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- Doing work, eating a chicken and cheese tamale, listening to Glenn Miller (yes, really. yes, I'm _that_ nerd. yes, I desperately want to update my swing dance skills now (although I'm not interested in that whole flashy trick thing, in part because I don't want to be the girl and in part because that is not even remotely a fashion in which I'm interested in becoming airborne)). For values of having to do work this would only be better if I could manage it with my feet up on the desk at the same time.

- Things I must do prior to Sicily: get sandals that hide my toes. Remember to pack shoes that aren't sandals for the climbing that fortress thing. Get Euros. Figure out about 800 gluten-related issues. Clean all my fencing gear.

- Watched the beginning of Doctor Who's second season last night.

The Christmas episode was really good in terms of moral issues and wow the new Prime Minister who was so cool so fucked that shit up. I thought the "six words" thing was about as chilling as anything I've ever seen on the show. This Doctor may seem more light-hearted but he also feels a lot more dangerous. That Christmas tree of death was about the stupidest shit I've ever seen though.

Question: Alex. I've seen a ton of fics where he and Jack had something going on briefly at one point. Is that later canon or did a whole bunch of people decide dark hair, good suits and efficiency was somehow Jack's type?

Meanwhile, New Earth upset me despite having the biggest world building hole ever (if these people were grown in vats and then immediately locked in these tanks to have diseases, how the hell did they have language?) Also the Face of Boe thing went nowhere, and if I was watching the episode without the knowledge I already have, I'd be like "what the hell?" and not in a good way. Cat nuns are creepy. And the scene at the end at the party where Cassandra gets told she is beautiful? That was amazing and made me cry. That said, having compassion for Cassandra wasn't really on my list of things to do last night.

- Question of the Day. If it can't kill you is it still a delicacy?. Personally, I think that goes way beyond fish.

Comments

[amberite.livejournal.com]

I thought the "six words" thing was about as chilling as anything I've ever seen on the show.

Yes. The stuff of nightmares. (The dream/nightmare aspects of the new DW, as a rule, are one of the reasons I consistently love it even when it's got plot holes the size of Turkmenistan.)

It just occurred to me reading this post that New Earth is a retelling of the LeGuin story, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.

The story has its fair share of plot discrepancy as well, largely because it's an argument against utilitarianism, so tries to show utilitarianism in its purest form, and I don't think there's really a pure form of utilitarianism: there are a lot of real-life situations in which an action to save a larger group of people may inflict pain on a smaller group by happenstance, but not any I can think of in which the suffering itself will save the larger group of people.

[amberite.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I don't want to spoil, but I'm going to be very interested in what you think of the connections between those six words in Christmas Invasion and the S3 finale...