update of updateness

[ladymercury_10]

Via elisi: it appears the recent LJ modifications may not be as disastrous as they first appeared?  As summarized here, there will be some customizability, including the ability to switch off infinite scroll (thank goodness).  Also, paid accounts aren't really going away--if you have one, you'll still have one, it looks like, and if you don't have one yet, you'll be able to just buy the features you want, instead of a bundle.  If you have a paid account when that happens, it looks like you may also get some special privileges?

So that's good.  I think?  I hope.

In other news: I am very excited to get my Yuletide assignment, I don't understand permutation groups so I expect that at least one of the proofs I wrote up for my homework makes no sense (oh well), and I have once again gotten overly ambitious with the borrowing of library books and comics. (Batgirl!  Batman!  The Great Gatsby!  Wait, what?  Who thought it was a good idea to give me library cards?) 

Oh!  And I started poking at the nearly-infinite Doctor Who backlog.  I started watching in 2010, so I've seen all of Moffat Who, somewhere between half and two thirds of RTD Who, and two Fourth Doctor serials.  But I read Classic and Multi-era fanfic sometimes, and I was on an Ace/Hex fanfic binge the other day, and I thought, hmm, maybe I should, you know, actually watch some Seven-era.  So I watched Ghost Light, and I didn't understand a lick of the plot, but it was fun and spooky and Seven was great.  He is much calmer than the Doctors I am used to, and also very scary when he wants to be.  And Ace!  She was actually less big and tough, somehow, than I expected her to be, but she seems like a good companion.  Although--were the TV acting guidelines different in the 80s?  It seemed a bit melodramatic to me.  But the school library had Remembrance of the Daleks, so that's on my desk, waiting and hoping for my legendarily poor TV attention span to return to it. :P

Comments

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

THERE'S A TURING EXPY IN CURSE OF FENRIC. And some, uh, very off-label uses of Enigma machines. And the writer originally wanted a subplot about how not!Turing got screwed over for being gay, but the BBC put their foot down about sympathetic portrayals of homosexuality, so it got shunted into a slightly awkward physical-disability metaphor.

Classic Who is, for the most part, meant to be watchable out of order, therefore "draw a random serial out of a hat" is a perfectly valid approach. Ace has a loose character arc, but watching the end first doesn't make the beginning less terrific--more that the climactic scene in Fenric is richer if you know what's gone before. And, honestly, Fenric is too rich already. It's like mythology cheesecake topped with a two-inch-thick layer of dark-chocolate subtext frosting, it doesn't really need the character-arc maple syrup drizzled on top.

First Doctor era is one of the few I've been doing in order, actually, and I'm only up through part of The Aztecs (which is really good so far). Definitely watch the very first installment of An Unearthly Child, though you can skip the other three if you want. I'm really tempted to say "just watch aaaallll the serials so you can see the show finding its feet" but that probably would not be practical. I have heard consistently good things about both The Aztecs and The Romans.

Also, Martha is in fact the best. :D *high five*

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

THIS SOUNDS LIKE THE BEST EPISODE. And that kind of sucks about the BBC not letting them put in that subplot, but I can't say I'm surprised, seeing as it took the British government until, like, 2009 to issue a formal apology for what happened to the real Turing. :/

Definitely watch the very first installment of An Unearthly Child, though you can skip the other three if you want.
You can just watch part of the serial? Is the plot not very important?

Also, Martha is in fact the best. :D *high five*
*returns high five* :D