Today and yesterday
Jun. 6th, 2014 07:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethRe-listened to the rest of the 8th Doctor and Lucie Miller, then Dark Eyes.
8 gets this emotional arc very much shaped by the ability of writers to do whatever the hell they want to him and his companions, and what they mostly want is for him to suffer. Listened to all in a row you get this whole thing where he makes friends then loses them, repeatedly, usually in the watches them die way because this is a thing you can do to 8 and not to the others.
So he decides to go visit the end of the universe because maybe the view will be better from the end of everything than it is right there in his everyday life. Which is about as close to utter despair as you can imagine him getting.
People mess with his brain repeatedly. And he loses whole chunks of memory a lot. He has no idea how old he is, he probably lost centuries, he wouldn't know.
He watches whole worlds die, over and over, and whole species with them. And he keeps charging back into war, much against his will.
Hope, when it arrives, is either a deceptive construct that screws Susan over, or a deceptive construct that screws the Doctor over in a completely separate set up.
In short, everything is awful always.
That last regeneration sequence on the TV... having listened to all these I only wonder how he held out that long.
It just really reminds you that a life of adventure is grand to listen to but unremittingly terrible to have to live.
So, you know, that... that's a way to cheer up with my favourite stories?
I'm kind of wondering right now what it says about me that I like stories like this. I mean, I know there's not an actual Doctor we puppet dance into horror and woe for our amusement, but there's still something creepy in there in liking it.
The other thing I did all day was play Sandlot games in the Cake Mania franchise. There's quite a contrast. There's no violence or enemies to defeat or anything, you just sell stuff and use the money to build stuff. And then there's marriage and babies and everyone being happy.
I like that story plenty well enough to play, but I don't seem to have anything on DVD with that sort of story. There's happily ever after home life stuff at the end of some of these, but on the whole conflict is the pointy end and kaboom sorts. I don't think I've even got any romantic comedies that aren't also about shooting people. Even The Breakfast Club features a gun and domestic violence.
I'm basically feeling the sudden urge to collect children's cartoons to watch.
Ones that do not involve Batman. I already have a lot of those, but happy snuggly home lives don't tend to be a feature, for all I love Batfamily stuff.
You know that 'which fictional universe would you want to move in to' question?
... my answer remains stuck somewhere between major SF franchises and comics, landing on Star Trek solely because they have holodecks so it's like choosing all the others at once,
but I think the only sensible answer would be Cake Mania.
Granted I don't think food service is a career I'd enjoy when it involved less mouse clicking, but there's a much higher chance of happy beginnings and middles as well as last pages.
8 gets this emotional arc very much shaped by the ability of writers to do whatever the hell they want to him and his companions, and what they mostly want is for him to suffer. Listened to all in a row you get this whole thing where he makes friends then loses them, repeatedly, usually in the watches them die way because this is a thing you can do to 8 and not to the others.
So he decides to go visit the end of the universe because maybe the view will be better from the end of everything than it is right there in his everyday life. Which is about as close to utter despair as you can imagine him getting.
People mess with his brain repeatedly. And he loses whole chunks of memory a lot. He has no idea how old he is, he probably lost centuries, he wouldn't know.
He watches whole worlds die, over and over, and whole species with them. And he keeps charging back into war, much against his will.
Hope, when it arrives, is either a deceptive construct that screws Susan over, or a deceptive construct that screws the Doctor over in a completely separate set up.
In short, everything is awful always.
That last regeneration sequence on the TV... having listened to all these I only wonder how he held out that long.
It just really reminds you that a life of adventure is grand to listen to but unremittingly terrible to have to live.
So, you know, that... that's a way to cheer up with my favourite stories?
I'm kind of wondering right now what it says about me that I like stories like this. I mean, I know there's not an actual Doctor we puppet dance into horror and woe for our amusement, but there's still something creepy in there in liking it.
The other thing I did all day was play Sandlot games in the Cake Mania franchise. There's quite a contrast. There's no violence or enemies to defeat or anything, you just sell stuff and use the money to build stuff. And then there's marriage and babies and everyone being happy.
I like that story plenty well enough to play, but I don't seem to have anything on DVD with that sort of story. There's happily ever after home life stuff at the end of some of these, but on the whole conflict is the pointy end and kaboom sorts. I don't think I've even got any romantic comedies that aren't also about shooting people. Even The Breakfast Club features a gun and domestic violence.
I'm basically feeling the sudden urge to collect children's cartoons to watch.
Ones that do not involve Batman. I already have a lot of those, but happy snuggly home lives don't tend to be a feature, for all I love Batfamily stuff.
You know that 'which fictional universe would you want to move in to' question?
... my answer remains stuck somewhere between major SF franchises and comics, landing on Star Trek solely because they have holodecks so it's like choosing all the others at once,
but I think the only sensible answer would be Cake Mania.
Granted I don't think food service is a career I'd enjoy when it involved less mouse clicking, but there's a much higher chance of happy beginnings and middles as well as last pages.