I've been getting more and more tense and wound up waiting for a particular thing to happen. A particular thing that is due to happen within hours now.

With every day that has passed over the last couple of weeks, as it creeps closer and closer, I've expected a certain courtesy to precede that thing.

I can't sleep but for waiting for that courtesy. And, looking at the clock, I'm not going to get that courtesy before the thing happens.

Which means, me being all tense and paranoid, that I worry that something has gone wrong with the thing and that it might not happen... Even though all the prior evidence is against that interpretation.

And I know that when the thing happens, I'll be ecstatic, and probably feel guilty about being annoyed about the little courtesy beforehand not happening.

And it's doubly frustrating that I can't tell you what I'm talking about until the thing happens. Assuming it does. If it doesn't, yet, I'll go bananas!

Interesting change of pace - a tiny cast in one room - but fabulous, and great to see all three of the league back together!

8/10 again. Still great - I do wonder if ( cut for a totally nonspecific semi-spoiler that everybody seems to be harrassing me about )

Gratuitous X Files knockoff as well, when they thought of using a vaccination as a cover story for alien abductions... Really noticed the score - in a good way - for the first time as well. Will have to get the soundtrack.

And the DVD when it comes out on Monday, even though I haven't got season 2 yet.

Another 9/10 - real edge-of-the-seat stuff just from Peter Capaldi talking to some smoke in a fish tank!

This continues to be what Torchwood should have been all along.

8/10 - not quite as great as yesterday's RTD masterpiece, but still keeping the quality way higher than previously, and with a good mystery going.

Loses a bit for the hit-woman being a bit of a rubbish actress (clearly going for the Claudia Black/Aeryn Sun mood and totally missing), ( two tiny spoilers that are pretty obvious from there being three more episodes anyway ) But if that's the worst this season has to offer, it's going to end up a classic.

I've managed to remain spoiler-free and can't wait to find out what the 456 are and what they want...

For "Reservoir Ferengi"

A bottle of Jim Beam is in order...

Better than anything in the previous two seasons - and worked bloody well as a "first episode" for all those new BBC1 viewers as well.

9/10 - but only because I hope to be able to score some later episodes higher.

Having failed the UK citizenship test, with a score of 33%

http://www.ukcitizenshiptest.co.uk/

Well, that's something I've never done during Top Gear before - changed channels to look at ceefax while a boringly wittering twat went on and on and on and on and on and on and on in the apparent over-enthusiatic belief that he was being amusing and/or interesting.

I've never seen this Michael McIntyre bloke in anything before. And now I'm going to make damn sure I never do again.

Either Happy Independence Day, or don't come crying back to us, depending on your mood.