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beccaelizabethSurvived another day at college. Teacher had indeed noticed failure to hand in work. This is what I get from being the only not anonymous one. Was cheerful about it though. If I can stay awake this evening long enough to get the other computer out shall fix it.
... shall fix it tomorrow, likelier.
On the bus today: Big Finish Audio adventure 'The Rapture', with alleged 7 and Ace.
... I was giggling so much. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure it wasn't meant to be a comedy.
Writer workshop this weekend, PC suggested that you can write the rubbish version of a script first, where every character says exactly what they mean and tells you exactly why they're doing things. Then you can go back later and rewrite it so it's actually good.
This audio unfortunately missed out a crucial stage.
I bought it because it's the one with Ace's brother. Ace mentions she has a brother in one of the later ones with Hex, and they have a whole little brother relationship going, and I wondered what her brother is like and what she's like with him.
... he's a Christian SF geek who goes clubbing. Ace never knew he existed and he's been searching for her for years with a picture of her in his wallet.
... so that's what the boy of Mary Sue looks like...
Also Ace doesn't want anything to do with him. So if that has any bearing on her and Hex the word would be 'overcompensation'.
The giggles ran out by the end, when it turned out what started as being about drugs and dance and angels was actually about treating mentally ill people with a good being killed.
It's too bad to bother hating it with a fiery passion, but it's really very tiresome.
In conclusion: If you ever wondered about Ace's brother? Don't listen to this. You will learn he exists, and it's meant to be the big surprise reveal so if its your reason for listening in the first place nothing surprising happens on the first disc.
... or the second, come to think.
It's written by Joseph Lidster, in 2002. Good to know someone can improve that much.
Over the weekend I also listened to Circular Time and Jubilee.
both deserve their own entry, but both were four days ago now, so I'll probably not write much.
Circular Time was four little stories arranged by the time of year they happened in.
First bit had a twisty thing with bird shaped aliens. I'm not sure why the Doctor needed to be there, things would have worked out the same without him, but had Time Lords and a list of Regeneration politics that included gender and species and a Time Lord regeneration into a not human looking species. Which is one of those things you want to do, so listening to it is nice.
Next bit was... erm... coins! Arrest for accidental forgery for trying to spend alien money. Another one of those things you want to do. And then it got a bit odd with Newton turning up to yell at them. This one mostly got interrupted by announcements while I was changing trains, so it probably made more sense than it does in my head.
The one I can remember best is the autumn one, where either the Doctor plays cricket or Nyssa writes about the Doctor playing cricket or something in between. I rather liked it. Nothing very Doctor Who happens but it has a very Doctor Who look at ordinary things happening. Also there's lines I keep realising mean more than just making the plot go. And Nyssa decides not to stay with a bloke cause he's silly, I think. Is good.
Then the last section was *very* DW, fitting in to a few seconds in an episode, with guest evil laugh of Master. Was okay. Had the Doctor settled down with babies called Tegan and Adric, and Nyssa saved him with her psychic skillz. Or something. Um. Lets just say it wasn't one of the things I've felt the need to do to the Doctor.
The four fit together oddly. I can see the last two as belonging a bit but I'm not sure how the first two do at all. So *shrugs*.
But I liked it. That doesn't sound like I did. They were proper stories where interesting things happened that I mostly didn't expect.
Jubilee. The one you might have heard of cause Dalek was kind of based on it.
I was most interested in the elements that were not much like Dalek.
Also, Evelyn seems interesting. I haven't heard her before. Historian.
I'm not sure what to write about this one because what springs to mind seems the opposite of flattering: I'm not in a hurry to listen to it again.
But. That's because it worked really, really well. It was creepy and nasty and horrible and did I mention nasty? But in the ways that a story should be. And it played with the expectations of listeners and characters in great ways.
And then there were the dwarfs in the iron dalek suits, with bits chopped off so they'd fit. That was... I can't decide if it was a demonstration of how excessively and madly creepy the AU society had become or if it was just excessive and a bit mad. I think mostly the former. But it grates rather that they aren't characters so much as... they exist to make a horror moment, is all. Bothers me mostly because of patterns of portrayal of disability. But then again, the horror comes from the villain just treating people as parts to make his monsters work, which highlights the exact part of it that makes me uncomfortable and is probably on purpose. So. I have to think that bit from several angles, but I think it works.
Dalek had a lone Dalek in... okay, I admit I was about to type 'this universe'. Er, no. In the standard Doctor Who universe. And what happened with it was small scale, relatively speaking. Hundreds of random people died. But it was one to one with the Dalek and the Doctor at the end.
Jubilee is *big*. Has a whole AU and a massive great Dalek invasion.
It isn't subtle, but it follows through and pushes things as far as they'll go, and works really well.
The bit with the man in the wheelchair was in fact exactly what I was expecting, though I think I was supposed to be expecting someone else.
But the bits where the Doctor and his companion find the plucky resistance who want to overthrow the oppressive regime didn't work out as I expected at all. I only noticed I'd been expecting and reading into things when I realised I was wrong. Nice one.
So Jubilee is very good.
And I'm not sure I'm going to listen to it again because it worked quite thoroughly the first time.
Okay, had more to say than I thought.
Still need to do the eating and sleeping parts of life.
Did start to type up my notes from Redemption before class (most of the class had the start time wrong by a quarter hour, so there was a bit of time to fill. Which resulted in me typing my con notes into my REnaissance notes, but luckily Word makes that easy to fix.)
