Thought no.242 – Driving

Slowly I am beginning to improve, but as they say slow and steady wins the race. I just need to remain calm and not panic when the car goes too fast (of course this isn’t the cars fault but sometimes my feet and my brain don’t work together).

Thought no.241 – Quote

“Time doesn’t heal anything. Time is merely the off-brand bandaid you buy at the local supermarket that patches up the wound temporarily. Nostalgia will rip off the bandaid every time, leaving the healed spot open, sore, and a tad bit more vulnerable than before. But, new things, new people, new places, new experiences, does all the fixing. So wait. And when you grow tired of waiting, keep waiting. Don’t wait for the time to speed up enough to feel again, but wait for the right moment to inhale something new and exhale the past.”

—	Alaina Strollo (via s0lar-soul)

Thought no.240 – Airing tv shows

I was going to end up writing a thought about feeling quite meh, but since talking to my friend from across the seas my mood has picked up and her and I have been having quite the discussion and I want to bring the thoughts here.

We were discussing about our favourite tv show (Once upon a time) and about when it airs in america (where she lives) and in the uk (where i live) i informed her that season 3 doesn’t actually air over here as Channel 5 dropped it. This then of course lead us onto the discussion of airing tv shows and whatnot.

The problem is that tv shows (for example) are aired over in america and then don’t come to the uk till months perhaps even a year later, by then if there is an interest in that show over in the uk the audience will have watched it another way as they cannot wait and wish to watch it as it airs in america so they avoid spoilers and whatnot. Meaning that when it does finally air over here it doesn’t get viewed and so the viewings for the programme are low resulting in a cancelation.

The thing is if they aired films and tv shows around the same time across the world, (or a multitude of countries where it is most popular) they would decrease things such as piracy and illegal streaming and downloading. As in this current age with media the audience wants things instantly, they want to be able to get it as soon as they can. There is this damand for things instantly and as an audience if we are not provided with it instantly then we shall go and use other means in order to get it. Means that are not profitable or good for media institutions, as they do not wish for you to obtain their products in this way.

They might believe that by having this different in airing dates it building up an audience or suspense, and perhaps in some cases, but most of the time if the audience is an active audience and knows how to get it when they want it, they will.

I don’t even think it would be difficult to have tv shows and films broadcast to multiple countries at once, as now most production is done digitally rather than 16 mm film so it is not difficult to distribute. It wouldn’t be even as if the institutions are losing out on money or audience numbers, if anything they would increase as they are meeting the demand of te audience,which would then increase the profit as there in then a higher interest.

It’s just something that as an audience and being impatient, I feel highly strongly about and don’t completely understand why media institutions do separate out the airing dates of tv shows at such extreme waiting periods.

Thought no.239 – had a thought

I had a thought to write today but as usual I’ve left it too late and have just got to a point where i can’t be bothered as per usual.

Thought no.238 – ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

So I got nominated by my friend and so I made sure I donated and then got myself covered in cold water and ice. I personally think that the way they have gone about this is genius and they are raising so much money and awareness, so you know I was happy to donate to a good cause.

Thought no.237 – Quote

Sometimes you need to remind yourself that you were the one who carried you through the heartache. You are the one who sits with the cold body on the shower floor, and picks it up. You are the one who feeds it, who clothes it, who tucks it into bed, and you should be proud of that. Having the strength to take care of yourself when the world is trying to bleed you dry, that is the strongest thing in the universe. (via x)

Thought no.236 – The team/yourself

Sometimes you just need to take one for the team, and by team I mean yourself. Its okay to be selfish once in a while, people can disapprove of you being selfish but you do need to take care of yourself and sometimes being a tad selfish is a part of that. Because your own happiness and wellbeing matters a great deal, so take one for yourself.

Thought no.235 – Unsure

I am unsure what to write. Well to necessarily unsure, I have a few ideas but the motivation to write is gone, drifting far away out of arms reach.

Thought no.234- Welcome Capaldi

So the first episode of series eight of Doctor Who has just aired and as is to be expected people will be forming their opinions on the episode they have just watched and my opinion is that it was brilliant! Having this episode on for 80 minutes I think worked really well. Part of my problem with some episodes of doctor who is that in the usual 45 minutes sometimes everything is rushed as there is a whole plot to each episode and 45 minutes doesn’t always cut it. 80 minutes worked especially well as the introductory episode to Peter Capaldi’s doctor. It gave us a story, tested the wheels of doctor number twelve, addressed the changing of the doctor marvelously and gave us more in depth view of Clara.

Speaking of Clara the amount of character development that we experienced from her was astounding I often feel as if before now she was quite a 2D character and could never quite make up my opinion on her, now I feel as if she is much more rounded as a character there’s more purpose to her than just being the impossible girl, plot device. In this episode we got to truly experience many different sides of her and establish more of her and her relationship to the doctor and she helped encapsulate and represent an audience who may have issues accepting the new face of the doctor and so along with clara the audience could come to accept him.

Peter Capaldi, I will say now I did have apprehensions to seeing him as a doctor I wasn’t sure how they were going to play it, but so far I am liking it. I liked how they had him confused, they didn’t rush his character, the writing showed us his character without forcing it, it was natural and new but also old by incorporating so much of the doctors before him. Just simple touches like at the end suggesting he and clara get chips but he didn’t have money, brings us back to doctor number nine. Allowing for the continuity that this is the same man and he carries stuff along with him from each regeneration. I really look forward to seeing how Capaldi’s doctor progresses.

The writing of this episode was also something I particularly enjoyed. Steven Moffat is often slated on the internet, but this episode I felt showed off how he can be a good writer, is a good writer. Something i noticed and particularly loved was the parallels, (that is partly because I am a sucker for parallels in tv shows, don’t know what it is about them, i just love them) I loved how the cyborg was paralleling the doctor, the mentioning of the replacing of parts and how the cyborg had changed so much he isn’t the same man, paralleling how the doctor is always regenerating (changing his parts) but the difference is that the doctor still is the same man. The parallel (i’m not sure is this is entirely a parallel more of a comparison) with having the dinosaur, i feel as if it was slightly symbolic as the dino didn’t have much purpose; but the fact you have this ancient creature which is out of its time and alone and afraid and distressed I feel was there to symbolise the Doctor as that was how he was feeling in this episode.  I also loved the whole thing when the Doctor is looking in the mirror and talking about his face and asking where he picked it from and whatnot, making a slight reference to the fact that Capaldi is acted in Doctor Who (as Caecillius) before and so the face is recognisable. Also the parallels to a previous episode of Steven Moffat’s “The Girl in the Fireplace” with the robots and how the Doctor is trying to remember as this all seems familiar but he can’t.

Overall I thought it was a lovely introductory episode and look forward to where the rest of the series shall be going.

…On a side note the lady at the end, or as I saw someone on tumblr call her “crazy mary poppins motherfucker” my mind went into overdrive at the end trying to work out who she was as my mind was certain she had appeared in a previous episode. But the internet corrected me in saying she hasn’t appeared in Doctor Who before. So even though my mind got muddled about where I recognised her from I am very interested in finding out who she is and whatnot.

 

Thought no. 233 – Thought Block

The thought block once again prevails. Though in a way this is still a thought.