaldi makes the character his own.  Reverting war just by using dialogue and nothing more.  Having said that, I also think Jenna as Bonnie really had a juicy role to play.  She was ruthless and so far removed from her 'twin' unlike the Osgoods who were quite similar and in their mission to protect the world. Ahh, Jenna you'll be missed!

Eye Candy 1.9 "FYEO" Review

                                            
Men bury bodies at Hart Island, those who are John/Jane Does and can't afford burials are buried here, like Potter's Field.  January 2013.  Box 3034 is shown and inside is a woman's hand with a name on her wrist, letters beginning SA...Lindy (Victoria Justice) meets with Catherine (Melanie Nicholls-King) and she admits she knew about the kidnapping of her sister but didn't want to tell her cos she didn't want to get anyone's hopes up yet.  Recalling her niece, Mary (Ebonee Noel) who was also kidnapped but managed to escape.  She gives her Mary's contact and she talks with her.  Mary tells Lindy about being kept in a cage like dog kennels, which she later found out they were.  The girls were given pills, aspirin and they were relieved to get them.  She made friends with a Sara and they would hold hands through the bars.  They etched their names into their wrists so that people would know who they were.  One day Sara died and the man holding them left the key in the door which Mary used and escapes.  Three days later she led them back to the place and other girls were rescued.  Mary thinks Sara saved the aspirin and took them in one go when it got tot much for her.

The Flirtual Killer creeps up on Catherine as Lindy leaves and it was the same way that Lindy crept up on her.  She fights him off and manages to run outside where she's run over after also managing to lift his balaclava and get a look at him.  She's in a stable condition in hospital and Lindy asks Tommy (Casey Deidrick) how she is.  She says she can't trust Catherine or him after what they kept from her. Turning instead to Jake (Ryan Cooper).  She tells him about Sara and how she needs to know if it's her.  He mentions knowing a firm who does pro bono work for families who have relatives buried at Potter's Field.  As he leans in to kiss her, he's run over by a bike courier.

Sophia (Kiersey Clemons) has the place checked out cos she can smell something foul in the club basement.  They finally find Oliver and Connor (John Garet Stoker) is taken to answer questions. Tommy asks him about the Babylon Portal and thinks his boss, Hamish (Eric Sheffer Stevens) is behind it, but Tommy needs proof the killer is on the site and he needs to access the servers there. Connor helps after Tommy tells him that Oliver suffered.  He goes in to work and tells Hamish he knows the police have a lead on the killer and he lets him pursue the story.  Allowing Tommy to break into the servers room.  But when he gets in, the room is empty.

Sophia finds Tessa (Theodora Woolley) in the bathroom and she takes some aspirin.  She takes her phone when she's asleep and finds Tessa is dating all the people Lindy looked at on the site, as if she's obsessed with finding the killer, who's obsessed with Lindy.  She wants Lindy to activate a tracker on her phone so she knows where Tessa is all the time.  Sophia looks inside Tessa's bag and finds the pills which are heart shaped and looking them up on the Net, finds they're used for seizures and bipolar.  Confronting her Sophia is told by Tessa she has a brain tumour but doesn't want anyone to know.  That's why she's been after the killer, so that he can kill her and wearing Lindy's clothe to make herself a target.  Only there wasn't much to this part of the story since she doesn't really add anything to the episode or the plot.

Jake takes Lindy to look at the files and says they'll do it together.  As she opens the file, she finds 3034 doesn't have a photo so she doesn't know what's happening.  Jake then tells her of a Riker's prisoner, Mike (Thomas Kopache) who used to bury the people on the Island and he would know where he buried that box number.  Hamish returns to the office with food for Connor and accesses the camera in the server room.  Then asks Connor what Tommy's doing there.  Tommy sends Connor a text saying he's locked in.  Tommy makes a deal with Hamish that he'll close down the Babylon portal if he presses execute on the computer and doesn't get arrested for it.  In return he also has a clue to the killer.  Tommy agrees and Hamish gives him a flashdrive, firing Connor too.

As Lindy and Jake talk with Mike, he knows exactly where he buried the box and draws a rudimentary map for her.  Also telling them about the asylum nearby for drug addicted girls.  So we're meant to think Tessa was perhaps one of them.  But we know differently now.  Tommy accesses the flashdrive (what he didn't have his own computer and neither did Connor if he has to wait until he gets back to the station.)  He finds that the killer hired someone and the timeline of 12.05 is all wrong.  The night of Lindy's party, when Sophia and Yeager were occupied with putting out the fire.
Jake's car breaks down, conveniently and they stop at a motel.  After getting cushy together and Lindy noticing his bruise, which we think was caused by the biker riding into him.  She puts ice on the bruise and then spends the night with him.

