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Thank God it's Friday
Jan. 18th, 2008 03:49 pmSo glad this week is done with. Not that it doesn’t start again on Monday but at least it won’t include the covering for absent colleague part.
Did still manage to catch hold of Torchwood on the iPlayer. It looks better smaller, not so obviously Cardiff. Still has that whole trying too hard to be adult thing going (It’s a blowfish, see blow fish ), there were some funnier lines (though many in the Jonsonian way of being both good and original) and that flesh coloured T James Marsters was sporting looked awfully like the american tan inserts to racier dresses in Come Dancing back in the day. Dear Torchwood, never change.
I signed on for the Great Anonymous Vidding Meme and got some really helpful comments, particularly with respect to the current brain vid which is very ideas-led. Clarity, always clarity. The surprising thing about those memes is quite how liberating it is with respect to praiseful as well as concrity commenting. In the James Tiptree biography she’s quoted as saying something similar about the sf community, we get trained so well to criticise that it’s very freeing to be able just to talk about why you liked something.
Also re-downloaded some vids that got lost when I had to wipe my hard drive (well I didn’t have to, it just seemed like a good idea at the time). Lum’s There, there included, the one about Illyria with the ripples and the fade to white, like ice cream. It’s a little sad that in the comics ( Small spoilers )
Did still manage to catch hold of Torchwood on the iPlayer. It looks better smaller, not so obviously Cardiff. Still has that whole trying too hard to be adult thing going (It’s a blowfish, see blow fish ), there were some funnier lines (though many in the Jonsonian way of being both good and original) and that flesh coloured T James Marsters was sporting looked awfully like the american tan inserts to racier dresses in Come Dancing back in the day. Dear Torchwood, never change.
I signed on for the Great Anonymous Vidding Meme and got some really helpful comments, particularly with respect to the current brain vid which is very ideas-led. Clarity, always clarity. The surprising thing about those memes is quite how liberating it is with respect to praiseful as well as concrity commenting. In the James Tiptree biography she’s quoted as saying something similar about the sf community, we get trained so well to criticise that it’s very freeing to be able just to talk about why you liked something.
Also re-downloaded some vids that got lost when I had to wipe my hard drive (well I didn’t have to, it just seemed like a good idea at the time). Lum’s There, there included, the one about Illyria with the ripples and the fade to white, like ice cream. It’s a little sad that in the comics ( Small spoilers )