Sock It to Me

Over on tumblr I used the number that time travels your Likes so I have been in 2013 seeing only things I Liked once already.
... my queue is a week long and unlikely to shrink any time soon.

I can see that this is not an unalloyed good nor an entirely productive use of my time but
I am not doing a whole lot else.


I did listen a bunch of Doctor Who audios. I am getting very close to actually having listened to all the Monthly Range. Which would catch me up to 2021, except for... all the ways it doesn't. I'm feeling sort of flat about them though so I haven't been reviewing because the main determinant of my reaction is being in that phase where I remember Doctor Who isn't Life but don't have any better ideas.

Shadow of the Daleks was an interesting collection of ideas that, for me, outstayed its welcome, by a couple of episodes. The idea of refracting characters out into aspects or disconnected incarnations is more compelling than the bits ended up being. But I liked lots of the parts and might have liked it more if I didn't listen it all in a row.

Faithful Friends did some good stuff with the Doctor and Zoe but I stalled in the middle for too long to actually get the most out of it. Exact opposite problem. I think I liked the bits with the Lupari. I'm not sure the last story really worked for me, since it sort of undid itself, but being stuck on a date with the Doctor that keeps going Doctor Who certainly had some mileage.

Alixion did interesting stuff with fears and memories and things not being as bad as fear memory made them. But I know I've forgotten most of the corners that did not involve Ace. Interesting bits, not sure about the whole.

The Halloween set struck me as very Torchwood for a Doctor Who set. Some of it was the thing where the Doctor isn't there so bad things just Happen and stay Happened. Some of it the Doctor was there for but it was families messing themselves up so he could only fix the edges where the alien stuff happened, not the messed up religion or the horrors of war. I did like the 8th Doctor adventure and the resolving things with acceptance. That ending had hope in it. The others had too many dead lesbians for one box set, to my mind. And the one with the weeping angels was messed up and dark even by Torchwood standards. ( Read more... ) So if you were looking for a proper Halloween horror it was a good box set, but I hadn't calibrated my expectations quite right and it was not quite what I was after.


Doctor Who feels like snack crisps and chocolates when I need vegetables, but I haven't found what else to do instead.



I have a plot bunny in my head that I have very nearly almost rotated into being a whole story, but as per usual it depends on epic crossover rules and is in that sliver where it's pretty out of character for named characters but too close to them to call original characters. It nearly works, if you know two editions of Pathfinder rules and care about characters from DW and DC and more. So it don't work.

I rotate it nonetheless.


And I keep not communicating. People are interesting but I mostly feel like I need a bit more sleep and I'll reply things when the words go. And then it's a new week and the words did not in fact go.


November.


Hope you all have better days.