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promethia_tenk) wrote2010-12-06 04:21 pm
promethia_tenk) wrote2010-12-06 04:21 pm
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Good news, everybody!
First:
Snow! Well, ok, flurries. That didn't last long and didn't stick. But still, there were white fleck-y things in the sky, and I WAS OUT IN THEM! Huzzah!
Second:
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stick_poker , who is henceforth my personal hero until such time as I come across the next thing that literally makes me *gleep* with delight, has discovered something in "The Eleventh Hour" that everybody else missed. A bit of a joke, if you will. Namely, that Moffat was not really suggesting that the TARDIS's swimming pool is generally to be found in the library. Rather, the swimming pool is elsewhere, but with the TARDIS crashed on its side like that, the water from the swimming pool had drained out and pooled in the library. The key bit of dialogue, I think, (because it always bugged me somehow), is this:
Amelia: You said you were in the library.
Eleven: So was the swimming pool.
Was. It's a strange thing to say if the swimming pool is usually in the library, or at least had been recently as a matter of course. No, the swimming pool was in the library for the same reason Eleven was: it fell. (Aside, I also rather like the more absurdist visual of the entire swimming pool structure, having come unmoored somehow and floating free within the floor, crashing down into the library.)
IT'S A SPATIAL REASONING JOKE!! No, even better, IT'S A SPATIAL REASONING JOKE AND A METAPHOR ABOUT PERSONAL GROWTH ALL IN ONE!!! (Eleven was reborn out of the watery womb of knowledge and then asked for an apple =D )
Q: Could I love Steven Moffat's writing any more than I already do?
A: I didn't think so, but apparently I was wrong.
Q; Is everyone else going to be as delighted about this as me?
A: Somehow I doubt it, but let's find out, shall we?
Third:
Stephen Fry twitted the following article about the role of comedy and its importance and why the modern novel is dying from an angst overdose and I think I am in love with it but am having far too many thoughts about it to say anything coherent now, so I'll just leave this here: Divine Comedy.
Fourth:
A bit by the by, but since I was posting anyway: I think this is the funniest xkcd we've had in a long while.
Snow! Well, ok, flurries. That didn't last long and didn't stick. But still, there were white fleck-y things in the sky, and I WAS OUT IN THEM! Huzzah!
Second:
stick_poker , who is henceforth my personal hero until such time as I come across the next thing that literally makes me *gleep* with delight, has discovered something in "The Eleventh Hour" that everybody else missed. A bit of a joke, if you will. Namely, that Moffat was not really suggesting that the TARDIS's swimming pool is generally to be found in the library. Rather, the swimming pool is elsewhere, but with the TARDIS crashed on its side like that, the water from the swimming pool had drained out and pooled in the library. The key bit of dialogue, I think, (because it always bugged me somehow), is this:Amelia: You said you were in the library.
Eleven: So was the swimming pool.
Was. It's a strange thing to say if the swimming pool is usually in the library, or at least had been recently as a matter of course. No, the swimming pool was in the library for the same reason Eleven was: it fell. (Aside, I also rather like the more absurdist visual of the entire swimming pool structure, having come unmoored somehow and floating free within the floor, crashing down into the library.)
IT'S A SPATIAL REASONING JOKE!! No, even better, IT'S A SPATIAL REASONING JOKE AND A METAPHOR ABOUT PERSONAL GROWTH ALL IN ONE!!! (Eleven was reborn out of the watery womb of knowledge and then asked for an apple =D )
Q: Could I love Steven Moffat's writing any more than I already do?
A: I didn't think so, but apparently I was wrong.
Q; Is everyone else going to be as delighted about this as me?
A: Somehow I doubt it, but let's find out, shall we?
Third:
Stephen Fry twitted the following article about the role of comedy and its importance and why the modern novel is dying from an angst overdose and I think I am in love with it but am having far too many thoughts about it to say anything coherent now, so I'll just leave this here: Divine Comedy.
Fourth:
A bit by the by, but since I was posting anyway: I think this is the funniest xkcd we've had in a long while.
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Also ... Divine Comedy article was basically divine :D Extremely interesting read. Now excuse me, I need to go angst over being unable to write comedy ...
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... or possibly it just roams the TARDIS at will
This was roughly my interpretation (hence the Doctor's "don't know where it's got to now--it'll turn up"), or I more figured that the TARDIS tended to rearrange things from time to time for her own amusement and, quite logically, might have moved the pool during the remodel. But the idea that the pool had fallen into the library just had not occurred to me.
Also ... Divine Comedy article was basically divine :D Extremely interesting read. Now excuse me, I need to go angst over being unable to write comedy ...
:D Lol.
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For some reason the idea that it had all slid down in a glorious mess of water and books and Doctor and probably other stuff upon crash landing, hit me pretty early on and amused me. I imagined it like the Titanic upending and everything sliding down to the end (though in my mind it was the whole pool, not just its water), then I thought maybe the pool just liked to wander and then I guess I subscribed to the theory of 'pool lives in the library'
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