Sophia gets into the shower (darn that window in the shower, shouldn't it have a blind on it!!)  Tessa walks in  and finds the killer saying she knew it was him and begs him to kill her cos she wants it and to spare Sophia.  Tessa gets her wish.  You know if you freeze frame when Tessa is being killed, the profile and hair colour of the killer doesn't resemble the real killer.  Catherine wakes up and Yeager (Marcus Callender) asks her to write down the name of the killer.  Jake comes back after saying the car's fixed and Lindy feels like she's got a hangover even though they didn't drink, er, cos you were drugged! Tommy works out Jake needed an alibi for the party and killed the Vic and later returned back, the fake taking Lindy and she saw someone being killed and thought it was the killer. Catherine writes 'Jake' on the pad, as we see her cross the top of the 'J' with her pen, you know she's writing Jake even before she shows Yeager the name.  As Lindy heads to the Island with him...

Hey guys did you like the way I subtly threw you off the scent as to the rel identity of the Flirtual Killer.  See it was Jake after all and in his not so clever lawyer mind, he thought he'd get away with not being a suspect anymore if he was arrested and had a solid alibi at the time of another killing. That's why I said why is Jake the ONLY one who hasn't been killed or targeted by the killer, cos if he really wasn't involved, then he'd be dead by now! That's why he just walked away when he saw Tommy with Lindy in the basement of the hotel after she was bought by the killer.  He knew he'd get her back somehow.  And Lindy fell for it all, hook line and sinker, especially after finding out Catherine and Tommy lied to her.  HE was the next person she thought she could rely on.  That's another reason why the photo in the file was  missing, if it is Sara, cos somehow I think Sara is in the asylum at the island.
Same thing with Jake's bruise, it was caused by Catherine when she fought him off.  Also I forget to mention Tommy refers to a law firm in the Cayman Islands, Well there could only be one person       associated with a lawfirm.

The title FYEO meaning "For Your Eyes Only".

The Vampire Diaries 7.2 "Never Let Me Go" Review

                                          
Three Years From Now
Caroline (Candace King) is part of a TV production team and her assistant tells her she has a call.

Heading back to Mystic Falls, we see Stefan (Paul Wesley) getting stopped by a man in the road and he takes her to Lily (Annie Wersching).  Heck, other dearest is getting on my nerves, can't she just be taken care of already and put us out of our misery.  SO bored with her already!  She's not even a worthy enemy for the Salvatore brothers and she needs her 'family' to help her.  She was nothing without them and so much for Enzo (Michael Mularkey) saying he only agreed to help her not cos he wanted to be one of her children, but cos he's only here for her, as she touches her hair, like he did, don't tell me he has the hots for her!!  Cos really not interested!

Caroline is taken by the heretics in revenge for Damon (Ian Somerhalder) killing Malcolm and Stefan tells him that Damon killed him but he and Caroline are paying.  Damon heads over to their house and Lily won't let him in the door, she's got the deed showing who owns the house and it's not the Salvatore's anymore so he can't step inside.  He tells her to give Caroline back since he's the one who was involved in killing Malcolm and offers himself up to her, as he later tells Stefan, but she's not biting! (ha, sorry pun not intentional.) Isn't Jeremy the rightful owner of the house and not Matt.

Caroline was taken by Enzo (oh how the tiless have fallen - I mean first he's their friend, then he's not and now he just wants Lily.  Can't wait to see her betray him too, I mean look how she treats her own sons.)  Enzo tells Caroline to be glad he's the one who's keeping her and injecting her with vervain. Which hurts her so he undoes the restraints, leading her to make a break for it, but she's stopped by    the three ugly sisters (ha).  If I hear another useless Brit accent I'll scream!!  Marie Louise (Teressa Liane) wants fashion advice and they're all really as bad as each other.  Nora (Scarlett Byrne) tells Caroline that Mary Louise is the worst  and gives Caroline Stefan's journal which is the first thing she looked for.  In an extract from 1903 she reads about how Stefan met a wonderful girl.

Alaric (Matt Davis) lectures and tells students to keep out of Mystic Falls or get a trespassing ticket. Bonnie (Kat Graham) is told about the Phoenix Stone as he gives it to her, it's meant to resuscitate and bring her back from the dead, but when she touches it, it's cursed and she has visions of killing. She tells him to destroy it, but he doesn't.  He later transforms it using acid and tries it out on a dead person which does resuscitate him.  Didn't he look every bit the evil scientist, what's he up to now.

Damon and Bonnie plan on getting Caroline back and Bonnie thinks if they find the person who owns their house, then he can get into their house and get her back.  Cos there's no way Stefan can enter using the tunnels.  Her plan is to get Matt (Zach Roerig) to die for 10 seconds allowing Damon and Stefan to enter their house.  Only after Matt agrees, as Bonnie's about to bring him back to life, she passes out when she has that same deadly vision again.  Damon knocks on the door and Enzo answers and they have the usual talk of why he's helping her and their conversation is no longer fun filled like it used to be.  Damn it, they made Damon lose his edge and his funny side with Elena gone!  Why, he doesn't need her around to be his old self, I mean he tells Stefan he's got 60 years to kill so why not let him be like he was!

