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Nov. 19th, 2007

  • 9:16 AM
pepper: Pepperpot (Ahhh coffee)

It's raining with steady determination here at the moment (hardly a surprise, in November in the UK), and what I really, really feel like doing is taking my laptop and spending the day sat in a coffee shop. I'm going to see if I can take this Friday off, to do just that. I hope it's still raining by then. 

I'm also thinking about going ice skating. I love it (even though I sometimes end up with bruises when friends take me down with them, 

[profile] secretrebel ;-) ), but I very rarely go. A lot of great places open up ice rinks in the winter, here - so I could go skating outside the Tower of London, or the Natural History Museum, for example. 

I watched Solitudes last night, in preparation for [profile] redial_the_gate tomorrow. Damn I love that one (although I'm curious as to how much they broke science with Daniel and Siler's explanation of wormhole physics). I rewatched Enigma, too, belatedly. I like Omoc. He's very honest - and his disapproving expressions make me laugh. Narim, however, I find borderline repellant. I feel like he'd be very controlling, were Sam to actually get into a relationship with him - in a "Why don't you wear this? You'd look lovely in it," sort of way. Ugh. I'd like to know what someone else - Janet, Daniel, or Vala, maybe - would have made of his emotion recording device. And how accurate is it? Does it record every emotion? Will she get a mish-mash of 'Samanthalookslikeanangel/thiscathaslovelysoftfur/i'dlikeasandwich'? Or is it editable? Creepy. I would run a mile, I tell ya.

So, yeah - as you can probably tell, I haven't really got anything to say. I just felt like I'd not been posting in a while. :)

 

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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Nov. 19th, 2007 05:09 pm (UTC)
See, my theory is that Narim knows he's being a bit weird, because he's a little embarrassed about using Sam's voice for his home ("I was hoping you wouldn't notice."). So, not necessarily a cultural thing. Then again, there's only a handful of Tollan left, so their culture may have been completely shaken up and skewed to the mores of just a few people.

I'd bet Omoc thought he was weird, though - chasing after some primitive, claiming she looked like an angel. :)

I was squeeing a lot about the mentions of Sara, this time around. And I'm with you; I love those 'stuck somewhere, injuries, trying to survive' stories, too. The Fifth Man has a similar feel. And, um, thingy - the one this icon is from. The name is escaping me. I love the pared-down storytelling. Mmm.
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[identity profile] abyssinia4077.livejournal.com wrote:
Nov. 19th, 2007 06:55 pm (UTC)
Yeah, he probably never expected Sam to actually be in his home. But I wonder if early on he was being creepy by Tollan standards.

Oh, yeah, I'm SURE Omoc wanted to smack him.

SARA! yes.
("Death Knell" I believe)
ext_3314: Woman writing (Default)
[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Nov. 19th, 2007 08:03 pm (UTC)
That's the one. Death Knell. The name had vanished from my head. Early senility.

It's hard to tell, really, what the Tollan standards are - the only other ones we really meet are Omoc and Garwin, who do seem quite uptight. But that might just be them being Big Important Tollan Bods. :)

I wonder how many Tollan there were in the first place. There weren't many survivors, but I wonder if they lost a lot of people, or if they were already a tiny population? Hm.

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