Beyond the Roundels

:lol: You know it was a metaphorical question - but true; I was forgetting it was the 25th yesterday.

Yes, but that specific bit was, with Amy being 'wrong', so I'm just wondering how the TARDIS vibe will be now. In a good way.

Study Press Gang, and then his DW eps, I suppose! :lol: (Not too painful...)

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Yes I did know it was RHETORICAL (Metaphorical? I don't think so!) but I thought it worth mentioning since it is almost exactly 6 months away...

No, something River said to the Doctor just before she left, linked into what had already gone before to tie in with what's to come.

I barely remember Press Gang.

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I had no brain left last night whatsoever. :-(

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Aw, never mind - I still luffs you! :P

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I'll have to get my thoughts in proper order wrt Doctor Who, but I'm positive that the TARDIS's arrival at the wedding was the most emotional moment. I do wonder what version of events Amy and Rory remember by the end of the story, though...

(I have about four hairbands in at the moment).

JPEG! JPEG!

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Oh, I don't know. It had quite a lot of them. I'd have to do some seriuos rewatching to decide.

They've come out now. :-P (Besides, I know to do pngs these days.)

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For a photo rather than an icon, JPEG compression doesn't hurt so much. This picture of Morphoton was 949k as a PNG, 85k as a JPEG, and there's no visible difference in the quality.

Edited Date: 2010-06-26 09:49 pm (UTC)

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Yes, I was only being a bit facetious. All my proper photos are stored as jpegs still.

Which, of course, begs the question, where do you keep your time machine to be taking pics like that? :lol:

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Screencaps from the DVD 'photo gallery' extra :-)

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I've so got to stop being facetious.

;-p

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And I've got to stop rising to obvious bait :-p

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...but in the meantime, it gives us something to talk about. :-)

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Hee. It WAS very fairytale, wasn't it? :)

Also, the Asimov fan in me LOVED the Nightfall shoutout. :)

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It was! :-) I'll have to rewatch it because right now my reaction is just a big Awwww, and I'll need to find out whether it's justified, but the bit about the TARDIS... oh, that was brilliant whatever else was or wasn't.

You'll have to enlighten me. I read Lije Bailey books (after all, The Robots of Death is based on The Naked Sun - I had to go and find it!), some of the others and all of the Foundation books (the ending of which annoyed me to death. Heh.) but I don't think I ever read Nightfall.

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You have no read Nightfall? but but but but but you MUST. Unless you're not a big fan of Asimov. But still you must. It's THE science fiction classic!

Anyway, one world, 6 suns, so there's no such thing as night, they *know* they're all alone in the universe and that the universe is only their planet and the suns, etc. Except for one day every 5492874 years.... and then the stars come out!

It's a brilliant story and he and Silverberg added a beginning and an end and made a brilliant book out of it. :)

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Oh, no, that sounds really cool. I read my way through what Bridgwater and Aberystwyth libraries had of his back in the late 90s, but after my disappointment at the conclusion of the Foundation books, and given that I'd read most of the others, I never really thought about chasing up the few I hadn't. That one sounds excellent. I'll see if I can get my hands on it tomorrow at the library.

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Do that do that YAY!

By the ending of the Foundation books do you mean the original ending (The Second Foundation) or the new books? I love The Second Foundation, but I agree that the sequels he wrote later were not as good. And when he combined them with the robots... no, just no. I loved the robots, loved Foundation, but sometimes people don't know when to stop :(

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I will - depends of course whether we have it anywhere in the system, and where. I might need to put in an ILL request for it, if not. (For the moment, I still have staff access to 13 libraries, and free ILL requests. This is my one real perk of my... previous job (drat), but I feel it's a pretty big one!)

Yes, I mean the sequels. I liked the first couple a lot, but I was really put off by the later ones. I enjoyed them, mind,k to a degree, but then the final conclusion - no. Just, no. :lol: I agree with you entirely - the combination of the two as it went on, took away from both original sets quite a bit.

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