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Mystery sky
Just noticed that there is a rather full moon up there in the sky. And clouds rushing around, gliding past it at gread speed. It might be a little windy, I think. I'm almost tempted to go for a few more moon pictures, but I think I'd like a lens with more tele reach for that... ah yes, I was planning to get a 70-300 mm one at some point.
So, 2007. Happy new year, anyone reading this! My new year's eve was as boring as they come... was surfing around randomly and trying to survive the sounds of the Great Battle outside, which seems to have lasted a good several hours. And trying to survive the neighbours. Eurgh. I really don't appreciate Russian disco (well, any kind of such horrid sounds, really) at full volume at 5 AM, with drunk people "singing" along to it, also at full volume. Bleh.
But I survived, and it's 2007. Will take some getting used to.
After not having watched much anything lately, I had a very entertainment-filled evening yesterday. I'm all caught up with various spin-offs of the Doctor Who world now (spin-offs of the television kind, anyway). The Sarah Jane Adventures fortunately did not disappoint. Yes, it's kiddie stuff, and quite obviously so, but not too kiddie for me to enjoy. Decent effects, some fun dialogue, decent plot (for a kiddie show), and the kids themselves were not that bad (well, two of them anyway). And Sarah Jane was fabulous. Elisabeth Sladen really does look great for a 58-year-old, and I enjoyed the little mentions of her original time... as well as those lovely pictures of the Brig.
Torchwood... Captain Jack Harkness was really rather good. Really. And the season finale, even in spite of some completely rubbish bits (and some pieces stolen directly from Angel), was not as bad as I feared. And it did actually end intriguingly enough... clever bastards, now I'll have to watch both Torchwood series 2 and Doctor Who series 3 to find out just what the hell that was all about.
As the season's over, I've been trying to form some coherent opinions of the whole thing. Not easy. It does have some promise, and I dearly hope the next series will manage to build on the strengths of the format and avoid the, um, attempts at being "adult". For me, the most effective episodes were clearly the ones that actually dealt with issues in a more dignified, mature way, and not the adolescent sense of "ooh, blood, gore, swearing, sex" adultness. And I realised that the episodes that really stood out for me all had to do with the past - Ghost Machine, Small Worlds, Out of Time and Captain Jack Harkness, which were just enough to make me want to keep watching it.
I've also decided that at least as long as I'm allowed, I will "take it easy" with work. In other words, I've been careful to watch my workload and adjust it myself since getting back to work after my sick leave - I've decided to keep my daily load at 6000-6500 words, which I've steadily managed, and try to avoid doing either more words or more hours. Six hours is the absolute maximum I can take now, I think - keeping it at five is better. At least my back aches, which were starting to become pure torture before my extended sick leave, have got less now, on most days they're not even there, so it seems five hours is what my back can actually take of that chair.
I am feeling somewhat guilty over doing short days, but I've got to the point where I do need to take care of myself first and foremost. And objectively speaking, I don't think I'm being lazy or unfair to others, as 6000 words a day should be considered reasonable, I think.
So, 2007. Happy new year, anyone reading this! My new year's eve was as boring as they come... was surfing around randomly and trying to survive the sounds of the Great Battle outside, which seems to have lasted a good several hours. And trying to survive the neighbours. Eurgh. I really don't appreciate Russian disco (well, any kind of such horrid sounds, really) at full volume at 5 AM, with drunk people "singing" along to it, also at full volume. Bleh.
But I survived, and it's 2007. Will take some getting used to.
After not having watched much anything lately, I had a very entertainment-filled evening yesterday. I'm all caught up with various spin-offs of the Doctor Who world now (spin-offs of the television kind, anyway). The Sarah Jane Adventures fortunately did not disappoint. Yes, it's kiddie stuff, and quite obviously so, but not too kiddie for me to enjoy. Decent effects, some fun dialogue, decent plot (for a kiddie show), and the kids themselves were not that bad (well, two of them anyway). And Sarah Jane was fabulous. Elisabeth Sladen really does look great for a 58-year-old, and I enjoyed the little mentions of her original time... as well as those lovely pictures of the Brig.
Torchwood... Captain Jack Harkness was really rather good. Really. And the season finale, even in spite of some completely rubbish bits (and some pieces stolen directly from Angel), was not as bad as I feared. And it did actually end intriguingly enough... clever bastards, now I'll have to watch both Torchwood series 2 and Doctor Who series 3 to find out just what the hell that was all about.
As the season's over, I've been trying to form some coherent opinions of the whole thing. Not easy. It does have some promise, and I dearly hope the next series will manage to build on the strengths of the format and avoid the, um, attempts at being "adult". For me, the most effective episodes were clearly the ones that actually dealt with issues in a more dignified, mature way, and not the adolescent sense of "ooh, blood, gore, swearing, sex" adultness. And I realised that the episodes that really stood out for me all had to do with the past - Ghost Machine, Small Worlds, Out of Time and Captain Jack Harkness, which were just enough to make me want to keep watching it.
I've also decided that at least as long as I'm allowed, I will "take it easy" with work. In other words, I've been careful to watch my workload and adjust it myself since getting back to work after my sick leave - I've decided to keep my daily load at 6000-6500 words, which I've steadily managed, and try to avoid doing either more words or more hours. Six hours is the absolute maximum I can take now, I think - keeping it at five is better. At least my back aches, which were starting to become pure torture before my extended sick leave, have got less now, on most days they're not even there, so it seems five hours is what my back can actually take of that chair.
I am feeling somewhat guilty over doing short days, but I've got to the point where I do need to take care of myself first and foremost. And objectively speaking, I don't think I'm being lazy or unfair to others, as 6000 words a day should be considered reasonable, I think.
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LOL. I might have guessed :-P. But they are awfully pretty ...
She can make fun of herself as well,
Yeah, that's something that I really appreciate about her.
She can make fun of herself as well, and it's rather nice to hear commentaries by people who obviously enjoyed working on the show and with their co-stars.
It seems that the year she and Roger Delgado joined the cast that things really fell into place - it seems that they really had almonst a family feel to the cast. I bought the DWM special In their own words, Vol. 2, which has comments taken from interviews of the various people involved, covering the Pertwee and the early Tom baker years - until now I've found it to be really interesting.