Cow Children

Next, "die" does mean "day," though nominative singular is "dies," i.e. "dies irae." It could be conjugated "die" if it was in ablative or locative case, but "die ad die" would mean something more like "day to day." "Ad" is in a "to" direction and "ab" is from, i.e. "ab urbis," and ablative case is used to indicate the movement of a thing. In short, "by" is not really a way to translate "ad"; we might want "per" here? (Through, by means of, etc.)

The Massacre is kind of a strange one, with the main plot of the Doctor's disappearance and his doppelganger's existence both happening for basically no reason, but the emotional beats are strong enough that it might be a contender for story I would most like to see recovered or animated. I'd certainly be curiously.

The tone whiplash from Steven travelling alone with the Doctor to travelling with Dodo is wild, I can practically see the studio note after The Massacre saying 'hey isn't this show supposed to be appealing to kids.' Even when the following few stories do darker stuff, it feels like its presented for a younger audience. Season 3 is a rollercoaster, its so unsurprising to learn it was chaotic behind the scenes.

My thoughts on The Ark are complicated. On one hand I feel like people don't give it credit for some of its innovative ideas. ...But on the other hand, how badly it fumbled its moral and social messages just gets worse the more I think about it. But also, I feel like you could say the same thing or worse for a lot of much higher regarded early Who, say for example The Daleks with their pinnacle-of-evolution aryan Thals. I dunno.

I watched The Celestial Toymaker animation, and enjoyed seeing it with my brother. Getting weird with it was absolutely the right choice for this one. The design for all the minor characters were so creative, and the little music break in part 3 getting a whole surreal music video was the best part.

I discovered he was made up when I attempted to impress a French microbiologist with my knowledge of his famous countryman. Embarrassing! Were there no real figures the Doctor could be keen to meet?

Two little girls playing gently with a daddy long legs.

Girl 1: can it die?

Doubly so for the waterfall boy.

How the fuck has John major not aged in over 40 years

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.