Old school Who plus fic writing = glee

[auntiemeesh]

Tonight was a Doctor Who night. The Hand of Fear came (Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane) came up in the rotation on my Netflix queue. Sadly, most of my thoughts on it centered around two things. One: Sarah Jane was dressed like a child, and while possessed by Eldrad, she spoke with the speech rhythms of a child, as well. I pondered the significance of this, but came up empty. Two: when Eldrad was in female form, she used guile and subterfuge to get what she wanted, and when she regenerated in male form, he roared and stomped and generally chewed up the scenery like a barely housebroken beast. I found this interesting, since the being inside the form should have been the same at all times, regardless of form, and since Eldrad knew next to nothing of humans when she first took on her female form, it seems unlikely she'd have enough of a psycho-emotional grasp of our behaviors to reckon out the differences in behavior. Again, I pondered the significance and came up empty. But it was a mostly light story arc, no one was put into serious danger (except poor Dr. Carter, who died), they played with the idea of silicone-based life-forms, traveled to distant planets, dealt with egomaniacal bad guys who didn't realize they'd lost their wars millions of years ago, and in the end, said good-bye to Sarah Jane. I think I liked it.

The next Who on my list is moving backwards, to The Brain of Morbius. But tomorrow I should get the first couple discs of Sports Night. Always something different popping up.

On a totally different topic, I was moderately fic-productive tonight. I wrote just over 1500 words, which is half again what it took me all the previous month to write, so maybe I'm getting back into the flow of this writing thing. Yay!

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[eve11]

Again, I pondered the significance and came up empty.

Don't forget to include the wonderfully meta "pre-conceived notions of 1970's writers regarding gender". *sighs*

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, there is that. I tend to forget about such things, which is silly.

OT, I'm feeling much better, so I think I'll be good for the gym tomorrow if you are.