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You could call it a total failure of self-control.
But I like to think of it as a triumph in the legal acquisition of British TV on DVD.
The thing is, okay, I was all "Self, it is time you got some Classic Who on DVD" and "Oooh, Five is pretty" and "Hey, what about that Turlough" and "Oh look my local B&N has The Black Guardian Trilogy in stock and I have to go to the mall anyway to buy clothes and dot dot dot."
And, okay, look! I was good! I did not also pick up Logopolis and Castrovalva! I left those for another time!
...But somebody had stuck the box set of the Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries in the middle of the Doctor Who and you know what movies the Internet Fairies really genuinely do not seem to be able to help me with? Yeah. Peter and Harriet, that's what.
Soooo I bought them both and now I have lots of lovely British people to watch on my telly this weekend.
Also, Moleskine now makes notebooks in a lovely dark red. I AM ONLY HUMAN OKAY.
The thing is, okay, I was all "Self, it is time you got some Classic Who on DVD" and "Oooh, Five is pretty" and "Hey, what about that Turlough" and "Oh look my local B&N has The Black Guardian Trilogy in stock and I have to go to the mall anyway to buy clothes and dot dot dot."
And, okay, look! I was good! I did not also pick up Logopolis and Castrovalva! I left those for another time!
...But somebody had stuck the box set of the Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries in the middle of the Doctor Who and you know what movies the Internet Fairies really genuinely do not seem to be able to help me with? Yeah. Peter and Harriet, that's what.
Soooo I bought them both and now I have lots of lovely British people to watch on my telly this weekend.
Also, Moleskine now makes notebooks in a lovely dark red. I AM ONLY HUMAN OKAY.
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I think they did as well as could be expected for Gaudy Night, considering most of the vital bits of the book take place in Harriet's head. It's hard to show someone rethinking 5 years' worth of assumptions.
Also, there were so many subplots, and all linked in some way, that I suspect the episode would make no sense at all to someone who hadn't read the books, because taking out so many subplots just about had to substantially undercut the support for the main plot.
I think it'd be rather like a friend-of-a-friend's reaction to reading "Gaudy Night" as her first Wimsey: she got the impression Peter was a supercillious, condescending jerk, and I can't say it's an unreasonable interpretation given just what you see of him in Gaudy Night.