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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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IT'S A SPATIAL REASONING JOKE AND A METAPHOR ABOUT PERSONAL GROWTH ALL IN ONE!!!
I thought it was merely that the TARDIS was rebuilding itself. Some furnature getting pushed around and such. Funny Doctor falling into the pool. I don't believe Moffat was thinking it through so analytically. . .
Alright, I reread the article more slowly. I'm usually forced to just pick out words from paragraphs instead reading all the way through, as I have difficulty focusing. Trying to piece it all together can lead to half-understandings and such.
I think I'd become rather irritated by what the critic called Homer's "tiresome clichés" and stopped taking much interest in the article from then on.
Julian Gough seemed to navigate away from the tremendous rich and celebrated history of comic theater (only briefly mentioning Greek comedy) and focused solely on areas that best supported his viewpoint.
Rather harsh about the Christian religion too, I might add. He clearly didn't do much research into the Mystery Cycles and passion plays. People really did love to see the Devil being hit with a frying pan.
As I don't read much these days, I'm not sure what's topping the bestseller lists. That said, there has never been a drop off of comedy within television, film or theater.
Comedy flurishes, in all its plentiful mediums.
Also slightly miffed Terry Pratchett wasn't mentioned.
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