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[remindmeofthe]

Another two-weeks-in-one post!



Week of April 8:

Television:

Doctor Who 7x07, "The Rings of Akhaten"

Week of April 15:

Books:

* Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church, Lauren Drain and Lisa Pulitzer (Finished reading this on the fifteenth, discovered the next day that the WBC intended to picket the funerals of the Boston bombing victims because apparently the bombing was God's punishment for gay marriage, was not even one teeny bit surprised.)
* Beyond Belief, Jenna Miscavige Hill and Lisa Pulitzer (Reread at the same time by coincidence. It was interesting to compare the two in terms of Pulitzer's work. She is an excellent cowriter with a gift for helping non-writers tell their own stories in their own voices.)
* Slated, Teri Terry
* Ultraviolet, RJ Anderson
* Quicksilver, RJ Anderson

Television:

Doctor Who 7x08, "Cold War" (DW is becoming that show that I still watch because I can't quit just yet. And because if I don't keep up, half my Tumblr dash will become more incomprehensible. This ep was an improvement over the last two, but I'm not holding my breath.)
Panorama, "Inside North Korea"

Movies:

The Cabin in the Woods (One of my favorites, and if you've seen it, you know exactly why I felt it was appropriate viewing for a week in which the world was completely horrible and it was only Tuesday. Had I known it would get worse, I might have saved it for the weekend.)

Comments

[tenlittlebullets]

Re Who: have hope! This past weekend's episode felt like proper Doctor Who again. Well, 'Cold War' felt like a proper Doctor Who filler episode, but 'Hide' is good Doctor Who. Has a few of the same writing problems as 'Rings of Akhaten,' but around the edges instead of front and center. Front and center is Three-era setting, Four-era gothic horror, Seven-era manipulation and mindfuckery, and Ten-era guilt and dysfunction. Also a ghost story that will scare the pants off small children and a time-travel story that scared the pants off me.