Dept. of randomosity
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kaffy_rThings I've Thought Recently
- This I believe: it is impossible to keep knit sweaters safe from disfigurement in a house with three cats.
- After checking out some clips of rugby games (don't ask - it started with YouTube clips of haka from the New Zealand All Blacks and went from there to the Rugby world championship) I am now convinced that rugby is a game that requires more skill and gut toughness than any other version of sport that could be called "football." It particularly eclipses American football (Sorry, supergee.)
- Also? Haka are pretty amazing pieces of theater to watch and listen to and make me want to learn more about Maori history and culture.
- I have gained back much (not all, but a lot) of the weight I lost to my RA/scleroderma. I find that I don't care quite as much now as I did a few months ago. Perhaps the idea that I'm exercising regularly and attempting to be a teeny bit more active, makes me feel this way. Perhaps it's because I just can't be bothered to worry about it. Hmmmm.
- Getting anywhere at all on Chapter 26 of Hearts and Moons has proven to be very difficult. This story won't be done before the end of 2015. Bother.
- I really am liking this season of Doctor Who, although the most recent one had me violently swinging between enjoyment (Osgood! Kate Stewart!) and irritation (Doctor with little time in world-threatening crisis decides to travel trans Atlantic in a plane instead of the TARDIS. O rly?)
- Exercise is hard
- Wow. Much randomosity.
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Date: Sunday, 8 November 2015 10:24 pm (UTC)I think this season is, overall, Capaldi's and Coleman's strongest yet, and I'm truly enjoying it. Generally, each two-parter has been stronger in the second episode than in the first episode, which is usually not the case. The only time I felt as if the writing fell back into the "pretty good first part, less good second part" pattern was with The Woman Who Lived, and even that I liked for many reasons. (Not least of which was the desperate banter between Sam Swift and the crowd. If my agingin memory is at all correct, I seem to recall that people on the gallows were allowed, up to a certain point, to banter with the crowd, in part because every minute of life is a minute of life, and in part to add to the enjoyment of the audience. It felt very 16th-17th century to me.)
I don't mind the moral lessons, because heaven knows all iterations of the Doctor have been prone to trying to teach them. This one was more ham-handed than I'm completely comfortable with - but oddly, only in how awkwardly Ishildr's sudden return to caring came across. All I could think of was "Oh, FFS, I'm pretty sure she ran into people she wanted to save between the Black Death and then. So I'm supposed to believe it's the Doctor hanging around that's different this time? Yah, sure, youbetcha."
Still and all? Good ... very good season to date, at least in my opinion.