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[rm]

I have just visited the cat. While she is still not eating on her own and is still jaundiced, today she sat up, meowed, try to come out of her little hospital enclosure and was otherwise more interactive with me. She also seemed less bloated and seemed to be breathing better. While we could still get a lot of bad news tomorrow, this is the first time in days I've had actual hope for her, and it's good to see her less miserable.

Jack's back. Actually, I just chopped off all my hair. Thank god. I feel about a bazillion times better. It's cute (at least it was until the fucking hairdresser tried to make it flouffy -- LEAVE IT ALONE -- I AM NOT A POODLE). Once I wash it it'll be near perfect. I'll get a little trim before Gally, and we'll be good to go.

Okay, so the response to expensive cat illness shouldn't be retail therapy, but I caved and bought myself a new pair of eyeglasses. The frames are Ray-bans, god help me (only funny if you are a child of the 80s, I think) -- fairly rectangular, gunmetal grey, and really, really, REALLY awesome. I spent more than I wanted to, but hey, they'll be ready tomorrow. Transitions lenses too -- so sunglasses and not!

Hard Choice for a Comfortable Death: Terminal Sedation. I tried to read this last night, and failed, which is unlike me. Got through it this morning.

The NY Times on marching bands. But really? It just makes me want to watch Drumline again. I love that movie so much it's embarrassing.

Really need to order/get a stud set for my tux like five minutes ago. If not today, tomorrow. I resisted the urge to traumatize Patty with the easy availability of one celebrating her alma mater. Her alma mater is like a fandom. It's really scary.

cupidsbow is doing this brilliant thing of 12 Days of Cliche with Torchwood fan offerings. Day 2 was mpreg, which is weird in TW fandom, since a) it's canonically relevant (I say relevant as we don't know if Jack was lying or not) and b) it actually can be used to address a lot of other stuff that is central to TW canon. I find TW is the first and only fandom I'll read mpreg in, and I wonder why that is. It's not erotic to me, and it's certainly not making these men seem more familiar to me or my experience. I suppose it's the unlikeliness -- and that is familiar. Jack or Ianto having a damn baby is only marginally more absurdist than my having one. Or something.

marchek sent me a remarkable little poem, 221B, by Vincent Starrett about Sherlock Holmes, that in its first couple of lines really speaks to what I'm doing for the Bristol paper, and I think would also be of interest to many Torchwood fen.

While I didn't much care for Part 1 of The End of Time I gotta say the new trailers for Part 2 (especially this one) give me chills. I normally don't consider trailers spoilers, but these are pretty spoilertastic. I have a lot of hope that RTD's habit of making the second half of two-parters too big manifested in the first half this time, and that the second half is going to be cold and chilling. Also one of the other trailers has the sentence "he must stand at arms or lose himself and all this world." HELLO THEMES FROM CHILDREN OF EARTH, I SEE YOU.

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[rm.livejournal.com]

What glove?

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

From part two's first few minutes; it's not metallic, but..

[rm.livejournal.com]

It's absolutely the same prop item, and I certainly feel like TW left the issue of those gloves (where they came from, what they are supposed to do) open. I also feel like TW makes it pretty clear that those gloves are BAD NEWS, and I think, assuming this isn't just borrowing a prop item and making it unrelated, that the appearance of a Risen MItten may go a long way to implying that the return of the Time Lords means they are returning as villains. The Risen Mitten reappearing is also arguably a potential set-up for TW, S4. It also may mean some wacky Ten deathbed pre-regeneration speech. I hadn't noticed that AT ALL when I first watched it, but it raises a lot of possibilities.

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

I think so.
I'm rather eager to see how they rationalize the Time Lords' prediction of the future and the Oods', too.

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

Did you watch the Confidential: Lords and Masters yet?
(http://www.ninjavideo.net/video/53969)

MOAR CRACK PLZ THX

ETA: There's some good flashback data in here that I think will help explain some stuff in new Who.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I'm watching it now. Interesting stuff in there. I want to do something with this Wilf as the Doctor's soulmate business.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Just noticed in that shot with the Timelords behind the president guy with their hands over their eyes -- very Fires of Pompeii.

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

I'm so damned curious as to what's going on there.

So hard to wait til next week! My mind is racing. Is this all another Rassilon thing?

And I just can't think of "Fires of Pompeii" without thinking of the Sisterhood of the Flame from "Brain of Morbius" (which is a rather lovely gothicy story) - the costuming, the psychic visions are all very close, really, and considering how much of a fanboy RTD is, I find it hard to believe it's a coincidence. Though I don't think the Time Lords ever turned to the Sisterhood for anything other than the "Elixir of Life"..though there's a possibility that the psychic at the table could be of the Sisterhood as a throwback to another Gallifreyan race, the Pythia. I wonder how far RTD is really going to go..? Regardless, if I wrote fan fic, my brain would be buzzing.