Stefan tries to get Caroline out, but she's been vervained and her skin burns with it so he can't "swoop in and carry her out."  Infact their plan is foiled as Lily wants to bury Malcolm in the crypt, but Damon says that's protected.  She manages to get in and have Elena thrown in the river.  Damon gives in and asks what Lily wants.  Telling Stefan she wants him out of town and she wants Stefan and Damon to tear each other apart, not physically though.  He tells him how she'd take their toys when they were little and then take Stefan's and watch him cry.  Damon decides he should leave and Stefan can complain about Damon to her, whilst he's looking for number 6 of her brood, since Malcolm was number 5 and when he finds him, he's going to trade with her.
Bonnie says she and Matt should fight and he's angry he used to patrol the streets but there's no one around and no children.

Three years From Now
Caroline gets a call from Stefan but she doesn't want to hear his name.  Her assistant is stabbed in the throat and she's staked.  (Medium or rare? Ha,)  Sorry but I just can't get into this season, it's so not interesting or atmospheric anymore.  Thinking we need to ditch Lily and get in some Winchester action instead!!!

Downton Abbey Series 6 Episode 7 Review

The Dowager (Maggie Smith) has a received a wedding invitation from Amelia Cruikshank (Phoebe Sparrow) and she asks Isobel (Penelope Wilton) if this will make her change her mind about Lord Merton, or Dickie as Isobel calls him.  She doesn't believe so and the Dowager decides she will have it out with Amelia.  As well as deciding she's going to the South of France and get out of the family's hair for a while.  This will force her to want to return home to the family after she's spent some time with the French.  She's not telling the family and will leave when they're in London at the races at Brooklyn.  Even if the family will be annoyed, Robert (Hugh Bonneville) will be far more displeased after he hears what she really thinks.

Paying a visit to Amelia, she finds out she wants Isobel to marry Dickie so that she'll get him out of her hair and won't have to look after him in his old age.  She just wants Isobel as a carer for him and wants to live in the house as mistress.  The Dowager says she'd feel sorry for his son Larry, if she didn't dislike him.  She tells Isobel this later on and it doesn't make her change her mind.  But the Dowager gives her something to think about!

Robert decides he wants to go to Brooklyn too and Cora (Elizabeth McGovern) says it's not up to her. It's not like he'll be racing.  Edith (Laura Carmichael) changes her mind when Branson (Allen leech) tells her Bertie (Harry Hadden-Paton) will be there.  Mary's (Michelle Dockery) still indifferent about it all.  Mrs Patmore (Lesley Nicol) packs food for them and the servants will have three days off to do what they like whilst the family's away.  Which Thomas(Rob James-Collier) says he'll spend looking for a job.  He reassures Carson (Jim Carter) he is looking for a job and asks when he'll be sacked. Carson saying it'll be when he does find a job.  Mrs Hughes (Phyllis Logan) overhears him but doesn't so anything to Carson about it, just telling Thomas he doesn't mean to be harsh.  She says he'll fit in anywhere and find friends there too.  (Sounded like she was implying he'll meet that special friend.)  He replies this was the first place where he feels he belonged.

Daisy's (Sophie McShera) exams are on the 20th and Molesley (Kevin Doyle) will sit his too on the same day.  Mrs Patmore offers to bring them lunch.  As Andy (Matthew Fox) helps Mason (Paul Copley) on the farm, he doesn't need physical help, but more help with the books, which leaves Andy in a quandary.  On exam day Thomas joins them at the picnic and Daisy shows them her exam paper which she enjoyed writing, but wasn't sure about question 2.  She gives it to Andy to read and Thomas says he'll read it for him, but he tries and then Thomas takes the paper and reads it. Everyone working out Andy can't read and Thomas has been helping him.  Andy says he's stupid and can't learn.  Daisy with her usual line of "don't say that."  The headmaster says he should come by three days a week after school and he'll help him.  Telling Thomas not to hep cos he'll be confused with the different teaching methods.  He was short and abrupt.  I mean it's like he's the one who found out Andy couldn't read.

Molesley passes with flying colours and is offered a place to teach at the school.  Which leaves the way open for Thomas to stay on.   Not that anyone wants him around.  They all share a drink but Thomas just watches.  Mrs Patmore's house is done and she'll cook breakfast for the guests so she can get a reputation for that, but they'll have to get their own dinner.  As she leaves someone follows her, a press rat it appears, paparazzo alert!!  Let's hope this has nothing to do with her nephew and the war again.  Mrs Patmore also tells Daisy that Mason is like a father to her and she shouldn't think that he won't love her any less.  She's also got Mrs Patmore, so much for Daisy being concerned she was going to be thrown aside!  Why would he do that, she did marry her son after all.

Carson wants to have dinner at the cottage again and Mrs Patmore comes up with an idea where Mrs Hughes puts a bandage on her wrist and says she tripped and can't lift heavy things.  She says he must cook (hey I said that in one of my reviews!) He makes burnt potatoes, forgets to put the crumble in the oven and has to fetch and carry for her, then falls asleep at the table.  She wakes him up with tapping her spoon on the plate and tells him he can wash up in the morning.  Next day she tells Mrs Patmore he survived the ordeal and they laugh.  Mrs Hughes adding life is all about laughing.

