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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!
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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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Date: 7 Dec 2010 01:13 am (UTC)I thought it might be the weird staircase in Amy's house that goes nowhere, but that doesn't seem like a huge deal? it's kind of obvious? idk.
LOLLIPOP!!!!! :DD :D :D (glee)
[i am all about the exclamation points today APPARENTLY]
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Date: 7 Dec 2010 02:13 am (UTC)I thought it might be the weird staircase in Amy's house that goes nowhere, but that doesn't seem like a huge deal? it's kind of obvious? idk.
I think that really is just the stairs to the attic and everybody's blowing it all out of proportion. Like, I wish my attic had real stairs to it. Maybe if it did, I would actually use it.
[i am all about the exclamation points today APPARENTLY]
They are very aggressive.
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Date: 7 Dec 2010 04:44 am (UTC)and IIRC Amy's house has a flat roof...not much room for an attic.
It's the only thing I can think of! I have to be right!
>>They are very aggressive.
sorry :/
Ps I read that Stephen Fry article - adoooreeee that man - have you listened to his podcasts? My favourite is his rant/rage at language pedants. sooo good.
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Date: 9 Dec 2010 02:34 am (UTC)Oooo, the article is not actually by Stephen Fry, but was recommended by him. My knowledge of him is somewhat limited, but I am becoming more and more of a fan.
Have you listened to his podcasts? My favourite is his rant/rage at language pedants. sooo good.
Link, pls :)
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Date: 9 Dec 2010 04:04 am (UTC)[excuse me while i go a bit Stephen Fry crazy here]
Oh man, I think you would adore Stephen Fry... You need to watch QI, I think you'd love it...it's his comedy panel/game show thing about random facts and knowledge where the emphasis is put on being interesting rather than "right"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh_hHFT76iU
Then there's Fry and Laurie which is just... the funniest ever and has Hugh Laurie in it<3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFD01r6ersw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znZuH2BU0FE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utpdzQj2S6o
Here's his podcasts
http://www.stephenfry.com/media/
Language: http://fry.positive-dedicated.net/fry-podcast2-episodes-03.mp3
I adore him, he's one of my personal heroes. He's ridiculously intelligent and hilarious and he's survived sooo much insanity in his life. sigh <3
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Date: 21 Dec 2010 04:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
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