Is going to be very very slow. Am going to start with the bits about writing rather than the bits about the convention. Might end up sticking with 'Redemption, yaay!'
... shall fix it tomorrow, likelier.
On the bus today: Big Finish Audio adventure 'The Rapture', with alleged 7 and Ace.
... I was giggling so much. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure it wasn't meant to be a comedy.
Writer workshop this weekend, PC suggested that you can write the rubbish version of a script first, where every character says exactly what they mean and tells you exactly why they're doing things. Then you can go back later and rewrite it so it's actually good.
This audio unfortunately missed out a crucial stage.
I bought it because it's the one with Ace's brother. Ace mentions she has a brother in one of the later ones with Hex, and they have a whole little brother relationship going, and I wondered what her brother is like and what she's like with him.
... he's a Christian SF geek who goes clubbing. Ace never knew he existed and he's been searching for her for years with a picture of her in his wallet.
... so that's what the boy of Mary Sue looks like...
Also Ace doesn't want anything to do with him. So if that has any bearing on her and Hex the word would be 'overcompensation'.
The giggles ran out by the end, when it turned out what started as being about drugs and dance and angels was actually about treating mentally ill people with a good being killed.
It's too bad to bother hating it with a fiery passion, but it's really very tiresome.
In conclusion: If you ever wondered about Ace's brother? Don't listen to this. You will learn he exists, and it's meant to be the big surprise reveal so if its your reason for listening in the first place nothing surprising happens on the first disc.
... or the second, come to think.
It's written by Joseph Lidster, in 2002. Good to know someone can improve that much.
Over the weekend I also listened to Circular Time and Jubilee.
both deserve their own entry, but both were four days ago now, so I'll probably not write much.
Circular Time was four little stories arranged by the time of year they happened in.
First bit had a twisty thing with bird shaped aliens. I'm not sure why the Doctor needed to be there, things would have worked out the same without him, but had Time Lords and a list of Regeneration politics that included gender and species and a Time Lord regeneration into a not human looking species. Which is one of those things you want to do, so listening to it is nice.
Next bit was... erm... coins! Arrest for accidental forgery for trying to spend alien money. Another one of those things you want to do. And then it got a bit odd with Newton turning up to yell at them. This one mostly got interrupted by announcements while I was changing trains, so it probably made more sense than it does in my head.
The one I can remember best is the autumn one, where either the Doctor plays cricket or Nyssa writes about the Doctor playing cricket or something in between. I rather liked it. Nothing very Doctor Who happens but it has a very Doctor Who look at ordinary things happening. Also there's lines I keep realising mean more than just making the plot go. And Nyssa decides not to stay with a bloke cause he's silly, I think. Is good.
Then the last section was *very* DW, fitting in to a few seconds in an episode, with guest evil laugh of Master. Was okay. Had the Doctor settled down with babies called Tegan and Adric, and Nyssa saved him with her psychic skillz. Or something. Um. Lets just say it wasn't one of the things I've felt the need to do to the Doctor.
The four fit together oddly. I can see the last two as belonging a bit but I'm not sure how the first two do at all. So *shrugs*.
But I liked it. That doesn't sound like I did. They were proper stories where interesting things happened that I mostly didn't expect.
Jubilee. The one you might have heard of cause Dalek was kind of based on it.
I was most interested in the elements that were not much like Dalek.
Also, Evelyn seems interesting. I haven't heard her before. Historian.
I'm not sure what to write about this one because what springs to mind seems the opposite of flattering: I'm not in a hurry to listen to it again.
But. That's because it worked really, really well. It was creepy and nasty and horrible and did I mention nasty? But in the ways that a story should be. And it played with the expectations of listeners and characters in great ways.
And then there were the dwarfs in the iron dalek suits, with bits chopped off so they'd fit. That was... I can't decide if it was a demonstration of how excessively and madly creepy the AU society had become or if it was just excessive and a bit mad. I think mostly the former. But it grates rather that they aren't characters so much as... they exist to make a horror moment, is all. Bothers me mostly because of patterns of portrayal of disability. But then again, the horror comes from the villain just treating people as parts to make his monsters work, which highlights the exact part of it that makes me uncomfortable and is probably on purpose. So. I have to think that bit from several angles, but I think it works.
Dalek had a lone Dalek in... okay, I admit I was about to type 'this universe'. Er, no. In the standard Doctor Who universe. And what happened with it was small scale, relatively speaking. Hundreds of random people died. But it was one to one with the Dalek and the Doctor at the end.
Jubilee is *big*. Has a whole AU and a massive great Dalek invasion.
It isn't subtle, but it follows through and pushes things as far as they'll go, and works really well.
The bit with the man in the wheelchair was in fact exactly what I was expecting, though I think I was supposed to be expecting someone else.
But the bits where the Doctor and his companion find the plucky resistance who want to overthrow the oppressive regime didn't work out as I expected at all. I only noticed I'd been expecting and reading into things when I realised I was wrong. Nice one.
So Jubilee is very good.
And I'm not sure I'm going to listen to it again because it worked quite thoroughly the first time.
Okay, had more to say than I thought.
Still need to do the eating and sleeping parts of life.
Did start to type up my notes from Redemption before class (most of the class had the start time wrong by a quarter hour, so there was a bit of time to fill. Which resulted in me typing my con notes into my REnaissance notes, but luckily Word makes that easy to fix.)
Is going to be very very slow. Am going to start with the bits about writing rather than the bits about the convention. Might end up sticking with 'Redemption, yaay!'