In London Edith drops in on her editor, Laura Edmunds (Antonia Bernath) who wants to start an agony column.  She invites her to the races and to meet her family if she's strong enough.  Branson checks Henry's (Matthew Goode) car and says he'd like to do that sort of work.  Edith introduces Laura and Robert is pleased she's so forward thinking (for a woman) he's changed his views a lot. Branson tells her he used to be the chauffeur.  Henry is surprised at the spread and says usually it's just an oily sandwich, though he does drink champagne.  Yeah drink and drive, all the rage back then.  Mary is still in two minds at being here and as the race begins and they near the end, she can't bare to watch and rightly so, as there's a crash.  As everyone rushes over, she finds it's not Henry but Charlie (Sebastian Dunn).  Henry is distraught and Mary thinks he's lucky to be alive and has to go on and not wallow cos Charlie would be saying the same if he was here.

Rosamund (Samantha Bond) wants the family for dinner and to be together and he has to inform Charlie's family.  We knew it was coming anyway, difference being it wasn't Henry who got killed. At dinner they talk of the events and Robert calls it a "bloody waste of life."  Rosamund criticizing him on his use of the English language and he tells her to "shut up."  And she leaves the table.  Henry calls Mary and says he needs to hear her voice.  She's distraught but doesn't want to see him anymore breaking up with him over the phone.  Just like Mary to do that.  She tells Branson in a way she wished it had been Henry and doesn't think they're right for each other.  Branson tells her they will get hurt and they get over it, but only to get hurt again.  That scene looked like they were going to kiss, or did I just imagine it? Ha. Yeah fine, my mind went there!!

Bertie proposes to Edith and she's surprised and pleased.  Men don't think of her in that way.  She asks if she could have Marigold with her too, but doesn't tell him she's her daughter.  He wants children of their own as does Edith but now would've been a good time to come clean.  Mary wasn't being nosy about Marigold this week having other things on her mind.

Baxter (Raquel Cassidy) decides she has to see Coyle to make sure he doesn't have a hold on her anymore and congratulates Anna (Joanne Froggatt) on the baby news.  Who's still being cautious. What was funny was Mary telling Anna she will have to take the train down to London cos there won't be any room in the car!  Yeah pregnant servant woman will have to use public transport! Isobel brings over the Dowager's note for them when they return from London and it just says she's away and has a surprise which Spratt (Jeremy Swift) brings round.  It's another puppy for Robert (huh trying to buy his love with a dog which clearly worked!)  He calls her Tiye who was Amenhotep's second wife, doesn't she know anything he asks Edith.  Cora thinks the Dowager left cos of her.

At least that wretched hospital business is over.  Funny they had Thomas looking for a job being strung out the entire series! Which also leaves Mary having to find out about Marigold and let's see if the show ends on a bang.

Eye Candy 1.8 "AMA" Review

                                   
A man sits in front of his computer and gouges his eye out after he receives a message saying, "an eye for an eye."  He files a report for assault saying he was mugged and the police show him photos of where it happened, but he says he was on the other side of the bridge.  Lindy (Victoria Justice) helps the police find out who it is and it appears she finds a photo of her sister on the site, the Babylon Portal in a continuation from last episode. She calls George (Harvey Guillen) for help who goes to her apartment to access her computer and says the photo might be old, infact it's three years old.  He finds there's a file within the file and he accesses it.  Lindy says it's her file from the Cyber Crimes unit when she was arrested the first time round.  These were files attached to Sarah's photo. Does this mean Lindy was a target from back then.  Sure appears that way.

One year ago:  we see Lindy arriving at a warehouse looking for 'JJ.'  No one helps her but George appears and asks her who she is.  They're 'hactivists.'  She's got thirty seconds to prove herself.  She hacks the site and finds George is his real name, she's 'Magnifyer.'  Tommy (Casey Deidrick) sits outside and tells Catherine (Melanie Nicholls-King) he's found someone who can help them.

The file is too encrypted for him to hack so Lindy has to actually go into Catherine's computer. George creates a diversion and then he's able to access the file, but it's redacted.  She then sees a reference number in the corner and it's the same number on her bracelet, the one saying 'we'll find her.'  She finds the box with the files and finds out she was used.  Tommy wanted her to help them find Bubonic, a killer, a terrorist as Catherine referred to him and Ben (Daniel Lissing) didn't like she was being used without her knowledge cos Bubonic's girlfriend was used and she was murdered.

Ben introduces himself at the bar and tries to pick ehr up.  She doesn't give out her number but she takes his number.  Ben made his move on her before Tommy got there and he was clearly pissed. Seems like he had deigns on her even before Ben and it didn't appear it was just cos of work either! He's angry and confront Ben.  Cos it's apparent to everyone that there's an attraction between Lindy and Ben.  There's a phone inside the box which rings and George tries to trace it.  It's the killer who was waiting for Lindy to find the phone.

It appears the Vic of the knife attack, Edward Kent (Daniel Alexander) isn't cooperating and he doesn't know who would attack him.  He ordered a girl on the Babylon site, Eve (Danielle Burgess) who also had an eye missing.  She had been beaten up and lost her eye.  Yeager (Marcus Callender) and Tommy think it was his assistant and look up Luca (Dan Tracy) on the computer.  He took a girl named Jennifer to the hospital and it was his sister.  He admits he got Edward back for what he did and all his girlfriends ended up beaten.  Tommy agrees to make a deal with the DA if helps them shut down Babylon.

