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[sebastienne]

Well darlings, what a week it's been! Handed in the work of DOOM, and promptly spent three days doing nothing whatsoever. Well, for a given value of 'nothing'; have some beautifully-nested HTML.

• Seeing bands:
  
  • Barbare11a, who are so beautifully glam-goth that I almost don't care that their music was only average
  
  
  • Borderville, who I need to accept will never fill me with as much joy as they did in 2006, even though I still love them an awfully large amount
  
  
  • Scaramanga Six, who rocked and appeared to have Bill Bailey's evil twin on bass



• Staring at screens:
  
  • Star Trek, which was fun, and subverted some things that irritated me about TOS quite nicely
  
  
  • Ashes to Ashes, which is just made of awesome, plus 01x03 was approx the most feminist thing I'd ever seen on TV:
    
    • a woman who enjoys casual sex and is not ashamed of that fact
    
    
    • recognition of the fact that sex workers can get sexually assaulted
    
    
    • discussion of how attitudes to women alter based on their perceived sexual status
    
    
    • Mister Misogyny saying, "no, we shouldn't do this, we're too drunk"
  
  
  • Babylon 5, which continues epic
  
  
  • Genesis of the Daleks, which is joyous and wonderous and has moral complexity that New Who can't even dream of and giant clams!

So today it was back to mind-numbing data entry, and afterwards off to a seminar about social networks and political polarisation (y halo thar, area of DPhil interest.. yes, I wish to acquire propaganda skills that would have made Goebbels proud and Use Them For Good. You may say I'm a dreamer...), and I'm pretty much all the way back to normal. Not a bad refractory period, all things considered!

An offering of joy:

This video may not look like much to anyone else (I get a lot of home off it, all the random flashes of things-I-know-to-be-Oxford) but I think that the song is very worth listening to, regardless. It's a boy-meets-girl lovesong that doesn't irritate me! (Funny thing I've noticed about that: when I'm with a girl, it's, "why is no-one ever singing about us?" - now, it's, "how dare popular culture try to tell me how I should be experiencing things?")

So check it out. Especially if you're apotropaios.

Comments

[proskynesis]

"Do I have the right?" :O Plus, epic love for the bit where Four empties out his pockets. As always. And the Alexander the Great reference. :D

[half-of-monty.livejournal.com]

Sorry for being singularly unhelpful about the location of the seminar room, btw. I was in the middle of something and figured the porter pointing at it would be clearer anyway.

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

Oh, no worries! I'd just had an unfruitful search for a map on the Nuffield website and was being unnecessarily paranoid about porters saying "You Don't Belong Here."

It was, of course, all fine and shiny in the end ^_^

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

AWESOME OMG

1 - just does it. if he'd brain cavemen, he'd kill daleks.

2 - finds a way for the daleks to continue existing without threatening the rest of the universe. maybe gets Zoe to re-program them. is just awesome.

3 - sets it all up, but gets the brigadier to push the button, thus avoiding guilt.

4 - angsts. doesn't do it.

5 - kills daleks by accident. angsts.

6 - talks davros into a coma.

7 - had gone even further back and put things in motion that meant he didn't have to kill a room full of dalek babies but the daleks destroyed themselves with poetic justice.

8 - probably very similar to 4, but with better clothes.

The post-Time-War Doctors just do it, I reckon. I'm not sure the writers have the complexity for anything beyond Daleks => evil, kill kill kill.

what do you think?

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

Depends where it comes in Sixth's character arc. Which he totally does have. Just mostly in the audios because his TV-character got so horribly mangled.

I have seen Remembrance but all I can really remember is BASEBALL BAT OMG. I suppose I'm really basing my answer on Silver Nemesis, Fenric, etc, rather than 7's actual Dalek-interaction...

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

gods I love 7. he is dark.

[calliope85.livejournal.com]

:-O H8ER!!! COLIN BAKER'S FACE > YOU!!!!

....actually, that's not much of a counter-argument, is it.

[calliope85.livejournal.com]

[mejoff.livejournal.com]

You very nearly tricked me into breaking my work monitor. with punching

[calliope85.livejournal.com]

2 - finds a way for the daleks to continue existing without threatening the rest of the universe. maybe gets Zoe to re-program them. is just awesome.

What I love is that Second basically *did this*. Daleks playing trains, ILU. Team Second = ultimate win.

3 - sets it all up, but gets the brigadier to push the button, thus avoiding guilt.

Totally true. Bastard.

...why do I dislike him for this more than I dislike First for just casually committing genocide in the first three minutes of the episode and spending the rest of the twenty minutes complaining about his toothache? :S

I have half a suspicion that Fifth might do it - didn't he do his damnedest in 'R- of the Daleks'? I'm sure I remember references back to 'Genesis' along the lines of 'yeah, I was an idiot, let's go blow shit up.' Only more wangsty. And then he couldn't actually do it because he's *that inefficient*. Aww, Fifth.

Also, I think Eighth might. Much as I love him, he's a nut.

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

OMG whut? Daleks playing trains? Did I see that and forget?

And First might be a bastard, but at least he isn't mean to the Brig OMG.

Do you really think Eighth would? What beahviour does he demonstrate which makes you think this?

[calliope85.livejournal.com]

It's in 'Evil of the Daleks' which sadly is largely burninated (DAMNIT BBC), but I've got the cassette version somewhere. It features the Daleks deciding they want to find out why stupid humans keep defeating them by isolating the 'human factor'. This largely involves making Jamie run through mazes. Then the Doctor has to implant the 'human factor' into test Daleks. Aforementioned test Daleks then start behaving like ADORABLE THREE YEAR-OLDS who play trains and sing little songs about getting dizzy, and then start questioning their Dalek overlords, and then...get slightly annihilated, oops.

There's an Eighth comic arc which spins off from it, have you read that one? It was totally awesome for about two chapters (Dalek society with Dalek culture and Dalek art in Dalek Atlantis!) and then totally depressing for the last part. Oops again.

*ponders* I do think Eighth would, but I'm hard-pushed to say exactly why. Partly I guess the impression stems from actions in the amnesia-arc, which isn't entirely fair (because of aforementioned amnesia), but does leave one with the impression of Eighth being willing to go to *any* lengths, even *extrememly* morally questionable ones, to achieve his goals - the casual acceptance of human death in 'The Burning', for example, or the extended screw-up and emotional manipulation of 'Turing Test'. I think it's partly because of Eighth's fluffinesses that his I find his moments of unrepentent and unfeeling alienness even more jarring - fitting Compassion with a randomiser springs to mind (the violation imagery is *really disturbing*), or his lack of emotional reaction to C'rizz [SPOILER RESCINDED]. I guess it's a bit of a leap going from that to genocide, but I still feel oddly that he's one of the Doctors Who Would.

Plus the fact that he managed to wipe out Gallifrey at least twice hasn't entirely played in his favour, no matter how angsty he was about it.

Can I also interject Warner!Doctor here, who starts off being all gung-ho 'slaughter the bastards!' and ends up 'uh, yeah, oops, sorry guys, I forgot that I wasn't supposed to be a judgemental psychopath, my bad.' Yay Warner!Doctor.

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, Dalek Atlantis is awesome!

You may be right about Eighth's alienness. I'm not entirely sure though. Perhaps the fact that he's the only one I'm not sure about is the reason that he's my favourite?

[countess-rezia.livejournal.com]

I *love* the song. Slightly ambiguous, but hinting at potential melodrama = all my favourite songs.