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We had a bit of excitement last night. I fell asleep on the couch and when I woke up, I was all cruddy and overheated. I tried to get up and basically fell off the couch. Eventually I struggled up and stumbled into the bathroom to take a cold shower (managing to stub my toe along the way.) I remember sitting down against the wall in the bathroom and then, apparently, there was a thump and an "oof" sound from me. The boy looked in to check on me and I was, according to him, lying on the floor twitching with my eyes half-open. He tried to wake me up and I came around with no memory of the past minute or so (as is usual in these cases, I guess.) As I said to him, I think I passed out from "manly heatstroke." Though that seems kind of weird since it couldn't have been over 70 degrees inside. I was probably dehydrated though. A couple glasses of water and a cold wet washcloth and the new Doctor Who fixed me right up. Felt a bit shaky for a while, but I'm fine now. Though still a bit freaked out by the twitching thing. Yuck, twitching. Is that a sign of heatstroke? I should research.
I have been getting into Doctor Who rather a lot lately. Which inspired me to write this:
11 Signs of Oncoming Fannish Obsession:
1. I decide that I have to see all seasons or all related media.
2. I feel that I must see/read them in order (if it's books and I read the earlier ones a while ago, I must go back and read them all from the beginning.)
3. I begin to avoid spoilers (actually this is a two-stage process - when I am first becoming interested in the show, I will often seek out spoilers, but once I have become obsessed I usually avoid them.)
4. I start writing down quotes from the object of fannishness.
5. I start reading fanfiction for it.
6. I start bookmarking the fanfiction I read for it.
7. I download pictures of the actors.
8. I contemplate screencapping episodes and consider which shots would work best for icons.
9. I start jotting down ideas for fanfiction I could write for it.
10. I begin collecting music from the soundtrack and eventually make a mix cd of the music.
I've definitely got #1 for Doctor Who, but not yet #2. #4 started last week and I'm teetering on the edge of #5 (which is really the definitive step toward fannishness for me - if I start reading the fanfic and like it, there's no going back.) Yes on #8 and #10 as well. That makes four out of ten, which sounds about right. It makes me a little nervous actually, since I'm not sure I'm really ready for a new fandom and the attendant craziness that will ensue. Especially since it will probably pull me away from SGA fandom, which I still feel like I'm just getting a grip on. I'm a bit mono-fannish. Oh, and there's another possible sign-of-fannishness specific to Doctor Who, which is "I feel like speaking with a British accent all the time."
I thoroughly enjoyed the latest episode, though I'd like to see it again a couple more times to understand it better. We're planning to have a mini-marathon of the entire three-parter once the next comes out. I think it was when "Voodoo Child" started playing that I went, okay this show really is INSANE. That was fantastic! Made more so by the fact that I was already thinking about that song because of the title of the ep. And gay, oh man, the gay. Even being the total newbie to this show that I am, I couldn't miss the obvious Master/Doctor and Jack/Doctor stuff. I suppose to those who've seen the show before that's old hat, but for someone who mostly watches U.S. TV (which I now realize is crap - yes, the British totally win at TV) anything that openly slashy on a mainstream show is kind of wide-eyed-lust-inducing. *cough* Or um, something.
The thing I think is really brilliant about DW, above all else that I've yet noticed, is the way it can take these horrible sci-fi cliches (subliminal messages conveyed through the media, the heartless robot falling in love with the girl in Dalek, the alien invasion in World War Three... I've mostly been watching Nine so far - I'm sure there's many more I haven't encountered yet) and make me not give a damn, because as a whole it's so awesome. I wasn't at all surprised when I heard it used to be a show for kids. There's just something about the way the characters are presented that makes me think "kids show" (at least in Nine, I'm not so sure about Ten.) I think it's partly that the dialogue is often very emotionally straightforward. Probably deceptively so, actually. Except for the Doctor who's got the whole mysterious backstory, they seem to say what they're thinking or else be very obvious about it. There's also that "I can see the moral coming five miles away" thing you get on kids shows. Does anyone know what I mean? I tried to explain this to my housemates but they didn't really get it.
I have been getting into Doctor Who rather a lot lately. Which inspired me to write this:
11 Signs of Oncoming Fannish Obsession:
1. I decide that I have to see all seasons or all related media.
2. I feel that I must see/read them in order (if it's books and I read the earlier ones a while ago, I must go back and read them all from the beginning.)
3. I begin to avoid spoilers (actually this is a two-stage process - when I am first becoming interested in the show, I will often seek out spoilers, but once I have become obsessed I usually avoid them.)
4. I start writing down quotes from the object of fannishness.
5. I start reading fanfiction for it.
6. I start bookmarking the fanfiction I read for it.
7. I download pictures of the actors.
8. I contemplate screencapping episodes and consider which shots would work best for icons.
9. I start jotting down ideas for fanfiction I could write for it.
10. I begin collecting music from the soundtrack and eventually make a mix cd of the music.
I've definitely got #1 for Doctor Who, but not yet #2. #4 started last week and I'm teetering on the edge of #5 (which is really the definitive step toward fannishness for me - if I start reading the fanfic and like it, there's no going back.) Yes on #8 and #10 as well. That makes four out of ten, which sounds about right. It makes me a little nervous actually, since I'm not sure I'm really ready for a new fandom and the attendant craziness that will ensue. Especially since it will probably pull me away from SGA fandom, which I still feel like I'm just getting a grip on. I'm a bit mono-fannish. Oh, and there's another possible sign-of-fannishness specific to Doctor Who, which is "I feel like speaking with a British accent all the time."
I thoroughly enjoyed the latest episode, though I'd like to see it again a couple more times to understand it better. We're planning to have a mini-marathon of the entire three-parter once the next comes out. I think it was when "Voodoo Child" started playing that I went, okay this show really is INSANE. That was fantastic! Made more so by the fact that I was already thinking about that song because of the title of the ep. And gay, oh man, the gay. Even being the total newbie to this show that I am, I couldn't miss the obvious Master/Doctor and Jack/Doctor stuff. I suppose to those who've seen the show before that's old hat, but for someone who mostly watches U.S. TV (which I now realize is crap - yes, the British totally win at TV) anything that openly slashy on a mainstream show is kind of wide-eyed-lust-inducing. *cough* Or um, something.
The thing I think is really brilliant about DW, above all else that I've yet noticed, is the way it can take these horrible sci-fi cliches (subliminal messages conveyed through the media, the heartless robot falling in love with the girl in Dalek, the alien invasion in World War Three... I've mostly been watching Nine so far - I'm sure there's many more I haven't encountered yet) and make me not give a damn, because as a whole it's so awesome. I wasn't at all surprised when I heard it used to be a show for kids. There's just something about the way the characters are presented that makes me think "kids show" (at least in Nine, I'm not so sure about Ten.) I think it's partly that the dialogue is often very emotionally straightforward. Probably deceptively so, actually. Except for the Doctor who's got the whole mysterious backstory, they seem to say what they're thinking or else be very obvious about it. There's also that "I can see the moral coming five miles away" thing you get on kids shows. Does anyone know what I mean? I tried to explain this to my housemates but they didn't really get it.
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