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Am still reading 'About Time'. Later I will be watching more Doctor Who, because I finally got the The Beginning box set, so I can watch the first episode.

For many series it would be weird to not have seen the start and still consider yourself a fan.
For Doctor Who, not so much.

The Dalek timeline in this book bugs me. It assumes that there's only one unaltered history that the characters bounce around in. The BBC site assume that when the Doctor sets out to change history he actually does it, in Genesis, and after that there's a whole different 2nd history. And then there's the Time War, and all bets are off. It's a useful sort of technique - retcon reboots like I'm used to from DC comics. Inasmuch as DW even aspired to continuity anyway.

New Series seems to pop back to the same corners of future-history quite regular. We get follow up on stuff. Which I like.

Scale, variety, the whole alien-ness of actual aliens... hmmm.

Other thing I find when I read more - no matter what I think of, Doctor Who has done it already. Including aliens using actual sign language.

Which is pretty cool really.

... it's still cool seeing the DW book on my stack of Film Theory library books. :)

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Oh bugger
there was somewhere I was supposed to be at 2pm today.
A fun thing, but still... *headdesk*

... hang on, it's employee's job to remember these things also. It was on the Plan. Planning it was why we went out on the 1st Wednesday of the month, so it was a definite Plan. Shall I be annoyed? Hmmm. Actually, I can't remember if I said at any time since then it was a Plan, so, maybe it got lost when I went vague because of funeral.

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You ever have one of those days where you're just embarrassed?
Not about, just a kind of low level blush that grounds itself through thinking about just about anything at all.

... I don't think Jack Harkness has had a day like that in his entire life.

I think Tosh probably has them all the time. Quietly. And buries herself in work.

Owen, if he had them, would respond by getting really *extra* sarcastic and blaming the rest of the universe.

Gwen would grin nervously and find someone else's problem to care about instead.

Ianto... you know, he could go either way. You think he's this quiet sort of blushy person, but then he dates *Jack*, so, well, quite possibly it wears out or something. But if he was feeling blushy that day he'd just do the same things as always, with coffee.