Lindy plays the USB stick and it's an interview Ben gave Catherine.  He wasn't happy where things were heading and Lindy being used like that.  Catherine berates him on arresting her and she didn't expect he'd fall in love with her.  He looks into the camera and says he doesn't regret anything that he did.  Lindy also finds the St Christopher when she trips on the stairs, after George warns her that they're coming back in.  She has a flashback to Ben telling her the St Christopher was for protection as he puts it around her neck.  She heads to the room with the box and George traces the phone saying it's been used by the killer at the Unit.  She tries to get out but the door's locked.  A masked figure appears behind the glass and I have to say, this time round, it sounded more like Tommy to me than Ben.  Though it sounded like Ben all those other times.  Is the Flirtual killer Tommy, he does kinda speak through his nose.  The killer just wanted her to know who she was helping, when she helped Bubonic.

Apparently Lindy had a meeting with Bubonic a year ago who wanted her help in hacking files.  He said the person who hired him had info on her sister.  Ben arrested Lindy so she wouldn't get hurt. Tommy tells Lindy that Catherine had information on a case where a man abducted girls, similar to Sarah's abduction.  That's why Ben got into trouble cos he wanted Catherine to tell Lindy about it.  At the end of the day she tells Tommy that whatever this was, it's over between her and the him and walks out.  That made him angry.

Sophia (Kiersey Clemons) has concerns over Tessa (Theodora Woolley) and finds her parents aren't divorcing like she said, she's in trouble, but she won't talk about it.  Connor (John Garet stoker) and Sophia find Tessa with some red haired guy on their couch and Connor is certain he knows him. Later at the club he finds his photo on the Flirtual site.  Sophia types up blond woman and finds Tessa's photo on the site, wearing Lindy's jacket.   She'll be in trouble now with the killer after her. Sophia tries to call Lindy but she hangs up, as she watches Catherine.  We know Tessa would get it sooner or later.

So after all that it seems I'm putting my money on Tommy being the killer now, even if I'm wrong. He was beaten to her by Ben, and now when he thought he might be in with a chance especially after last week's kiss, it seems she's no longer helping them.  Thus he's been scorned a second time.  what better way to get the competition out of the way than by killing Ben.  The killer also loves her and who loves her right now, well Tommy of course and that's why Tessa's the killers next target cos she's pretending to be Lindy.  Just as the show was getting exciting, they cancelled!!  Thanks for nothing!

AMA meaning 'Ask Me Anything.'

Doctor Who 9.7 "The Zygon Invasion" Review

                                        

Right on Rock Star!! ha.

Three Doctors: from The Day of the Doctor; all talk about the Zygons and everyone will be stuck in the room together until they get their Treaty sorted.   That was with Doctors Ten, elven and the old Doctor Twelve from the 50th anniversary episode.  There being two of Kate Stewart (Jemma Redgrave) and they use their Sonics s that they won't know which one is human and which is Zygon. We learn around 22 million were allowed by UNIT to settle on earth amongst the humans taking on their identity.  Osgood (Ingrid Oliver) who had a sister, runs into a police station and hides.  Barely sending out a message to the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) before she's captured.  The Doctor twangs on his guitar again and this time playing chords from Amazing Grace.  He sees the message and calls Clara (Jenna Coleman) who's "either on the tube or in space".

He tells her he's in twenty first century earth as he sits in a playground and finally follows two twin girls.  Well if they weren't Zygons or human/Zygons then anyone would've been suspicious of an old man accosting two girls like that.  He mentions the Peace Treaty as he slides down the slide.  They're not part of any hostile invasion or breaking the treaty, as Zygons appear and march them away.  

Clara heads to her flat and as she arrives there she finds 127 missed calls from the Doctor, as she calls him back, she notices the boy on the stairs (Abhishek Singh) he can't find his parents.  She heads to his flat and tells the father his son's outside.  Then his mother (Samila Kularatne) walks in and tells her they'll take care of him as the father carries the boy back.  We then get Clara tying her hair back into a ponytail and since when has she ever done that.  Thus we know something's up as she happily heads down to the school where UNIT is set up, having met up with the Doctor.  Who later tells Clara to change her message cos it's boring.  

There's a message coming in from Osgood and a Zygon later says they're invading and trying to protect themselves.  The two girls who were abducted and done away with.  The Zygon telling then, "Truth or Consequences."  Clara says that's a town in new Mexico and she used to remember trivia like that so she could win at Trivial Pursuit.  Kate talks of an outpost and he heads there on the plane, He is President of the World after all.  Telling Clara to stay here and protect her country, whilst Kate heads to New Mexico.   Clara goes back to her flat with Jac (Jaye Griffiths) to get some things and that was another clue something was wrong, cos since when has Clara wanted to get anything, she never thought of things like that over the years.  

