A lovely story about My First Filling

You know that thing where you're dreading something and then it turns out that it wasn't anywhere near as awful as what you thought it would be? Today's dentist thing was NOT ONE OF THOSE. Mostly I wanted to yell, "OMG YOU ARE TRYING TO STEAL ALL MY TEETH, SNEAKY TEETH STEALER." But I didn't, because I have a modicum of self-control. And dignity.

But DRILLING. DRILLING IN MY MOUTH. I never want another filling again. NO MORE SUGAR. ALL THE SUGAR IS BAD. Farewell, lovely cakes! And biscuits and chocolate and puddings! YOU ARE DEAD TO ME NOW.*

(There was a thing on the news a few days ago about how pain is lessened when you look at what's going on, and my personal experience agrees - I used to be rubbish with regular, outside your mouth, injections but am okay now, so long as I watch - but you can't exactly watch what's going on inside your mouth without some sort of clever and impractical mirror or camera set-up therefore teeth should be magic and never go wrong ever.)

So, yes, hurrah for modern dentistry, but I am rub and squeamish and took two injections of whatever the numbing your mouth stuff was and it may have taken a smidgen of coaxing to get me to open my mouth and stay still due to the GIANT NEEDLE floating around my peripheral vision.

OH WELL. Is over now. I need never worry about it again. UNTIL THE NEXT TIME.

*Admittedly this filling was necessitated by wisdom teeth at rubbish angles blocking other teeth, but preventative measures and all that.

i am not thinking about my tooth

Here are some things I've decided whilst vidding; they are not about vidding, they are about Doctor Who:

• Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead is way better than I remember. Enjoyed it before; tots love it now. I don't know if that's because the added River canon makes it shinier or looking at a single season four ep disguises how tired the writing was, or it's just that when I think of the Ten era, I default to Year of Shit Specials, and, actually, mostly it was better than that.
  
  
• And Ten is way less emo in SitL/FotD than he is in my head. Again, I think those bloody Specials really just made everything seem a lot worse than it actually was. THEY HAVE MUCH TO ANSWER FOR. And he's not terribly polite but his jerk levels are way below Three's regular jerkitude.
  
  
• So much love at River for the bit where Ten is all, "Yeah, well are you going to put the lives of all these people above your PRIDE?" for the dude is being unhelpful due to Ten and Donna not signing forms, and River asks, "Are you?" because if he'd just sign the form, the dude would help.
  
  
• I really, really want to know the thinking behind Zoe vs The Karkus. "We're short on runtime, again; quick, let us write a fight scene! With Zoe! Against a superhero twice her size! And have the Doctor flail around uselessly! Brilliant!" Which it is, but I still wonder if they didn't just catch an episode of The Avengers and think, "heh, Zoe's in a catsuit, that totally means she can be Mrs Peel for this scene."
  
  
• Tegan and Nyssa's reaction to Other People Being Daft is AWESOME. They look at each other with silent expressions of "omg, why is everyone else just rub?" It is great. They do it a lot. You know when they don't do this? Four To Doomsday. Why? Because FtD is RUBBISH.
  
  
• I really, really hate FtD. It may be my most hated ep of classic - at least Planet of the Spiders has a great last scene - and it's particularly awful cause it backtracks horribly on the lovely stuff in Castrovalva. Castrovalva is amazing. I love fictional people deciding they're real.
  
  
• Timelash is so much better than FtD. If only for the Six & Peri bitching. Also the Doctor being ridic keen on taking her to romantic planets.
  
  
• I kind of love The Lazarus Experiment. I blame the fact it's basically a fifties B-movie horror script.
  
  
• I can't believe they burned Power of the Daleks. I just can't. What a horrid thing to do.
  
  
• Matt Smith is liken magic. Also, I found a bit where he is attractive, which was weird. It's Time of Angels when he's in the door of the TARDIS, holding out his hand to catch River. HIS FACE. It is all beautiful and intense.
  
  
• Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone I think is my favourite of season five. I suspect I might say that about most episode whilst I'm watching, but never mind. The story's smashing, the Angels are bloody scary, what happens to Amy actually frightens me in the manner of Blink, or Sutekh's apparition in the TARDIS, or MELTING FACES. (Okay, not melting faces, nothing is as scary as melting faces.) But mostly it's the character dynamics between Eleventy, Amy and River: Amy's reaction to River, River's protectiveness of Amy, the way Eleventy thaws towards River, River's trust in the Doctor even if he's mad, how she trusts him completely to get them out of impossible situations, but knows she's right about the teleport and ignores him. The way it's played just makes me ridiculously happy. Also, they all make lolarious faces at various points and that is great.
  
  
• No, really, why have we got no Power of the Daleks? I feel sad now. Also, my tooth hurts.