I hate being sick. :(
I've got the cold from hell. I blame my allergies for giving the bug a nice gooey place to live. Of course, I still have allergies, too, so I'm just having all kinds of fun. I'm missing another day of work today, since I didn't magically get better over the weekend. *sigh*
While slumping around the apartment like a great glob of mucus, I've made myself really lazy vegetarian chili (take two cans of beans, one can of diced tomatoes, one can of Mexican tomato/chili mixture like Ro*tel, dump in a pot and heat) and have been watching the fifth season of the new Doctor Who.
So far, I'm liking this season better again (I liked the first new Doctor and I liked parts of the season with Donna, but hate what they did to her.) because it seems a bit more like old Doctor Who. One of my complaints about the newWho is that the Doctor went from fallible alien do-gooder in a universe where sometimes humans were the good guys and sometimes they weren't to Ultimate Savior God Hero in a universe where everything thinks humans are good on toast. (Slight exaggeration, but only slight.) David Tennant's Doctor was particularly bad for that, which is probably why I only found the Donna season watchable - she kept poking him back towards, for lack of a better word, human (as opposed to USGH) and calling on him to be a better person. And I guess it took, since in his new regeneration he seems more like the old Doctor.
Better still, we have more oldWho like plots, at least some of the time. The space whale episode, for example, seems very much an oldWho plot. (And I love that Amy was the one who figured it out. Yay, we're back to having humans who can actually do something on the show!) I also like that Amy and, after a little bit, Rory are in it for the adventure. I like watching people enthusiastically have adventures. I'm afraid that won't last, but I'm hoping it will.
Well, back to eating lazy chili,coughing out my lungs, and watching Doctor Who.
This entry was originally posted at http://smurasaki.dreamwidth.org/95492.html.
While slumping around the apartment like a great glob of mucus, I've made myself really lazy vegetarian chili (take two cans of beans, one can of diced tomatoes, one can of Mexican tomato/chili mixture like Ro*tel, dump in a pot and heat) and have been watching the fifth season of the new Doctor Who.
So far, I'm liking this season better again (I liked the first new Doctor and I liked parts of the season with Donna, but hate what they did to her.) because it seems a bit more like old Doctor Who. One of my complaints about the newWho is that the Doctor went from fallible alien do-gooder in a universe where sometimes humans were the good guys and sometimes they weren't to Ultimate Savior God Hero in a universe where everything thinks humans are good on toast. (Slight exaggeration, but only slight.) David Tennant's Doctor was particularly bad for that, which is probably why I only found the Donna season watchable - she kept poking him back towards, for lack of a better word, human (as opposed to USGH) and calling on him to be a better person. And I guess it took, since in his new regeneration he seems more like the old Doctor.
Better still, we have more oldWho like plots, at least some of the time. The space whale episode, for example, seems very much an oldWho plot. (And I love that Amy was the one who figured it out. Yay, we're back to having humans who can actually do something on the show!) I also like that Amy and, after a little bit, Rory are in it for the adventure. I like watching people enthusiastically have adventures. I'm afraid that won't last, but I'm hoping it will.
Well, back to eating lazy chili,coughing out my lungs, and watching Doctor Who.
This entry was originally posted at http://smurasaki.dreamwidth.org/95492.html.