Kate finds the town of Truth or Consequences deserted and comes across sheriff Norlander (Gretchen Egolf) who tells her about people vanishing and their families turning against them.  They see bodies, or what's left of them after they've been destroyed by the Zygons and head back to the station, where Kate looks at casefiles.  The sheriff turning out to be one of them as she transfers back into her Zygon form.

                                                 

The Doctor arrives just as Col Walsh (Rebecca Front) is ordering a drone attack, but she sees her son and can't do it, aborting the strike.  They find they're hiding out in the church but Hichley (Todd Kramer) doesn't shoot, as one of them comes out and is his mother (Karen Mann).  He can't ask questions about himself and she refuses to answer saying she can't remember.  She tells them they took them and brought them here and he can't kill her, but she forgives him.  She wants to show him they're inside.  The men enter and are killed.  Here the Doctor finds Osgood in the tunnels as she shouts to him.  The air strike is ordered on the tunnel.  A Zygon appears and is attacked by the falling debris.  He's taken back to the plane and he knows the Doctor is the President of the World, telling him they want the world.  The Doctor also saying it's only a small faction of Zygons who've been radicalized (very topical) but they can't kill them.  So it's no longer a case of letting Zygons be Zygones!! Ha.  Okay, sorry!

As Kate earlier tells Clara it was also the Doctor who took away the gas that they could've used on the Zygons.  Osgood wears two question marks on either collar and the Doctor asks why she does that.  She replies he used to once, he replies he's wearing question mark undies, also asking her if she's human or a Zygon.  She doesn't answer that question and she considers herself both, a hybrid. 

However the best of the action is with Clara as she and Jac head to the basement in the lift after they see the couple take something wrapped in a blanket into the lift.  Obviously it's the boy.  They enter the lift and a brown ooze come out of the control panel.  Clara touches it and as they head into the tunnels under hr flat, they find pods which she surmizes are growing and haven't fully formed yet.  But must be destroyed, as she uncovers herself in one of the pods.  The Doctor at this time also finds out that the invasion of London already took place a year ago and so Clara is already taken over.  She laughs as she takes out the traitors in the tunnel, including Jac.  Then heads to the coast.  The Doctor finds out his plane's not going to land, as he tells her on the phone to head to the TARDIS and save herself and you know how he wants her to be safe by the urgency of his voice.  Clara fires a missile. Now she's going by the name of Bonnie.

OH no, I suppose  in some ways that means that Clara is already dead is she, which means that there would be two of her anyway, but it appears this one's a rebellious version.  Osgood is a hybrid and thus displays the perfect model of the Treaty.  Yet more mentions of the hybrid in a continuation of Davros mentioning them at the opening of the series. Does this hybrid talk bode well for Clara then? Doubt it since she's supposedly dead, along with Kate and Jac. 

The Doctor resorting to using the sonic sunglasses to free Osgood from her shackles.  The Osgoods wearing Doctor Four's scarf,  Eleven's bowtie and Doctor Seven's tank top.  Clara asking if  he really referred to himself as "Doctor Disco."

The Zygons appearing all the way back in 1975 Terror of the Zygons with Tom Baker.  The Doctor here referring to them as "blobs."   

Downton Abbey Series 6 Episode 6 Review

                                            
The Dowager (Maggie Smith) and Isobel (Penelope Wilton) discuss the events of the last episode and the hospital reforms over tea, so it's still possible for them to do so and be civil with the Dowager stressing how important it is for them to have the hospital remain open.  Even if it will be open for emergencies such as Robert's (Hugh Bonneville).  There was a meeting about it and it appears Dr Clarkson (David Robb) was also there, with the Dowager knowing he's turned to the other side.  She also asks Isobel about Lord Merton (Douglas Reith) and whether her feelings for him have changed, looking ta her closely when she says they haven't.

It's been decided that Cora (Elizabeth McGovern) will be the new president of the hospital taking over the role from the Dowager who won't be pleased when she finds out and Cora says she's going to accept it.  They also want to keep Isobel on as almoner.  Cora tells Robert but they decide to keep it secret until The Dowager gets their letter.  Mary (Michelle Dockery) decides to open Downton to the public for charity with ticket sales going to the hospital.  Which they object to as they can't understand what anyone would want to see in their home, including being interested in how they live. Which is just what they do want to see, how they live and the servants and everything else they're not used to.

The staff also ask why they would want to visit and Molesley (Kevin Doyle) says the same thing cos they want to see how the rich live, though not in so many words.  Also Bates (Brendan Coyle) doesn't like it and he wouldn't want to snoop in other peoples' houses.  Thomas (Rob James-Collier) asks and he's just dealt with abruptly by Carson (Jim Carter).  Baxter (Raquel Cassidy) gets a letter from Colye who got ten years asking her to visit him and Molesley thinks she should just ignore it.  Molesley is asked to sit a test too by the headmaster of the school as he would like his help and thinks he'll be good since he believes in the education system.  He can sit his test when Daisy (Sophie McShera) sits her six exam papers.

