7.5 and Snowmen
Mar. 29th, 2013 04:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethWatched more Doctor Who.
... honestly, it's what I did all the time when I wasn't studying it, hence the studying of it, so even when I can do anything, I do watching Doctor Who.
in 7.5 River was not happy with him. Like, he went for a kiss and she turned her head away; not happy. And her voice had edges and was less fun. Possibly this is because she was going to have to break her wrist but I was thinking on it and I think it was other stuff too. Like, I've been writing about how River gave up her lives for the Doctor and then went to university to study him and then went to prison to protect him. Professor Song got pardoned because the man she killed never existed. Like someone went around deleting himself from everything everywhere. I think she was unhappy about that. For one thing, he just deleted her academic speciality. But she is a Professor somewhere so she must have worked around that. Archaeology is maybe not fussed if you're studying kings, generals, Doctors, gods or monsters, as long as you know how to put all the evidence in a row? But for another, he does this after how long? She was in Stormcage how long? Maybe he could have done it quicker? Except no, because Byzantium, he couldn't twist his own past on purpose. What she says though is about getting older and hiding the damage because the Doctor doesn't like endings. That's a plausible interpretation of this episode, but she doesn't know he already knows her ending, and that was when he started liking her. He knows they'll run out of days though, maybe he doesn't like being reminded? It doesn't feel like it fits though. He doesn't like people growing away from him or the idea of going looking for them and finding their name in stone, it's not the same as not liking to see the damage, is it? Their relationship needs some fixing though, if she can think that. And he tried to fix it with glowy but it didn't work real well. But then by the end she seemed happy to travel with him. Except for that 'one psychopath per TARDIS' comment. I would like if they do not use that word, using mental health terms sloppily is annoying. Madman in a box isn't massively better but has a classic ring to it. I don't know though, I quite like that there's someone like me saving the world a lot, that's one reason I like the Doctor, he is not now and never has been neurotypical. One of the BBC audios is it that says that? BBC something. I could listen later.
ANYway... huh, lookit the long paragraph, academic habit is harder to read on the web. Paragraphs are tricksy. I been taught the trick to read lots of things quickly is read first and last lines of paragraphs, and if it's well written then they'll tell you what the point will be and what it was. I don't think I can write like that. I just tend to type thoughts until I realise I have two pages of one paragraph and then go back and hit return at points it doesn't break up a breath.
... I had a point. A Snowmen point... Ah! Erasing himself. The Doctor deleted himself from the memory of the universe. What will that allow in?
And like Clara said, she knows how to fight the monsters because she remembers. If the Doctor has gone around undoing himself, how many people how many places don't know that one crucial thing? Not that the monsters are real, but that they can be defeated.
Foolish Doctor. Wrong solution. Cannot just throw story out because it got too scary, have to make it better.
Also today I cooked food. I followed instructions. The ones on the jars and the packets. I had to open three whole things to makes the foods. Pasta sauce, quorn mince, microwave pasta.
... the inside of the microwave is kind of extensively pasta sauce now. I did like it said! But possibly I need to do like it said in a much bigger bowl, or with half the food at a time.
*sigh*
It tasted interesting though. Very little of my food tastes actually interesting, on account of only being able to reheat, and not usually remembering to do that at useful intervals.
Another Doctor Who thought: it's not very pacifist. I mean, he might sneer at Strax for his first thought being a grenade, but there is not exactly a shortage of stuff being blown up and things being killed. It's not the only solution, which is nice, but after the Silence and Neil Armstrong's foot the Doctor is very greatly in error and the show is only not annoying because its story arc has been about how the Doctor is very greatly in error. But still, lots of blowing stuff up. The Doctor fights his enemies, he doesn't fix them like, what was it, Ghost Whisperer? Have a good chat and sort their problems out? Is why I like ghost stories, you can't fix them with a good being killed, tis the source of the problem. But one of the bazillion things I been reading was saying how that's the point of Doctor Who, showing violence doesn't solve problems, violence begets violence. Something to do with A Town Called Mercy? I didn't like the solution on that one. When the story blows stuff up instead of the Doctor doing it then it's more annoying, like, lalala, we no have to fix this, we blows it up for you. And turning violence into law enforcement is a problematic model if you ask me. And why doesn't the repentant criminal get to choose his own penance? Healing people is pretty good way of life. Why does there have to be punishment anyway, if he's better now? Stupid. Except story wanted to make an argue, so maybe we're meant to think is stupid?
Violence begets violence, and things get blown up every week: I was thinking, that's not just Doctor Who. Because every blowing things up show, like Stargate, the team goes out there and does shooting things and blowing things up and at the end of a season defeating the level boss and hey, look, level up, new boss. Just by the structure of television shows being more of the same only different, you start with violent show, you get more violence.
If you start with violence and negotiate a peace treaty and it works, then the story ends.
That's kind of messed up.
*ponders*
OTOH, surviving the peace was what B5 did at the end, so some shows go there.
I have not watched B5 for ages. Ages and ages.
