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tilly_stratford) wrote2008-03-26 10:21 pm
tilly_stratford) wrote2008-03-26 10:21 pm
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Ooh my dear Tsarina
Make my bed and light the light
I'll be home late tonight
Leave your perch and take the sky
Too-da-loo, farewell, bye bye
Well, I'm off on a good start, at least. Got the whole Nitrogen cycle down before I went to bed last night, and today I learned the Hardy-Weinberg principle by heart and all its deviations.
Big Finish has gotten hold of my monies today, oh yes.
Ooh, I'm letting an old acquiantance listen to my Invaders from Mars audio. Well, we got talking about War of the worlds and it sort of went from there. Poor guy will probably quite puzzled with the Charley business. Not to mention with the alien guy travelling the universe in phone box business...
Stayed up last night to watch Jabberwocky. Oh dear... It's not like I was one of those people expecting Monty Python part two (though some scenes struck me as quite The holy grail), or even something along Brazil which I love, but it really wasn't that funny, was it. I mean, Michael Palin did a wonderful sort of hapless bedraggled hero in a cute way (so I had something pretty to look at for one and half hours), and there were all sorts of wonderful accents to listen to, and well, the monster itself was done in a quite lovely way, but everything else? Ugh. And a silly scene in a certain audio play kept popping up in my mind...
[Jabberwock roars, running stops, panting]
Doctor: No seriously, listen. Li-lis... I mean – we can run around all day and get nowhere, except I suppose you can fry me and eat me, but – No no no no no no! You don’t want to do that, do you. Listen, listen, I saw you once! Yes! Indeed, in a film. Marvellous film! With, er, wi-with Max Wall, Warren Mitchell – and the Monty Python lot! I mean, you gotta be flattered by that!
[Jabberwock growls]
Doctor: And you were in it! Well, not exactly, but someone very like you, played by a man who later ran the BBC sports department.
[Growling]
Doctor: You’ve heard of the BBC? Marvellous people, all of them!
[Jabberwock roars]
Doctor: Well alright, some of them are a bit strange and they drink too much tea, which is rich coming from me, but please, please, please! Let’s calm down, hm?
I imagine I'd have so much to write here today, but really, all I've done today is studying, having a couple of breaks listening to the ending of Zagreus of all things, and a meeting at work discussing the new children's books campaign.
And speaking of Zagreus (I swear, someday I'll stop talking about it because it interests no one but me, but this is not that day), people can aim a lot of critique at it, but the ending! There's not a single thing wrong with the very ending. I love the sort of Casablanca farewell scene between the Doc and Romana. "I'll miss you, Doctor" - "You'll get by." And how the Doc struggles to say all the right things to Charley but is just awkward in the end and makes her storm off in anger. "I mean - I mean there's nowhere left. For us. [Pause] Charley, Charley say something." - "Are you... dumping me?" - "I'm saying... I'm saying that the places we've been and the people we've seen, we - we'll always have those memories, won't we?" - "You are! You're dumping me!"
And oh, that scene about how all his heroes let him down in the end. It's brilliant. "Enjoy your corruption, Romana." and his voice is dripping with bitterness and he's being a bit of a git, but it feels so right. Actually, typing that part down (I don't think I shall ever need the script books. It's too much fun typing it down myself) I suddenly realize that the scene is not particularly well written, and it hasn't got a single bit of music in it, but Ward and McGann just sells it. Brilliant.
What? I've been reading about Mendehl's pea experiments all day. I need to do a bit of fangasming to reboot my mind.
I'll be home late tonight
Leave your perch and take the sky
Too-da-loo, farewell, bye bye
Well, I'm off on a good start, at least. Got the whole Nitrogen cycle down before I went to bed last night, and today I learned the Hardy-Weinberg principle by heart and all its deviations.
Big Finish has gotten hold of my monies today, oh yes.
Ooh, I'm letting an old acquiantance listen to my Invaders from Mars audio. Well, we got talking about War of the worlds and it sort of went from there. Poor guy will probably quite puzzled with the Charley business. Not to mention with the alien guy travelling the universe in phone box business...
Stayed up last night to watch Jabberwocky. Oh dear... It's not like I was one of those people expecting Monty Python part two (though some scenes struck me as quite The holy grail), or even something along Brazil which I love, but it really wasn't that funny, was it. I mean, Michael Palin did a wonderful sort of hapless bedraggled hero in a cute way (so I had something pretty to look at for one and half hours), and there were all sorts of wonderful accents to listen to, and well, the monster itself was done in a quite lovely way, but everything else? Ugh. And a silly scene in a certain audio play kept popping up in my mind...
[Jabberwock roars, running stops, panting]
Doctor: No seriously, listen. Li-lis... I mean – we can run around all day and get nowhere, except I suppose you can fry me and eat me, but – No no no no no no! You don’t want to do that, do you. Listen, listen, I saw you once! Yes! Indeed, in a film. Marvellous film! With, er, wi-with Max Wall, Warren Mitchell – and the Monty Python lot! I mean, you gotta be flattered by that!
[Jabberwock growls]
Doctor: And you were in it! Well, not exactly, but someone very like you, played by a man who later ran the BBC sports department.
[Growling]
Doctor: You’ve heard of the BBC? Marvellous people, all of them!
[Jabberwock roars]
Doctor: Well alright, some of them are a bit strange and they drink too much tea, which is rich coming from me, but please, please, please! Let’s calm down, hm?
I imagine I'd have so much to write here today, but really, all I've done today is studying, having a couple of breaks listening to the ending of Zagreus of all things, and a meeting at work discussing the new children's books campaign.
And speaking of Zagreus (I swear, someday I'll stop talking about it because it interests no one but me, but this is not that day), people can aim a lot of critique at it, but the ending! There's not a single thing wrong with the very ending. I love the sort of Casablanca farewell scene between the Doc and Romana. "I'll miss you, Doctor" - "You'll get by." And how the Doc struggles to say all the right things to Charley but is just awkward in the end and makes her storm off in anger. "I mean - I mean there's nowhere left. For us. [Pause] Charley, Charley say something." - "Are you... dumping me?" - "I'm saying... I'm saying that the places we've been and the people we've seen, we - we'll always have those memories, won't we?" - "You are! You're dumping me!"
And oh, that scene about how all his heroes let him down in the end. It's brilliant. "Enjoy your corruption, Romana." and his voice is dripping with bitterness and he's being a bit of a git, but it feels so right. Actually, typing that part down (I don't think I shall ever need the script books. It's too much fun typing it down myself) I suddenly realize that the scene is not particularly well written, and it hasn't got a single bit of music in it, but Ward and McGann just sells it. Brilliant.
What? I've been reading about Mendehl's pea experiments all day. I need to do a bit of fangasming to reboot my mind.