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I was supposed to be at the creative writing class at 1030
which was, er, about three hours ago
I just woke up.

I had a bunch of dreams including ones about this guy that was half starfish and had kind of a beak in the middle. He left tracks of sucker marks all over me when he unpeeled.
My dreams are freaky in new and disturbing ways.

There was also the bit about the tsunami, where an island (or possibly Ireland) fell apart and we had to run away up a mountain. There was a handy mountain on the beach, and we could get up it real fast. But then there was waking up in a hotel and thinking the other part was just a dream, until I found the sucker tracks, and then figuring I'd dropped into an alternate universe in my sleep. And then the hotel got hit by a tsunami and it went all through the windows and was quite spectacular. I could make an air bubble because of the deal I'd made with sea god suckers guy. So I didn't get squished.

And then I woke up again.

Days with too many wakings up get very confusing.

This time I'm in the expected bed, there is no evidence of starfish anywhere, and I'm pretty sure I'm not going to get swept away by monster waves.

But YOU NEVER KNOW.

Genesis of the Daleks

Watched Genesis of the Daleks.
It is very, very good.
Moral dilemmas! Ethics! Squishy goopy inside-of-Daleks! Things going boom! And also, hat and scarf! Which of course are added value to any episode.

I like that it was Sarah Jane that was all 'Dalek go boom yaay!'
She's fun. Leading escapes and randomly changing clothes to look all military for the kaboom part.
But what is with those heels? I think even her army boots had two inch heels on! Plain daft, it is.

Though if the Doctor picked up a companion from an era when *men* wore heels like that, that would be plain amusing.


I've now got 2 DVDs with Harry in, and I still have no idea what he's like. He doesn't seem to exist much. Bit sad really.



I find myself randomly missing Jack. The man surely has personality.
I should probably actually buy the DVD box set.
I always get stuck because (a) much money and (b) I spent the first half of the season complaining continuously, so why do I want to buy it? But if I buy the individual discs and skip the eps I don't so much like, I end up with incomplete collection, and also a lack of extras. Dilemma!



Also, I have Tru Calling, SeaQuest, and Blakes 7 season 4, as well as the Sharpe box set (which is now incomplete cause they made another one) and a random assortment of movies to watch before I should buy any new DVDs.
Also also, Farscape. I've had all the discs for ages, but some of them remain wrapped, and there's a better than even chance they include episodes I slept through on TV.
So really buying new DVDs is silly.
Yet I continue to do so...



It is sort of strange bouncing back and forward between late 70s SF and the new series. It isn't just the FX that change. In fact, often I don't find that an improvement. You can do a whole lot with clingfilm, bubble wrap, hair gel and food coloring, especially if you add a bit of glowy light to it. What the monsters look like is never the point of the story for me. I do realise that your average modern audience looks at the clingfilm blobs and giggles and turns off the TV, but personally I find them plenty creepy enough if the story sets them up to be. Lovely CGI werewolves with realistic fur might be beautiful, but it needs a good plot and some characters to give it any whammy.
And the plot and characters is where the differences I actually notice live. They're so much more... well, there's the kissing, obviously. B7 has kissing. But it isn't the same at all. There's all this squishy emotion happening all the time.
In Genesis of the Daleks, the Doctor thinks he's just blown up Sarah Jane and Harry. Obviously this is Bad. And we see that he feels bad. But how it is presented is so very different.

I'm not really putting useful words around it though, so I'll wander off again.


I should write some kind of con report. Except the bits I mostly remember are the party bits. And the stuff that is really difficult to convey via writing afterwards, like anything Jonathan Woodward had anything to do with. I mean the hypnotism and singing and suchlike were hilarious at the time, but to write down? Not so very.
Shall try and find other people con reports. Surely someone else writes them...