Photos, Who, Victorians

[icepixie]

Okay, people, I'm jumping on the photo meme bandwagon. (How could I resist?) Tell me what mundane part of my life you want to see pictures of! Shoes, house, bookcase, computer, my favorite [insert noun here]...whatever. You can even request stuff from Kenyon or Exeter, since, given the amount of pictures I've taken over the last two years, it's not entirely unlikely that I'll have a picture of it.

Heck, request multiple things. I like taking pictures.

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So I watched "Pyramids of Mars" yesterday, and oooh. Sarah Jane is awesome. Competence is so becoming on a companion. Also, pretty dress. Not to mention just the right amount of snark and willingness to talk back to the Doctor. Hee.

The story was...not scary in the least, but that's okay. It was period, and that's cool. Tom Baker's googly eyes still kind of freak me out, though.

The Awesomeness That Is Sarah Jane inspired me to try "Genesis of the Daleks" again, and...it's just. not. happening. It should be interesting, but it's not. I'm somewhere in episode four or five, I think, and I just can't make myself finish it. Perhaps it has something to do with Harry.

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Part of me is giving serious thought to writing the Eight-and-Charley-meet-the-SAJV-gang crossover my brain keeps threatening. And then somehow making Rebecca Fogg Charley's great-great-grandmother or something, because hee.

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Judith Flanders's Inside the Victorian Home is love. Yay for social historians who can write both authoritatively and engagingly. As with all studies in the social history of the later nineteenth century, this makes me think that, had I been born then, around age four I would've gone up to my parents and said something along the lines of, "I've got...a disease...called, um...well, it doesn't matter, but the upshot is that I'm now a boy; please start treaing me like one," so that I could actually, oh, go to school.

Her chapter on servant life is one of the better ones as far as detail goes; in fact, it is so detailed that it makes me want to go lavish praise on the inventor of the washing machine, because OMG, ow. Taking apart a dress and sewing it back together by hand every time you wanted to wash it? Ack.

Comments

[calixa.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's Harry stopping you from watching Genesis of the Daleks; that's just an incredibly hard one to watch. It meandered a lot and I personally found most of it boring. However, it does have one of the best lines everrrrr: HARRY SULLIVAN IS AN IDIOOOOTTTTTT!

. Taking apart a dress and sewing it back together by hand every time you wanted to wash it? Ack.

I would kill myself.

[alorarose.livejournal.com]

oo, take pictures of your room!

[alto2.livejournal.com]

"Pyramids of Mars" is one of the first Four stories I ever saw (or, really, one of the first DW ever), and granted, I was in about ninth grade, so maybe I was 13/14, but Sutekh scared the crap out of me. Not so much while I was watching, but I could not get that image out of my head later that night to save my life. It's one of the first times that ever happened to me, which is why I've become increasingly careful about the images I fill my head with. (That one doesn't really bother me now, though!)

I'm really fascinated by your reaction to "Genesis," though. It's one of those I'd most like to see again, of those I don't have on tape (which are many!). It's such a classic Who story, so I wonder why you're having so much trouble with it? Harry really bothers you? Pity, in any case--maybe come back to it later--I know I've tried books at the "wrong" time and am amazed at coming back to them a few years later how much better they've become ;)

I'd imagine the Victorians were thrilled with being able to wash anything at all--one of the Globe tours I was on in London regaled us with details of the water-soluble vegetable dyes used in Elizabethan clothing, which meant the closest you came to washing them was to air them for a while. Must've been a rather potent experience, standing in the sun for a show at the Globe! Does your book say how often they'd actually go to the trouble to wash a dress? I'd think not so often, unless you had tons of servants?

[nickless.livejournal.com]

I wanna see a picture of all of your Dr. Who paraphenalia. All of it. *g*

[rensong.livejournal.com]

Part of me is giving serious thought to writing the Eight-and-Charley-meet-the-SAJV-gang crossover my brain keeps threatening. And then somehow making Rebecca Fogg Charley's great-great-grandmother or something, because hee.

I would so totally read that!

I wonder if they're ever going to make a Secret Adventures of Jules Verne box set, cause I would buy it. I miss SAJV. ::pouts::

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

Tell me what mundane part of my life you want to see pictures of!

Your mom, obviously.

[wildtiger7.livejournal.com]

Pictures: your favorite location on the planet.

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

I want a picture of the outside of your house. (Assuming that AOL lets me look at it.) Also, a picture of the inside of your fridge.

The Awesomeness That Is Sarah Jane inspired me to try "Genesis of the Daleks" again, and...it's just. not. happening. It should be interesting, but it's not.

Ugh, I still haven't finished my copy of that. I think I got stuck somewhere around the endless bits of Sarah Jane Hanging Off A Scaffolding. Some More. and then decided that... I'd rather be doing schoolwork than watching tv. Which is just sad. Yay for New Who! (Which I just watched, by the way. FWAH.)

[elflore.livejournal.com]

Sarah is indeed teh awesome. *g* Genesis...isn't bad, but it suffers the same problem a lot of the Who six parters did...it feels padded like crazy. Plus Terry Nation, creator of the Daleks, had that tendency in his stories...he very much wrote pulp serials, collections of adventurous events which often aren't so important to the plot.

Harry was a sweet guy, but generally superfluous. They invented him before Tom Baker was cast, not knowing if the new Doctor was going to be an athletic, action type...apparently they were thinking he might end up more First Doctor-like, more of an old man again, in which case they'd need an Ian Chesterton. (Dunno if you've seen any first Doc yet, but Ian is *awesome*.)

Who, SAJV Xover: Despite never having seen SAJV, this sounds great to me. *g*

Oh, and I've been meaning to ask you...how are you liking Anansi Boys?