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Remember what the Doormouse said...
Oct. 30th, 2006 12:19 pm"Feed your head...feed your head"
How did the creators of Doctor Who come up with the sound of the TARDIS' engines? 'Cause they're drilling and excavating at the proper hospital across the street, and on my way to work, I had to keep from flipping out because it sounded so very similar (point of fact? If no one sees me again for a while after today, don't worry much ^.^). Just curious.
Speaking of Doctor Who, I finished the second series this weekend. And there's still kind of a lot that needs to settle in my brain about it, especially given as I finished it in a whirlwind marathon of doing nothing else execept watching the series. I haven't sat and done nothing else while watching a marathon in forever. I'm too used to typing on the computer or doing my craft-y stuff. It's really hard to measure time going by without those distractions.
So, first thing I did when I had a mo' after finishing the series was to go read up about it on Wikipedia. It seemed like a good enough spot for jumping into explanations about the history of the series without getting into all the continuity problems upfront or the fan wars about the same. This was extremely helpful and a lot less spoiler-ridden than I was expecting. Probably could have done me some good to read it ahead of watching the whole series, actually. None of it needs to be related here--no one who'd be reading this would know less than I do about it. Just generally helpful stuff, like I usually find on Wikipedia. I was actually surprised the entries were so short for the most part. I've read the stuff you'd find in medical journals on Wikipedia and gotten more to read. Then again, maybe the Wikipedia folk had to freeze the articles to keep the fan wars off their website and over on the many, many fansites where they belong.
Anyway, some impressions:
( A few early thoughts while I continue to make sense of what I've seen and what I've read. )
Another bit of TV-related news: I tried to watch Deadwood, and I couldn't get into it. I'm sure there's something amazing about the adventures of Old Timey Timothy Olyphant (aside from the obvious reason: he's sexy) and the cursing, ugly cur of the whorehouse owner, but I'm not going to discover it. It's too hard to tell characters apart as is with all the facial hair, and it's not made better by people double-crossing, lying, playing roles etc. Sorry, it's just not happening.
It probably doesn't help that I spent all that day on Doctor Who and then went to see The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D immediately after. Nightmare was great, by the by. I never got to see it on the big screen, so that was a treat. And the 3D effects weren't the popping-out-of-the-screen dizzying stuff you get in the standard made-for-3D fare. More, it was like they added more depth to the picture, so the 3D went backwards more than forwards, and it made it so much more beautiful. I spent the entire time smiling so hard that my mouth ached afterwards. I mean, how could I not? The second the main title started in ("Boys and girls of every age/ wouldn't you like to see something strange?"), I was totally into it. It only got better. Loved it!
How did the creators of Doctor Who come up with the sound of the TARDIS' engines? 'Cause they're drilling and excavating at the proper hospital across the street, and on my way to work, I had to keep from flipping out because it sounded so very similar (point of fact? If no one sees me again for a while after today, don't worry much ^.^). Just curious.
Speaking of Doctor Who, I finished the second series this weekend. And there's still kind of a lot that needs to settle in my brain about it, especially given as I finished it in a whirlwind marathon of doing nothing else execept watching the series. I haven't sat and done nothing else while watching a marathon in forever. I'm too used to typing on the computer or doing my craft-y stuff. It's really hard to measure time going by without those distractions.
So, first thing I did when I had a mo' after finishing the series was to go read up about it on Wikipedia. It seemed like a good enough spot for jumping into explanations about the history of the series without getting into all the continuity problems upfront or the fan wars about the same. This was extremely helpful and a lot less spoiler-ridden than I was expecting. Probably could have done me some good to read it ahead of watching the whole series, actually. None of it needs to be related here--no one who'd be reading this would know less than I do about it. Just generally helpful stuff, like I usually find on Wikipedia. I was actually surprised the entries were so short for the most part. I've read the stuff you'd find in medical journals on Wikipedia and gotten more to read. Then again, maybe the Wikipedia folk had to freeze the articles to keep the fan wars off their website and over on the many, many fansites where they belong.
Anyway, some impressions:
( A few early thoughts while I continue to make sense of what I've seen and what I've read. )
Another bit of TV-related news: I tried to watch Deadwood, and I couldn't get into it. I'm sure there's something amazing about the adventures of Old Timey Timothy Olyphant (aside from the obvious reason: he's sexy) and the cursing, ugly cur of the whorehouse owner, but I'm not going to discover it. It's too hard to tell characters apart as is with all the facial hair, and it's not made better by people double-crossing, lying, playing roles etc. Sorry, it's just not happening.
It probably doesn't help that I spent all that day on Doctor Who and then went to see The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D immediately after. Nightmare was great, by the by. I never got to see it on the big screen, so that was a treat. And the 3D effects weren't the popping-out-of-the-screen dizzying stuff you get in the standard made-for-3D fare. More, it was like they added more depth to the picture, so the 3D went backwards more than forwards, and it made it so much more beautiful. I spent the entire time smiling so hard that my mouth ached afterwards. I mean, how could I not? The second the main title started in ("Boys and girls of every age/ wouldn't you like to see something strange?"), I was totally into it. It only got better. Loved it!