Daisy is very uppity lately especially as she doesn't give Mrs Patmore (Lesley Nichol)  the letter from from Mr Mason (Paul Copley) to thank her and Mrs Patmore finds it open and in the bin.  Daisy making excuses like she couldn't find where she put it but it ended up in the bin opened all by itself! She's also very vocal when Mr Mason brings Mrs Patmore a basket of vegetables from the farm to thank her.  Mrs Hughes (Phyllis Logan) telling her this behaviour's uncalled for.  What's her problem now, she wants to be the one in the limelight all the time and help him.  Daisy's all high and mighty these days.  Mrs Patmore's house is ready for renting and her niece will run it.  She's even installed a telephone and will be advertizing in the papers.  Oh, high and mighty too.  Ha.

Edith (Laura Carmichael) tells Branson (Allen Leech) Bertie (Harry Hadden-Paton) will be coming down so she may as well get some advice from him for the open day.  With more snide remarks from Mary, who's still on her newfound quest to find out about Marigold.  She even asks Branson if he knows anything and later Anna (Joanne Froggatt) almost gives it away, when they talk about Thomas being good with the children and also with Marigold too, Anna saying it's cos they're all... and then stops.  Still leaving Mary intrigued and nosing for more and that Anna was going to say something else.  Anna having to go down to London again cos she's been having a few problems.  Bates wants to pay the bills cos he has money saved and doesn't really want any handout from Mary.  He tells Mary this an she still wants to insist when Branson tells her it's his pride even if she is being kind.

Carson was so irritable, sometimes have to ask what Mrs Hughes saw in him?  He treats her as a servant more than a wife and not even his equal, which would be too much to ask from a man like Carson ,set in his ways!  He even has the nerve to tell Mrs Hughes that she may need some pointers from Mrs Patmore on cooking and he feels like having dinner at the cottage.  'Of course my lord, whatever you wish my lord!'  Huh, Carson acting all lardy dah and lord of the manor.  She later serves up salmon which he doesn't like cos there's no lemon and no horseradish either mixed with sour cream and he didn't even let Mrs Hughes eat a mouthful before casting it aside.  Why doesn't he just eat at the house or better, yet cook for himself.  Ha.  That'd be a sight.

Mrs Patmore overhears Thomas and Andy (Michael Fox) planning to meet in his room in the night and gets the wrong idea.  She later tells Carson who catches Andy coming out of his room, when looking for his own walking stick which he left behind.  Carson has a word with Thomas and he tells him nothing happened and his word still isn't good enough after the number of years he's been here. Robert and Carson still conspiring to get him gone from the house in order to save money.  Mary says he's good with the children and Robert says he is looking for alternative employment.  Carson also tells Thomas about being sacked and he can't see why he has to go, Carson and his high notions again, placing value on the importance of his own job as a butler.  Well that's why he was trying to sneak Robert in some wine when he knows he shouldn't be drinking.  Robert is tempted but then stops.  Another reason why Carson doesn't have any wine at dinner cos, "my lord is abstaining."  Oh lord can't take much of his attitude anymore.  Yet he has the audacity to call her, "my beautiful wife." Well treat her like your wife then!

Mary invites herself to London and to the dinner party which Evelyn (Brendan Patricks) has organized and wants Henry (Matthew Goode) to be surprised when he sees her, which he is.  She also convinces Branson to come too.  They decide to go to Brooklyn for the races and Branson will go if she goes.  Henry already knows about Matthew and how he died and there's a sudden downpour when they're walking home and he lets slip that as his wife she doesn't have to be there, but he would want her to support him, also stealing a sudden kiss, which wouldn't be surprising if Mary wanted that all along.  Yet she still berated Edith over Bertie, calling him boring.  More legal London filming this episode with Inner temple being used this time round and Middle Temple Lane.  They have the right buildings for period pieces.  They kept filming there quiet.  Who knew?

                                  
Bertie says they should organize groups of ten in a party and talk about the history of the place, which none of them know.  They can't let tem just run riot and Carson's concerned about sticky fingers taking things!  When questions are asked they don't really know the answers, not Mary, Edith or Cora. But seems Molesley does.  The Dowager also seems to know a little like saying the fourth Earl was always in the library and loved his women and drink.  She's livid and doesn't care who knows it confronting Cora about becoming the new president and if Robert knew as well when she came to visit.  Cora tries to explain later but she doesn't want to know.  She doesn't want to see Cora's face.  Molesley is happy about what he's just seen and tells Mrs Patmore about their fight.

Branson thinks they can  open the house on a regular basis and make money for the house since their costs are still high and it would help, especially after realzing they made a huge amount from one day.  Robert mentioning the boy who sneaked into his room asking questions about the big house and why can't they get "a comfy one."  Running off when Molesley finds him there.  That's why Carson needed his stick, so he could attack anyone caught pilfering.  Thomas later asks if he's going to use the stick on him when he talks to him.  With his treatment it's no shock that Thomas finally breaks and sits crying alone.  No one wants to know him, or be his friend aside from Baxter and you'd think after all this time people would see that he's changed and certainly isn't the same Thomas we saw back in season 1 and later seasons.  Mrs Patmore was out of order telling Carson about him especially since he told her he just wants to be friends with Andy and nothing more.. .So would there have been talk if he'd had a woman in his room?  Double standards just like Jimmy had a woman and none of the staff found about it.