As soon as I'm done with this studying lark I can watch all the things. All. Any!
... wow ...
... honestly, it's what I did all the time when I wasn't studying it, hence the studying of it, so even when I can do anything, I do watching Doctor Who.
in 7.5 River was not happy with him. Like, he went for a kiss and she turned her head away; not happy. And her voice had edges and was less fun. Possibly this is because she was going to have to break her wrist but I was thinking on it and I think it was other stuff too. Like, I've been writing about how River gave up her lives for the Doctor and then went to university to study him and then went to prison to protect him. Professor Song got pardoned because the man she killed never existed. Like someone went around deleting himself from everything everywhere. I think she was unhappy about that. For one thing, he just deleted her academic speciality. But she is a Professor somewhere so she must have worked around that. Archaeology is maybe not fussed if you're studying kings, generals, Doctors, gods or monsters, as long as you know how to put all the evidence in a row? But for another, he does this after how long? She was in Stormcage how long? Maybe he could have done it quicker? Except no, because Byzantium, he couldn't twist his own past on purpose. What she says though is about getting older and hiding the damage because the Doctor doesn't like endings. That's a plausible interpretation of this episode, but she doesn't know he already knows her ending, and that was when he started liking her. He knows they'll run out of days though, maybe he doesn't like being reminded? It doesn't feel like it fits though. He doesn't like people growing away from him or the idea of going looking for them and finding their name in stone, it's not the same as not liking to see the damage, is it? Their relationship needs some fixing though, if she can think that. And he tried to fix it with glowy but it didn't work real well. But then by the end she seemed happy to travel with him. Except for that 'one psychopath per TARDIS' comment. I would like if they do not use that word, using mental health terms sloppily is annoying. Madman in a box isn't massively better but has a classic ring to it. I don't know though, I quite like that there's someone like me saving the world a lot, that's one reason I like the Doctor, he is not now and never has been neurotypical. One of the BBC audios is it that says that? BBC something. I could listen later.
ANYway... huh, lookit the long paragraph, academic habit is harder to read on the web. Paragraphs are tricksy. I been taught the trick to read lots of things quickly is read first and last lines of paragraphs, and if it's well written then they'll tell you what the point will be and what it was. I don't think I can write like that. I just tend to type thoughts until I realise I have two pages of one paragraph and then go back and hit return at points it doesn't break up a breath.
... I had a point. A Snowmen point... Ah! Erasing himself. The Doctor deleted himself from the memory of the universe. What will that allow in?
And like Clara said, she knows how to fight the monsters because she remembers. If the Doctor has gone around undoing himself, how many people how many places don't know that one crucial thing? Not that the monsters are real, but that they can be defeated.
Foolish Doctor. Wrong solution. Cannot just throw story out because it got too scary, have to make it better.
Also today I cooked food. I followed instructions. The ones on the jars and the packets. I had to open three whole things to makes the foods. Pasta sauce, quorn mince, microwave pasta.
... the inside of the microwave is kind of extensively pasta sauce now. I did like it said! But possibly I need to do like it said in a much bigger bowl, or with half the food at a time.
*sigh*
It tasted interesting though. Very little of my food tastes actually interesting, on account of only being able to reheat, and not usually remembering to do that at useful intervals.
Another Doctor Who thought: it's not very pacifist. I mean, he might sneer at Strax for his first thought being a grenade, but there is not exactly a shortage of stuff being blown up and things being killed. It's not the only solution, which is nice, but after the Silence and Neil Armstrong's foot the Doctor is very greatly in error and the show is only not annoying because its story arc has been about how the Doctor is very greatly in error. But still, lots of blowing stuff up. The Doctor fights his enemies, he doesn't fix them like, what was it, Ghost Whisperer? Have a good chat and sort their problems out? Is why I like ghost stories, you can't fix them with a good being killed, tis the source of the problem. But one of the bazillion things I been reading was saying how that's the point of Doctor Who, showing violence doesn't solve problems, violence begets violence. Something to do with A Town Called Mercy? I didn't like the solution on that one. When the story blows stuff up instead of the Doctor doing it then it's more annoying, like, lalala, we no have to fix this, we blows it up for you. And turning violence into law enforcement is a problematic model if you ask me. And why doesn't the repentant criminal get to choose his own penance? Healing people is pretty good way of life. Why does there have to be punishment anyway, if he's better now? Stupid. Except story wanted to make an argue, so maybe we're meant to think is stupid?
Violence begets violence, and things get blown up every week: I was thinking, that's not just Doctor Who. Because every blowing things up show, like Stargate, the team goes out there and does shooting things and blowing things up and at the end of a season defeating the level boss and hey, look, level up, new boss. Just by the structure of television shows being more of the same only different, you start with violent show, you get more violence.
If you start with violence and negotiate a peace treaty and it works, then the story ends.
That's kind of messed up.
*ponders*
OTOH, surviving the peace was what B5 did at the end, so some shows go there.
I have not watched B5 for ages. Ages and ages.
As soon as I'm done with this studying lark I can watch all the things. All. Any!
... wow ...