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beccaelizabethmy hand hurts. handwriting sucks. I don't know why I started handwriting my DW notes. No, wait, I do, because I was eating soup at the time and couldn't get my laptop out. That's a suck reason to continue a habit that leaves my hand hurting. Except the habit continues to include eating while watching Doctor Who, so the problem continues to apply.
puzzler.
I made notes on The Doctor's Wife. There's two pages of them but they boil down to "The TARDIS is a woman! yaays! And she's In Charge and does choosing where to go and tells him off and has all the literal power! more yaays! And... it's still kind of a problem to call her Sexy Thing, and that she's more literally a thing than usually applies to that phrase, and it makes it retroactively unfortunate when he hits the console. But lady TARDIS that tells him off, yaays!"
There's not much about Amy or Rory because mostly they run and run some more and maybe scream. Boys yell, girls screams. Blah.
3 for 3 stories where Rory says "I'm a nurse" He should just get the t-shirt, like the stag night shirt, in case anyone was confused about his role then.
There's also bits with the Doctor being scary and angry and some more scary and sending a woman (the TARDIS this time) to go kill stuff for him (instead of River last time).
So that's kind of building up to Demon's Run.
Guilty angry scary man. Give hope and take it away, run!
Doctor not much with the healing people.
Am also reading theory books. Triumph of a Time Lord I've got as far as checking the bibliography (read it read it own it read it hmmm maybe the librarian can get hold of that one but mostly read it) and reading the introduction. It seems unlikely to be specifically helpful to a focus on gender in Moffatt's era. But it's a lot more readable than some of the other stuff.
Science Fiction Audiences keeps either being about Star Trek or repeating stuff from The Unfolding Text that was boring in the first place. I mean, they found one episode where the Doctor props up a Queen and stops some rebel workers, but that doesn't mean that's what the Doctor on the whole does. Sometimes he does, sometimes he don't.
That's the thing with TV, there's a lot of it.
A lot a lot of it.
Especially of Doctor Who.
All the books keep referring back to the same movies (Alien, Aliens, Terminator, Terminator 2, blah blah blah). I think it's because movies you can actually watch all of. I've been watching an episode almost every day and taking notes and I'm still not up to A Good Man Goes to War and then there'll be a ton of episodes after it as well before we finish with Amy and Rory and River still isn't finished and the Doctor ... well there's never any seeing all of the Doctor.
Do you think it's theoretically possible to have seen all the things and heard all the things and read all the books and read all the comics? It feels impossible, but then it feels impossible to read all the fanfic until I'm actually poking around trying to find new things to read.
Not so much new Doctor Who things though, I've barely read any of those, and them usually because they turn up on my f-list.
There's bits about Audiences that are all about fans. Like about reading what fans write on forums or on LJ and treating it just as serious as the Serious Academia. Which it is, just with less Foucault, usually.
I can therefore quote a theory dude pointing out this is Serious Thinkings and then go poking around on DW and LJ for what other people think of A Good Man Goes to War specifically and gender in the TARDIS in general.
... and again, there's never any reading all of that.
On the one hand I could read all the gender stuff in the library and just keep going and going and going. On the other everyone keeps citing the same people, who I have read, and the same books about science fiction, which I have read, and neither what I've read nor the remaining books seem to be specifically relevant to gender on television or gender in science fiction let alone both.
All the books, none the finding things.
Boo.
I'd like to be better at that part.
By Thursday I'm planning to have a new list of to-read to give to the librarian, books I can't find in any of the libraries I can physically get to. Then I give them 50p for each title and they magic them from afar.
Librarians have awesome powers.
I should also ask for librarian advice.
I'll get tutor advice too.
I'm bored and my hand hurts and also quite a lot of my arm.
I might have to take a day off to not use my writing hand.
Boo.
... I knew that, that's why I have a computer for college, so this is just me being an idiot.
double boo.
puzzler.
I made notes on The Doctor's Wife. There's two pages of them but they boil down to "The TARDIS is a woman! yaays! And she's In Charge and does choosing where to go and tells him off and has all the literal power! more yaays! And... it's still kind of a problem to call her Sexy Thing, and that she's more literally a thing than usually applies to that phrase, and it makes it retroactively unfortunate when he hits the console. But lady TARDIS that tells him off, yaays!"
There's not much about Amy or Rory because mostly they run and run some more and maybe scream. Boys yell, girls screams. Blah.
3 for 3 stories where Rory says "I'm a nurse" He should just get the t-shirt, like the stag night shirt, in case anyone was confused about his role then.
There's also bits with the Doctor being scary and angry and some more scary and sending a woman (the TARDIS this time) to go kill stuff for him (instead of River last time).
So that's kind of building up to Demon's Run.
Guilty angry scary man. Give hope and take it away, run!
Doctor not much with the healing people.
Am also reading theory books. Triumph of a Time Lord I've got as far as checking the bibliography (read it read it own it read it hmmm maybe the librarian can get hold of that one but mostly read it) and reading the introduction. It seems unlikely to be specifically helpful to a focus on gender in Moffatt's era. But it's a lot more readable than some of the other stuff.
Science Fiction Audiences keeps either being about Star Trek or repeating stuff from The Unfolding Text that was boring in the first place. I mean, they found one episode where the Doctor props up a Queen and stops some rebel workers, but that doesn't mean that's what the Doctor on the whole does. Sometimes he does, sometimes he don't.
That's the thing with TV, there's a lot of it.
A lot a lot of it.
Especially of Doctor Who.
All the books keep referring back to the same movies (Alien, Aliens, Terminator, Terminator 2, blah blah blah). I think it's because movies you can actually watch all of. I've been watching an episode almost every day and taking notes and I'm still not up to A Good Man Goes to War and then there'll be a ton of episodes after it as well before we finish with Amy and Rory and River still isn't finished and the Doctor ... well there's never any seeing all of the Doctor.
Do you think it's theoretically possible to have seen all the things and heard all the things and read all the books and read all the comics? It feels impossible, but then it feels impossible to read all the fanfic until I'm actually poking around trying to find new things to read.
Not so much new Doctor Who things though, I've barely read any of those, and them usually because they turn up on my f-list.
There's bits about Audiences that are all about fans. Like about reading what fans write on forums or on LJ and treating it just as serious as the Serious Academia. Which it is, just with less Foucault, usually.
I can therefore quote a theory dude pointing out this is Serious Thinkings and then go poking around on DW and LJ for what other people think of A Good Man Goes to War specifically and gender in the TARDIS in general.
... and again, there's never any reading all of that.
On the one hand I could read all the gender stuff in the library and just keep going and going and going. On the other everyone keeps citing the same people, who I have read, and the same books about science fiction, which I have read, and neither what I've read nor the remaining books seem to be specifically relevant to gender on television or gender in science fiction let alone both.
All the books, none the finding things.
Boo.
I'd like to be better at that part.
By Thursday I'm planning to have a new list of to-read to give to the librarian, books I can't find in any of the libraries I can physically get to. Then I give them 50p for each title and they magic them from afar.
Librarians have awesome powers.
I should also ask for librarian advice.
I'll get tutor advice too.
I'm bored and my hand hurts and also quite a lot of my arm.
I might have to take a day off to not use my writing hand.
Boo.
... I knew that, that's why I have a computer for college, so this is just me being an idiot.
double boo.