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!