Doctor Who - central oppositions of the season

So in class today we had to find the central oppositions, concerns, themes of two poems.
So when I went to sleep my brain applied this to Doctor Who so far this season. ( Read more... )

I don't know if I'm making sense or leaving out bits that would totally smash the theory or whatever. I just woke up thinking that stuff and typed it.
It's kind of fun.

... I'm clearly on the right degree course.

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Am thinking that thought processes, what seems obvious, get very much influenced by how you get to a text. In fandom, what fandoms you've previously been in.

Highlander -> Buffy -> Torchwood
gives me an interesting set of background mostly based on the idea that impossible is the only impossibility, and some people are remarkably less fragile than others.
I mean using a friend as a human shield might seem a bit mean, but using a vampire shield is just plain common sense.
Though body armour is better.

But if someone went, I don't know, CSI -> Torchwood, they're going to have a whole different set of ideas.



Sometimes I make family trees in my head of different shows, ones that have things in common. My brother does this with his DVD collection, and usually it results in arcane rearrangements. The only one mum ever figured out was when they were color coded.

But some of them are obvious. I mean Blakes 7 -> Firefly, with a side order of -> Farscape and maybe when it didn't suck -> Andromeda (except that had shinier politics).

And I can understand the Sentinel - Due South connection way more than I can figure how I got into Due South despite the ongoing lack of UFOs.

(It's the pretty mens really. Also the being completely insane.)

And some shows I only ever watched because someone at a convention said I should. Or everyone wandered off to write fic there. So the connection is more in the people than the texts. But the texts attracted those people.

So I wander around wondering what elements they're looking for.

... quite often it does come down to the pretty. But I hear there's pretty that has no F&SF elements at all. Yet never have I been much tempted to go seek it out.

Sharpe is about the closest to mundane TV I watch, and that was more Highlander -> Sharpe via swords. Or possibly just that Sharpe was on and everyone watched. Was a while back. But the swords remain interesting.

... I'm rambling.



What have you learned from your other fandoms that you bring to bear on Torchwood?

... reading practices, shared assumptions, fandom common sense ...

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I just realised, I've finished Intro Lit. Both halves. Done.

And also my first year at university.



*blinks as if a small nocturnal creature taken out into, well, the closest britain tends to get to sunlight*