And I don't want to turn the heat on, because then my house will reek like a gas furnace that's been off for a few weeks :-\
Ick. Sucky. That's another reason I'm glad to live in the land of electric heat pumps... (Although on those rare, dipping-into-the-teens days, ours is totally useless and we shiver through the day--but no smell.)
I find this such a fascinating phenomenon, not least because you're not the only person I know who's said the same thing. And it highlights what I was afraid of when Who came back--that having a budget would mean that effects would be the focus, and not good storytelling.
If Rusty just wouldn't write episodes...? *sigh* I think they really got off-track with the whole Lonely God thing. Bah.
Sure, there are plenty of goofy Old Who stories, but somehow they're more likeable.
YES! The goofiness was what made them likeable! Now they're trying to mix goofy with Buffy, and it's not going well.
I have to say that I did find the first ep an improvement over last year, if only because Ten's god complex was conspicuously (and welcomely!) absent. And Martha seems cool. But it's still a Goofy Silly RTD Script With No Discernable Point Or Logic, so...
Hmmm. I like the absence of the god complex, but the lack of point troubles me. Although I can deal with lack of logic, after weeks of dS... ;)
I'm not sure I've read Passage since I was in high school, or shortly thereafter, so my memory is fuzzy and I should probably read it again, because your reaction is going to fly right over my head, my recollection is so fuzzy (it mostly consists of "OMG, love that book!").
It strikes me as something that would be mostly lost on high schoolers, but maybe not. Beautiful descriptions, though.
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Date: 2007-04-06 03:02 am (UTC)Ick. Sucky. That's another reason I'm glad to live in the land of electric heat pumps... (Although on those rare, dipping-into-the-teens days, ours is totally useless and we shiver through the day--but no smell.)
I find this such a fascinating phenomenon, not least because you're not the only person I know who's said the same thing. And it highlights what I was afraid of when Who came back--that having a budget would mean that effects would be the focus, and not good storytelling.
If Rusty just wouldn't write episodes...? *sigh* I think they really got off-track with the whole Lonely God thing. Bah.
Sure, there are plenty of goofy Old Who stories, but somehow they're more likeable.
YES! The goofiness was what made them likeable! Now they're trying to mix goofy with Buffy, and it's not going well.
I have to say that I did find the first ep an improvement over last year, if only because Ten's god complex was conspicuously (and welcomely!) absent. And Martha seems cool. But it's still a Goofy Silly RTD Script With No Discernable Point Or Logic, so...
Hmmm. I like the absence of the god complex, but the lack of point troubles me. Although I can deal with lack of logic, after weeks of dS... ;)
I'm not sure I've read Passage since I was in high school, or shortly thereafter, so my memory is fuzzy and I should probably read it again, because your reaction is going to fly right over my head, my recollection is so fuzzy (it mostly consists of "OMG, love that book!").
It strikes me as something that would be mostly lost on high schoolers, but maybe not. Beautiful descriptions, though.