Two more episodes and it's over and we know where it's all headed.  There'll be revelations about Marigold, then Edith hasn't told Bertie about her even if she did introduce him to the children in the nursery.  Cora thinks she should have told him, but Robert says it's up to her.  Cora also wants to take on the job as president and have something to do now her daughters don't need her anymore.  Seems he doesn't want Cora doing anything either like Isobel does.  Lord Merton introduces his daughter in law, Amelia Cruikshank (Phoebe Sparrow) and says that Isobel has nothing to worry about as long as she's around, hinting she can now be with him.  However that's not what Isobel really wants anymore.
Be warned there's trouble at the race next week with another horrific occurrence.

Doctor Who 9.6 "The Woman Who Lived" Review

                                             
Opinion was divided with this episode and I have to ask from the outset what all the fuss was about. It's not it's a new premise or storyline which hasn't been done before.  The way was this episode was written as if it's gearing us up for Ashildr (Maisie Williams) who now calls herself "Me" was gearing up to be the Doctor's (Peter Capaldi) new companion.  Hope not.  She to me, just seemed like an inferior version of Clara (Jenna Coleman).  In her mannerisms, her speech and what she says to him. Then with her references to Clara not always being around and she'll die on him, asking how many companions he's lost.  Ashildr's like him, he's lived a very long time.

The Doctor meets her as a highwayman, known as "the Knightmare" and years of practice makes her speak like a man now, or rather project her voice like a man.  He finds her robbing a coach and he's there cos he's in search of something with his new gadget in tow.  He locates it in the chest but they drive off before he can retrieve it.  She recalls him and takes him back to her big house.  Recalling the stories of her life through the years in journals, cos she doesn't want to remember, but thye are a reminder, which he reads.  She knows where the couple live and will take him there later so he can recover what he's looking for.  Her journals tell of how she met someone, he grew old and died, had children lost three in the plague, doesn't want anymore.  As if we were meant to shed tears for her. Me is closed off from the world and the pain of watching everyone die.  Much like the Doctor.  But she's not the Doctor.  People here are like smoke" they blow away in the moment."  How she also refers to Clara.  Who doesn't appear in this episode until the end.  Well that was a waste.

She takes him to the house before seeing her secret 'friend' in the bushes who she wants to help, a lion no less, another alien,  The Doctor retrieves the eye of Hades jewel and she says she wants to come with him.  Showing him the spare chip he gave her and how she hasn't used it yet as she hasn't found anyone.  Well what about the old man, her lover, she used to visit as a ghost, at least he thought she was a ghost.  Wasn't he worthy enough.  On the way back she's met by Sam the Quick (Rufus Hound).  Cue pointless fight scene as they try and outdo each other.

The lion is from another planet and needs the eye to open up a portal to return home.  The Doctor wasn't told about this cos he knew they had some other dastardly plan.  He warns her against working with him, she can't trust him, but he doesn't listen.  They need someone to die in order for the portal to open and she thinks it will be Clayton (Struan Rodger) (He voiced the Face of Boe) her old, loyal butler.  Tying the Doctor up she leaves for Tyburn after hearing Sam is going to be hanged.  The Doctor manages to bribe the soldiers with her money and heads there too on a horse!

The Doctor saves Sam who tells numerous jokes to prolong his life and shows he has a pardon from Cromwell himself.  Ashildr takes the eye and places it onto his heart opening the portal and allowing his ships through, as they attack everyone.  She says she cares about the people and wants to stop it, bringing back Sam is the only way to do this, so she uses the chip and the portal closes.  The Doctor talks to her of the mayflies, the companions, who know that life is fleeting.  He needs Clara and the other companions remind him of why he's here.  Though Sam is immortal now, how will he deal with it in the future.  The Doctor also name drops Jack Harkness as being immortal as well and was that a reference for the future too, that she'll meet him soon enough.

Clara returns saying Audrey has sent him a selfie cos he helped her with a project and she got an A. She shows it to him and he immediately sees Ashildr in the crowd at the back.  Which Clara didn't see but then he wasn't looking.  Clara asks if he missed her and hugs him.  "I've missed you Clara Oswald," he tells her.  There's something ominous in his voice when he says that.  Is something happening to her soon, it does appear he knows something we will have to wait for.  Especially when she says, "I'm not going anywhere."  DO we really need another companion dying?  The Doctor was playing Chris Issak's Blue Hotel on the guitar this time.  Very melancholic as far as Clara is concerned.

Leandro (Ariyon Bakare) was out of Beauty and The Beast it appeared but heartless.  People have enjoyed this episode and raved about it, I just didn't see the appeal of Ashildr, I'm not sorry for saying that, it's my opinion, or the appeal of her as a future companion, if that's the case.  I'm picky.  Just cos she was in Game of Thrones, never watched it, never will, don't have to agree with everything everyone says about her. As The Woman Who Lived she just wasn't all that interesting to me.