Blog of the Dalek

Not only did the Dalek in last week’s Doctor Who episode “download the entire Internet”, it also seems he’s started his own LiveJournal to record his misery! A short extract:

Date unknownI AM THE LAST DALEK. I AM ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE. NO ONE WILL SAVE ME FROM TORTURE AND A SLOW, LINGERING DEATH. THINGS COULD NOT BE ANY WORSE.Later . . .PREVIOUS ASSESSMENT INCORRECT. THE DOCTOR HAS SENT A TEENAGE POP SINGER INTO MY CELL. HE WOULD MAKE A GOOD DALEK.

Meanwhile, the BBC provides an invaluable public service to students in need of distraction from their revision with their game The Last Dalek. “Be a force of ultimate evil” – you know you want to!

In other news, the Journalism department has lost my The Curse of Fenric DVD which I handed in with my essay which did a textual analysis on episode two of that Doctor Who story. I went to see Dr Matt Hills, and he says he’ll try and find it, and will arrange for a replacement if they’ve lost it. Slightly annoying, but after playing it back over and over to analyse it, I’m in no hurry to see it again. I got a mark of 58% on the essay, which I’m slightly disappointed with but it doesn’t seem too bad in relation to other people.

One thing I found interesting was that I got a comment in the margin telling me off for mentioning what the makers intended, since apparently it’s “irrelevant to textual analysis”. What a load of twaddle – the entire point of any kind of text is in some sense to communicate something, be it argument, emotion, ambiguity, story or whatever. I might take the time to have a longer rant about this sometime, but I better get back to revision!

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