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Yesterday felt like the day Patty and I never quite woke up. We both got done what we needed to do and not much more, and I assume it's from the whole walking and sun thing on Saturday. Annoyingly, I still feel a bit like that today, which is no good as I have an important audition.

I scraped through this round of WIAD by the skin of my teeth.

Anyone having problems with the most recent Blackberry software update? When I try to send outgoing gmail now, it just sort of sits there in the open message window. Is there a way to reboot or something?

USB typewriter.

thornsilver found this bit of dysfunction from Canary Wharf. Fun for Torchwood fen.

Two marines arrested after beating a gay man for winking at them.

A NYT editorial in support of equal marriage rights.

Gay best friends crowned prom king and queen at their high school, and for a change from recent news stories, most everyone was cool with it. via ginmar.

While survival rates for oiled birds and other wildlife is low, some argue that we must keep trying to save them.

If you were a sea turtle, what sort of video would you take? I am completely mesmerized by this.

Unemployed and looking for work? Better not let a potential employer know. Lots are refusing to hire the unemployed, regardless of reason for said unemployment.

Meanwhile, Arizona's charge to hate EVERYONE has been going on for a while, did you know they also rescinded benefits for domestic partners and their children?

I am struck, watching Angel, how drawn we (we, audiences? we, fandom? I am not sure) are to narratives of becoming. It's why Wesley's arc is so fucking satisfying. It's why the Snape arc fizzles in the 7th HP book (in book 4 and book 6 he steps up into more and frightening things merely hinted at... in book 7, snake bubble to the head and a discovery that he's solely living in the past) and it's why Ianto's death is such a fucking punch -- there was transformation and now we're never going to see into what.

So I sort of get the impression that Wesley and Lilah are actually quite fond of each other. I'm oddly charmed. OMG with the phone sex. Also, damn does Alexis Denisof have a fine body. I think those things a lot, but I don't say them because it's a little boring and a little weird, but damn.

And thank crap we got Lorne back. Am concerned about the Cordy amnesia plot.

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[syzygy-lj.livejournal.com]

I am struck, watching Angel, how drawn we (we, audiences? we, fandom? I am not sure) are to narratives of becoming. It's why Wesley's arc is so fucking satisfying.

It's also why Donna Noble's story arc is so unsatisfying. She grew and changed so much through her travels with the Doctor, and to have that all ripped away from her was a tragedy. It sort of makes Season 4 of Doctor Who hard for me to watch, because I know what's coming.

[rm.livejournal.com]

It's ripped away, but we did get the whole process. I don't find myself wondering who she would have become, just sad and frustrated that she didn't get to stay there. Her arc has always struck me as a very sloppily executed Flowers for Algernon sort of thing.

[syzygy-lj.livejournal.com]

She got the whole process, which in a way makes it more tragic. For a short while, she was who she was meant to be, and then zap, RTD's Hammer of Epicness came down on her. Like you say, it was a poor version of Algernon. Only Donna doesn't get to even remember that she had this awesome life for a while. She starts from square one, like nothing has ever happened, and her loved ones have to shield her from the world in case the mention of aliens causes her head to explode.

I would almost have been happier if she had died, because then she would have died awesome and all her progress would have stayed with her to the end.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

I wonder if RTD intended Donna's fate to remind old-skool!Who fans of Two's final Companions, Zoe and Jamie, who were memory-wiped and put back where and when they came from by the Time Lords.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Her arc has always struck me as a very sloppily executed Flowers for Algernon sort of thing.

Absolutely. Compared to Whedon, I think Davies sucks at endings. OTOH, the middle of Whedon's story arcs can really drag (as you will unfortunately see in Season 7 of Buffy).