chronicles of meme
"Waters of Mars" was pretty much what I expected. The same faceless horde invasion story told for the nth time, with a barely humanized cast of walking skill sets comprising progressive-family-TV-appropriate proportions of genders, ethnicities and nationalities and a range of attitudes from the optimist-realist-pessimist sliding scale of personality. "Midnight" was probably the last episode to do this plot decently.
Russell T. Davies' boner for god complexes is both disgusting and intrusive into what might otherwise be decent writing for television. His solid-lead-handed, shallow as an oil slick political and social commentary doesn't help.
I am not so much intrigued by the Christmas special as I am morbidly fascinated by the closure it may bring to a chapter of a franchise that has been shat on by its creator more than any other franchise I have ever known.
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Moving on.
Day 1: a song
Day 2: a picture
Day 3: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day 4: a site
Day 5: a youtube clip
Day 6: a quote
Day 7: whatever tickles your fancy
A fraction of my collection of favorite quotes.
"But in Tolstoy, just as in Plato and Plotinus, the thought of death is accompanied by a particular sentiment, by a kind of consciousness that, even while horror rose before them, wings were growing in their backs."
-A letter from Lev Shestov to his daughters. Third paragraph - the whole thing. But it's too long to post here for just a meme.
"Don't be afraid; people are so afraid; don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone...Learn at least this: What you are capable of. Let nothing stand in your way."
-Roy Cohn in Tony Kushner's Angels in America. Don't necessarily agree with the sentiment, but the cadence and power of the statement gives me chills.
"On a journey, ill,
And over fields all withered, dreams
Go wandering still."
-Basho
And of course T.S. Eliot in general, but for the sake of brevity, these:
"After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The shouting and the crying
Prison and palace and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience."
-from The Waste Land, V: What the Thunder Said
"Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind
Cannot bear very much reality."
-from Burnt Norton, I.
"That which is only living
Can only die."
-from Burnt Norton, V.
Russell T. Davies' boner for god complexes is both disgusting and intrusive into what might otherwise be decent writing for television. His solid-lead-handed, shallow as an oil slick political and social commentary doesn't help.
I am not so much intrigued by the Christmas special as I am morbidly fascinated by the closure it may bring to a chapter of a franchise that has been shat on by its creator more than any other franchise I have ever known.
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Moving on.
Day 1: a song
Day 2: a picture
Day 3: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day 4: a site
Day 5: a youtube clip
Day 6: a quote
Day 7: whatever tickles your fancy
A fraction of my collection of favorite quotes.
"But in Tolstoy, just as in Plato and Plotinus, the thought of death is accompanied by a particular sentiment, by a kind of consciousness that, even while horror rose before them, wings were growing in their backs."
-A letter from Lev Shestov to his daughters. Third paragraph - the whole thing. But it's too long to post here for just a meme.
"Don't be afraid; people are so afraid; don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone...Learn at least this: What you are capable of. Let nothing stand in your way."
-Roy Cohn in Tony Kushner's Angels in America. Don't necessarily agree with the sentiment, but the cadence and power of the statement gives me chills.
"On a journey, ill,
And over fields all withered, dreams
Go wandering still."
-Basho
And of course T.S. Eliot in general, but for the sake of brevity, these:
"After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The shouting and the crying
Prison and palace and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience."
-from The Waste Land, V: What the Thunder Said
"Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind
Cannot bear very much reality."
-from Burnt Norton, I.
"That which is only living
Can only die."
-from Burnt Norton, V.