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fandom_stocking has started up again! I really regretted not getting involved last year so have already signed up myself and started bookmarking other people's letters - let me know where yours are! ♥
- I finished The Wanderer by Fanny Burney yesterday, which is sort of a good thing because it is a Mighty Tome and I was getting tired of lugging it around, but also sad as I was enjoying it. It's not her best work and it has the same problem as Richardson's Clarissa in that every now and then you want to climb into the book and tell the heroine that she doesn't have to be quite that impeccably virtuous all the time, honest (I loved the bit where Giles Arbe guilted the heroine into using some of Harleigh's money to pay the tradesmen she owed money to, on the grounds that they need the money more than she needs her principles), but it's well written and engrossing (even though the blurb on the back of my copy contained SIGNIFICANT SPOILERS, which given that the identity and history of the heroine is meant to be a mystery is rather annoying) and I enjoyed reading it. It succeeds beautifully at what it sets out to do, i.e. demonstrating how hard late eighteenth century society makes it for a young woman who wants to live independently without compromising herself.
- Quick thoughts on The Android Invasion, which I watched the other day:
+ OK, the aliens' plan is... bizarre, to say the least. Never mind.
+ The first episode is genuinely creepy, as is SARAH JANE'S FACE FALLING OFF. Yes, that freaked me out enough to deserve capslock, even though I'd seen the clip before.
+ Ian Marter is once again great as evil Harry... BUT I was v. sadface that the story contained so much Android!Harry and Android!Benton and so little real Harry. He never gets a proper goodbye scene and it makes me so sad. WHY, SHOW, WHY? Plus there was no Brigadier, just an inferior substitute, though apparently this is because Nick Courtney had other commitments, which is fair enough.
+ I was going to judge Sarah Jane's outfit but it actually really suited her and wasn't as bad as I thought on first glance. If it hadn't been all pink it would have been great.
+ Yay, Lis Sladen got a chance to do her "this slope I have fallen down is REALLY REALLY STEEP, honest" acting! ♥
fandom_stocking has started up again! I really regretted not getting involved last year so have already signed up myself and started bookmarking other people's letters - let me know where yours are! ♥- I finished The Wanderer by Fanny Burney yesterday, which is sort of a good thing because it is a Mighty Tome and I was getting tired of lugging it around, but also sad as I was enjoying it. It's not her best work and it has the same problem as Richardson's Clarissa in that every now and then you want to climb into the book and tell the heroine that she doesn't have to be quite that impeccably virtuous all the time, honest (I loved the bit where Giles Arbe guilted the heroine into using some of Harleigh's money to pay the tradesmen she owed money to, on the grounds that they need the money more than she needs her principles), but it's well written and engrossing (even though the blurb on the back of my copy contained SIGNIFICANT SPOILERS, which given that the identity and history of the heroine is meant to be a mystery is rather annoying) and I enjoyed reading it. It succeeds beautifully at what it sets out to do, i.e. demonstrating how hard late eighteenth century society makes it for a young woman who wants to live independently without compromising herself.
- Quick thoughts on The Android Invasion, which I watched the other day:
+ OK, the aliens' plan is... bizarre, to say the least. Never mind.
+ The first episode is genuinely creepy, as is SARAH JANE'S FACE FALLING OFF. Yes, that freaked me out enough to deserve capslock, even though I'd seen the clip before.
+ Ian Marter is once again great as evil Harry... BUT I was v. sadface that the story contained so much Android!Harry and Android!Benton and so little real Harry. He never gets a proper goodbye scene and it makes me so sad. WHY, SHOW, WHY? Plus there was no Brigadier, just an inferior substitute, though apparently this is because Nick Courtney had other commitments, which is fair enough.
+ I was going to judge Sarah Jane's outfit but it actually really suited her and wasn't as bad as I thought on first glance. If it hadn't been all pink it would have been great.
+ Yay, Lis Sladen got a chance to do her "this slope I have fallen down is REALLY REALLY STEEP, honest" acting! ♥