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tree_and_leafNinety years ago today, the Battle of the Somme began; the details are too well known to be rehearsed here. A miserable, sad business: sorrow for all those young men, both those who never came home and for those who did, is the dominant note, I think, albeit tinged with pride at the courage shown - and horror at what humanity can do. The best and worst in our natures lies so close together.
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Date: 2006-07-01 03:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-07-01 07:15 pm (UTC)And completely OT: How was tonight's Doctor Who? Bad? Mediocre? Good? Awesome?
(I don't dare look at any reaction posts right now for fear of spoilers. I know far too much about the finale already.)
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Date: 2006-07-01 07:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-01 07:25 pm (UTC)Argh, I can't wait till tomorrow morning. I think I'll go now and console myself by watching The Ribos Operation. At least, there's not too much suspense involved in serials that aired about 35 years ago.
*puts her hands in her pockets and whistles*
Date: 2006-07-01 07:54 pm (UTC)And I really DON'T care for teasers before the theme tune.
Not that it's as good as the theme tune was in Hartnell's day...
/grumpy old nostalgist.
Re: *puts her hands in her pockets and whistles*
Date: 2006-07-01 08:36 pm (UTC)But the new series should have more two-parters, really.
Not that it's as good as the theme tune was in Hartnell's day...
/grumpy old nostalgist.
Yeah, back then when the show was truly excellent and you watched all the First Doctor episodes as soon as they were first aired... :) -- Oh wait, you grumpy old nostalgist are actually four months younger than me! Hmph.
Re: *puts her hands in her pockets and whistles*
Date: 2006-07-01 08:40 pm (UTC)Re: *puts her hands in her pockets and whistles*
Date: 2006-07-01 08:40 pm (UTC)But I do genuinely think that the First Doctor theme was musically much better than the current, which is just a mess. Very possibly preferable to the 'eighties one, though (which IS the one I grew up with, so...)
Re: *puts her hands in her pockets and whistles*
Date: 2006-07-01 09:17 pm (UTC)Is it only me (tone-deaf as I am), or did they pick up on the 1980s version in the closing credits theme of the current season?
Re: *puts her hands in her pockets and whistles*
Date: 2006-07-01 09:29 pm (UTC)I'm quite fond of Hartnell, and it's one of the few Who eras I have a ship for (Ian/Barbara, both of who were interesting companions)
Re: *puts her hands in her pockets and whistles*
Date: 2006-07-01 09:33 pm (UTC)Heh. I still think your suggestion that the next companion should be the Chestertons' grandkid would be a nice idea.
Delia Derbishire was a genius
Date: 2006-07-01 09:35 pm (UTC)It's actually been quite influential on the development of electronic music - it's one of the earliest examples of 'pure' electronic music, and all done by an enthusiastic amatuer fiddling about with radio equipment (oscillators and the like) in a BBC basement in her lunchbreak.
It's wonderfully uncluttered, evocative and sounds, well, like nothing on earth, while still being melodic (as opposed to the modern arrangement, which sounds like rent-a-blockbuster). I bet it absolutely blew them away in 1963.
Tja, da kann man ja nur den FAZ-Artikel zitieren...
Date: 2006-07-01 09:54 pm (UTC)*g*
Re: *puts her hands in her pockets and whistles*
Date: 2006-07-01 08:50 pm (UTC)Re: *puts her hands in her pockets and whistles*
Date: 2006-07-01 09:18 pm (UTC)