Classic Who and homework

So far, I'm enjoying the 2nd Doctor far more than the 1st. Too bad so many of his eps are lost. I'm getting a big kick out of Jamie, and I'd love to have seen how he got on the TARDIS in the first place. And Zoe is a big improvement over the last few female Companions since Barbara. "Mind Robber" was particularly fun to watch. Weird, though, between a Master who isn't the Master and the "Captain Jack Harkaway" bit. *snicker*

Watching "Seeds of Death" tonight. Interesting-looking Martians. In fact, I'm looking forward to seeing the extras on "Waters of Mars" to see if the similarities are deliberate, especially after finding out that the writer for "Fires of Pompeii" deliberately referred back to "The Romans." I'm still not entirely clear why they had to use an antiquated rocket rather than the TARDIS for this particular mission, but it is an amusing change. Also, interesting that the Doctor doesn't deny repeated accusations of being human, yet this is the first time I recall seeing evidence of him surviving something a normal human can't: oxygen deprivation. No doubt due to that respiratory bypass system that keeps being mentioned in fic everywhere, though he was unconscious a good long while.

I've made some progress on the reading for next semester, though the new critical care text doesn't lend itself to the same approach that works on the med-surg text. Ironic that I'm doing more homework over the break than I did all last semester. They've done a great job of scaring the crap out of me about how intense 3rd semester is.