Deja vu who?
Aug. 2nd, 2007 09:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eponymous_roseSo I just finished reading "The Domino Effect" - yet another Eighth Doctor novel. Excellent idea, really clever and all, but the writing was a definite weak point (and, uh, characterization? hello?) and the potential for awesomesauce sort of wound up wasted with repetitive and wonky plots from the midpoint on. All it really did was increase my desire to read "The Turing Test".
That said, I did have a totally bizarre and extremely intense sense of deja vu at one point - the little bit where it's all let's-talk-about-Turing and he mentions that he used to plant his broken toy soldiers in the ground, hoping they'd grow back fully healed. I mean, yes, cute image and all that, but for some reason it really hit me. In fact, I almost fell out of my chair - though that could well have been because I have the terrible habit of putting my feet up on the desk beside my laptop and leaning too far back, and therefore tend to fall over every few minutes anyway. Anyway! I get the impression that I saw some cartoon as a kid that had this specific image in it, and that it made a powerful impact on lil' old me (or, uh, lil' young me). I've got a sort of freeze-frame in my head that's all lugubrious blues and dark oranges and a hand planting toy soldiers. What the heck was that from? That'll bother me.
Anyway, random deja vu aside.
I bought all that junk food and then sat down at the computer and had the overpowering urge to eat an apple! Quelle décéption! And the plot thickens. Will those Glosette raisins ever get eaten? Or will they, like so many others, merely melt away in the cruel, cruel heat? Who will mourn the chocolate-covered goodness? Tune in next time for all the answers! (Ooh, and the Friday Five!)
That said, I did have a totally bizarre and extremely intense sense of deja vu at one point - the little bit where it's all let's-talk-about-Turing and he mentions that he used to plant his broken toy soldiers in the ground, hoping they'd grow back fully healed. I mean, yes, cute image and all that, but for some reason it really hit me. In fact, I almost fell out of my chair - though that could well have been because I have the terrible habit of putting my feet up on the desk beside my laptop and leaning too far back, and therefore tend to fall over every few minutes anyway. Anyway! I get the impression that I saw some cartoon as a kid that had this specific image in it, and that it made a powerful impact on lil' old me (or, uh, lil' young me). I've got a sort of freeze-frame in my head that's all lugubrious blues and dark oranges and a hand planting toy soldiers. What the heck was that from? That'll bother me.
Anyway, random deja vu aside.
I bought all that junk food and then sat down at the computer and had the overpowering urge to eat an apple! Quelle décéption! And the plot thickens. Will those Glosette raisins ever get eaten? Or will they, like so many others, merely melt away in the cruel, cruel heat? Who will mourn the chocolate-covered goodness? Tune in next time for all the answers! (Ooh, and the Friday Five!)
