beccaelizabeth | (no subject)

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?

Giving Seven the same ish moral choice Four got about the Daleks comes out interesting and dark.
And Ace and the Valkyries are all action and drama and horrible PTSD. Ace seems way too used to this bit and it is A Concern. But she's still careful of people.

In the chatty bits after the adventure, which I listened to to decompress after the screaming parts, the writer says Ace is a bit more New Adventures Ace, which, yes, is noticeable. Is part of the tricky with Ace's character, you can't separate the strands because the writers dont. And from a Doylist perspective you know she refers back to school so much because the writers are all drawing on TV where she's young, but from a Watsonian one we dont know how old she is at all. Like Sophie said in the chat bit, Ace could be a very fit 40 something, like her actress. But the older she is the more of a concern it is that her chat and possibly her life divides up into (a) being surprisingly good at killing Daleks et very many c and (b) School.

Hex thinks she was born for this, for travelling with the Doctor and fighting and so forth. But she got there the hard way like anyone else.

Sometimes I want to give her a nice dinner and some careers brochures or something.

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.