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beccaelizabethso, the headache eventually went away. this is of the good.
in the whole awake I had that covered yesterday through today, I basically watched one film.
this is... less good.
also read some fic.
so far haven't found an author who sees the characters much the same way I do
though there's been some fun ideas in there.
Have to wake up later for Sarah Jane and then Torchwood. There's a big gap between them that may well involve sleep.
on the 4th I have to be awake at ten in the morning. Methinks this will involve staying up a long time, rather than the sleeping at night thing.
meh.
I still haven't done the essay as needs doing by the 12th. This may seem like a large chunk of time away, but it seemed even larger when school stopped for the semester, and yet very little collegey stuff has happened in the between.
Mostly all I've been doing is lying in the dark (still and quiet) and going over Doctor Who and Torchwood in my head. Not even making up fic. Just going over it all again and again.
Even I know this isn't a useful or productive set of thoughts.
I mean at least rewatching would involve seeing it again.
retelling it just... big lot of nothing much.
Though I find it strangely comforting.
:eyeroll:
Been thinking about Jack and Ianto. In Cyberwoman especially. Ianto at one and the same moment managed to prove himself the perfect man for Jack, and totally backstab him. Which has to hurt double.
Ianto wouldn't leave. Even when he had every reason to believe she was dead, he wouldn't leave. Never would.
Considering the kick in the teeth Jack's last love left him with? That has to be the ultimate in appealing.
And yet, betrayal, right in the same package.
Ouch.
Jack? Does charging to the rescue quite well. But in the process does a whole lot of killing. Ianto's theory (Jack=monster) doesn't look entirely disproved.
What about Jack - pure sex appeal aside - would make Ianto like him?
Thing of it is, Ianto only making nice to backstab Jack later is *entirely* plausible. Refinements involving coffee and retcon would even make it genius.
But I don't want to read that. Let alone see it.
I know writers have something against happy relationships. But one reason I watch Ghost Whisperer is that they have at the core one happy couple and one happy friendship and then they go deal with the intruding ghosts. There's a good team dealing with bad things. It works out.
Dark seems to mean the team is bad too. I really don't like that. No fun at all.
There's only two eps left and I still reckon, we haven't actually been watching the good guys. Torchwood I mean. In DW they're explicitly the bad & stupid. In their own show I don't think they've proved themselves something else. There's so many ways to make things worse and they seem to do them a lot. Do bad things at each other too. So we've been watching the bad guys fall apart. That's not very nice.
the monsters are coming, the human race
still now reckon that's Torchwood in one line.
But it could turn right around if there was any light and life and happy and connection going on in the middle. Then it would be a whole other thing. Transformative power, how knowing people helps you be people, all that good stuff.
Just one relationship that doesn't go down in flames and betrayal. One. Shouldn't be asking for too much.
in the whole awake I had that covered yesterday through today, I basically watched one film.
this is... less good.
also read some fic.
so far haven't found an author who sees the characters much the same way I do
though there's been some fun ideas in there.
Have to wake up later for Sarah Jane and then Torchwood. There's a big gap between them that may well involve sleep.
on the 4th I have to be awake at ten in the morning. Methinks this will involve staying up a long time, rather than the sleeping at night thing.
meh.
I still haven't done the essay as needs doing by the 12th. This may seem like a large chunk of time away, but it seemed even larger when school stopped for the semester, and yet very little collegey stuff has happened in the between.
Mostly all I've been doing is lying in the dark (still and quiet) and going over Doctor Who and Torchwood in my head. Not even making up fic. Just going over it all again and again.
Even I know this isn't a useful or productive set of thoughts.
I mean at least rewatching would involve seeing it again.
retelling it just... big lot of nothing much.
Though I find it strangely comforting.
:eyeroll:
Been thinking about Jack and Ianto. In Cyberwoman especially. Ianto at one and the same moment managed to prove himself the perfect man for Jack, and totally backstab him. Which has to hurt double.
Ianto wouldn't leave. Even when he had every reason to believe she was dead, he wouldn't leave. Never would.
Considering the kick in the teeth Jack's last love left him with? That has to be the ultimate in appealing.
And yet, betrayal, right in the same package.
Ouch.
Jack? Does charging to the rescue quite well. But in the process does a whole lot of killing. Ianto's theory (Jack=monster) doesn't look entirely disproved.
What about Jack - pure sex appeal aside - would make Ianto like him?
Thing of it is, Ianto only making nice to backstab Jack later is *entirely* plausible. Refinements involving coffee and retcon would even make it genius.
But I don't want to read that. Let alone see it.
I know writers have something against happy relationships. But one reason I watch Ghost Whisperer is that they have at the core one happy couple and one happy friendship and then they go deal with the intruding ghosts. There's a good team dealing with bad things. It works out.
Dark seems to mean the team is bad too. I really don't like that. No fun at all.
There's only two eps left and I still reckon, we haven't actually been watching the good guys. Torchwood I mean. In DW they're explicitly the bad & stupid. In their own show I don't think they've proved themselves something else. There's so many ways to make things worse and they seem to do them a lot. Do bad things at each other too. So we've been watching the bad guys fall apart. That's not very nice.
the monsters are coming, the human race
still now reckon that's Torchwood in one line.
But it could turn right around if there was any light and life and happy and connection going on in the middle. Then it would be a whole other thing. Transformative power, how knowing people helps you be people, all that good stuff.
Just one relationship that doesn't go down in flames and betrayal. One. Shouldn't be asking for too much.