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Nightmares are annoying. Especially the ones with no plot. Dream of being locked in a house with stripy wallpaper and the stripe bars start stretching across the ceiling? Well now you get to wake up in a panic and feel cranky for ages.

The other one where a bird tried to peck through my head at least made sense.

*grump*



I listened to DW BFA Enemy of the Daleks the other day. Hex is really just bouncing from war to war, getting the huge moral questions and terror science along the way. Is it always like that and I just dont tend to listen to them all in a row? Or is Hex just, like, getting the nightmare version?

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Sometimes I feel like I'm listening/watching/reading the wrong genres. F&SF shouldnt necessarily default to solving problems with violence, but I have ever so many stories around which are about cathartic violence once an episode or the fun of seeing someone's whole life ruined.

I find lately I'm going back over plots in my head and being like, okay, but at what point could we do something different so we save Everyone instead?

Daleks are not a save Everyone plot. If a Dalek is into the idea of being saved other Daleks exterminate them, so we still have the Archetype Of Exterminate to blow up in the next story.



But a lot of people need help to even see there is a way out.

I am less and less a fan of the kind of cyclical storytelling that denies the possibility of growth
because they need a bad guy
and this one is always popular.



Just tired I guess.