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incandescensSo . . . I sympathise with everyone who set their video recorders for Doctor Who tonight, and then found out too late that it had been shifted twenty minutes due to penalty playoffs with the football.
Indeed. Beautiful Cybermen. Positively art deco. Lovely zeppelins. I don't care if technology shouldn't have gone that way, it looked so good that it had. (Besides, remember that guard's comment to Mickey about curfew and the people "living up there"? I'm sure there's a social undercurrent and plot point involved.)
Incidentally, speaking of Mickey/Rickey, very nicely done. Just because he didn't tell everyone about his personal life and grandmother's death doesn't mean it didn't happen or exist.
Another note on Mickey's current feelings. Ever been the tolerated one? The person who got brought along on a trip of some sort where you happened to be a friend of a friend, but where you're aware all along that at least one of the other people there would have been quite happy without you, is having to work to even remember that you're supposed to be there, and while they don't actually dislike you, they could have gone a thousand years without having to remember that you exist. It can promote annoyance.
Bets on Gemini? Either Pete or Jackie seems likely. I'm trying to think what "Gemini" could be a reference to. People who can pick their code names tend to choose something with a meaning to it.
Also, use of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" -- lovely example of the banality of evil.
Personal bet for next episode; Rickey's going to get killed, and Mickey's going to choose to stay behind with his grandmother, and to help in a place where he will affect things. We shall see.
---
Walls
Without consideration, without pity, without shame
they have built great and high walls around me.
And now I sit here and despair.
I think of nothing else: this fate gnaws at my mind;
for I had many things to do outside.
Ah why did I not pay attention when they were building the walls.
But I never heard any noise or sound of builders.
Imperceptibly they shut me from the outside world.
-- Constantine P. Cavafy, trans. Rae Dalven
Indeed. Beautiful Cybermen. Positively art deco. Lovely zeppelins. I don't care if technology shouldn't have gone that way, it looked so good that it had. (Besides, remember that guard's comment to Mickey about curfew and the people "living up there"? I'm sure there's a social undercurrent and plot point involved.)
Incidentally, speaking of Mickey/Rickey, very nicely done. Just because he didn't tell everyone about his personal life and grandmother's death doesn't mean it didn't happen or exist.
Another note on Mickey's current feelings. Ever been the tolerated one? The person who got brought along on a trip of some sort where you happened to be a friend of a friend, but where you're aware all along that at least one of the other people there would have been quite happy without you, is having to work to even remember that you're supposed to be there, and while they don't actually dislike you, they could have gone a thousand years without having to remember that you exist. It can promote annoyance.
Bets on Gemini? Either Pete or Jackie seems likely. I'm trying to think what "Gemini" could be a reference to. People who can pick their code names tend to choose something with a meaning to it.
Also, use of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" -- lovely example of the banality of evil.
Personal bet for next episode; Rickey's going to get killed, and Mickey's going to choose to stay behind with his grandmother, and to help in a place where he will affect things. We shall see.
---
Walls
Without consideration, without pity, without shame
they have built great and high walls around me.
And now I sit here and despair.
I think of nothing else: this fate gnaws at my mind;
for I had many things to do outside.
Ah why did I not pay attention when they were building the walls.
But I never heard any noise or sound of builders.
Imperceptibly they shut me from the outside world.
-- Constantine P. Cavafy, trans. Rae Dalven
