It's amazing what a bit of sleep will do. Except for the part where I only slept till 8am and wanted to sleep till 10, but I feel more awake this morning, even though it's cloudy and I haven't opened the curtains and haven't seen the sun yet.

I rewatched the Doctor Who thing from last night. I was most amazed to find it was 8 minutes long - it felt about 2!

There are still large parts of it I dislike. The Hotel Babylon thing, which was probably about the same length, was clearly poking fun at itself, whereas the Doctor Who one felt like it couldn't decide whether to poke fun or be serious and it's ended up being a bit of both and neither and doesn't work. And I dislike the Confidential where they said that Peter Davison was the first of the modern Doctors, because you could pretty much define that to be any of them.

But, I did like:

• Belgium
• Describing the console room as having a desktop theme
• The Master's beard being described as rubbish
• The Cloister Bell - it's such a great harbinger of doom
• That at the start when they say the world's only got 5 minutes left, it really means 5 minutes of real time
• How it fits between the end of Last of the Time Lords and the epilogue

I didn't watch it quite so closely, so the Fifth Doctor felt better. The trouble is that in the original episodes he's Tristan and now he's just Peter Davison. It's only in the audios that I can believe he's the Doctor.

I did really hate:

• wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey - that joke only works once and not with Five
• A black hole and supernova at the same time. I can suspend my disbelief for some science but there's a limit and that's over it. The one leads to the other - they can't possibly be simultaneous
• Ten going 'You're my Doctor'. I can sort of see Ten loving his past selves rather than hating them, but that was just OTT

I've seen lots of people talk about it this morning on my RSS Feeds (I think I'm the only person who didn't love it) but only one person mentioned giving any money. So if you bothered to take the time to watch it on TV, or go to the website to watch it, then you'll know where to go and give some money to help disadvantaged children in Britain.

I ache this morning, but collecting money yesterday morning was still the best part of the day.

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