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Decided to take a bit of a study break about an hour ago and watch an episode of Who. Was going to listen to part of the Power of the Daleks audio track, but I find that no matter what I do listening to audio-only tracks with nothing to look at makes me sleepy. And then I get caught off-guard when something explodes and I jump about three feet.

I'm loving Power thus far (I'm two episodes in, and damn Troughton but you're an awesome thing), but I'm used to episodes, or at least recons with still images; audio-only tracks are taking me some time to get used to. Any suggestions, for those of you more familiar with the audio-only tracks than myself? I've listened to a few already (even if it took me about a month to finally get through the entirety of The Daleks' Master Plan), but if I'm going to move on to the Big Finish catalogue I need to start getting a little better about not stopping in the middle or trying to multitask too much. What should I do while listening? Is it better to just listen to an audio all in one go, or put it on one's iPod and listen to it gradually, when one gets the chance?

I also realized that I'm running out of Troughton serials. I've already seen all the extant serials, save for the last episode of The War Games (which depresses me too much to watch), and I've seen the surviving episodes of all the burninated serials. Once I get through the audios I have left (I've still got most of Victoria's and all of Zoe's to go) I will have no more new Troughton. And that thought makes me very sad. :(

Anyway, because sleepyness was a bad thing, I decided for the first episode of Day of the Daleks, because while it's not supposed to be particularly good it does, so I'm told, contain things like bondage and motortrikes and dodgy architecture OF THE FUTURE.

Bondage and motortrikes have yet to make an appearance, but we've got the dodgy architecture right here, complete with spinning plastic chairs that don't actually spin. Also, is it just me going crazy, or do the Daleks sound wierdly...sedate in this one? Their voices sound positively calm compared to their usual shrieking hysteria (which is back by Planet of the Daleks, she noted), which on the one hand is sort of a nice change but on the other hand makes mass cries of "EX-TER-MIN-ATE." sound really weird.

More thorough thoughts later, because I'm tired, but I just have to note that there's a bit where the Doctor and Jo spend the night in a supposedly-haunted mansion. The Doctor, because he's sort of twelve years old like that, immediately breaks out the wine and cheese.

And my very first thought, no lie, was "There's a drunk!fic to be had in here somewhere."

I think I may have reached some sort of fannish event horizon, not at least because I may have written a little tiny bit of it even though I refuse to dignify it by actually saving the thing. :(

 
To bed, to bed. Next exam tomorrow afternoon; here's hoping I can remember which one's Surrey by then.