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Nov. 3rd, 2014 07:39 amThe second day of my Post Every Day resolution and I have been thwarted by technology! Yesterday my laptop's fan stopped working. It can be fixed, but it may be a while. (I'm writing this from my brother's computer, which he has kindly lent me.)
This is an extra shame, since the reason I didn't post in the early afternoon is that the folks and I had plans yesterday to watch the Second Doctor serial The Web of Fear in the evening, and I thought I might try liveblogging it. That didn't happen, but we did watch the first four episodes! (Out of six - we'll finish up soon.)
The folks have watched a lot of New Who, but are pretty much context free for most of Old Who. They've seen An Unearthly Child, which kind of shocked Mom at how flat out awful and frightening the Doctor is in it, and Mom has seen some of The Invasion which convinced her she likes the Second Doctor. (Dad made us watch the ENTIRE Caveman Politics story that follows Unearthly Child, which gets worse every time I see it I swear, but he insisted he was enjoying himself.)
This meant me needing to explain when exactly Victoria and Jamie are from. The folks, of course, having seen New Who pretty much exclusively, are not really that used to companions who don't know basic common sense rules of the twentieth century, like "Don't try to walk on the railroad tracks."
This is an extra shame, since the reason I didn't post in the early afternoon is that the folks and I had plans yesterday to watch the Second Doctor serial The Web of Fear in the evening, and I thought I might try liveblogging it. That didn't happen, but we did watch the first four episodes! (Out of six - we'll finish up soon.)
The folks have watched a lot of New Who, but are pretty much context free for most of Old Who. They've seen An Unearthly Child, which kind of shocked Mom at how flat out awful and frightening the Doctor is in it, and Mom has seen some of The Invasion which convinced her she likes the Second Doctor. (Dad made us watch the ENTIRE Caveman Politics story that follows Unearthly Child, which gets worse every time I see it I swear, but he insisted he was enjoying himself.)
This meant me needing to explain when exactly Victoria and Jamie are from. The folks, of course, having seen New Who pretty much exclusively, are not really that used to companions who don't know basic common sense rules of the twentieth century, like "Don't try to walk on the railroad tracks."
