Been thinking about the old Doctor Who episode Logopolis lately - it's weird in that it's a great story that, when you break it down, doesn't make any damn sense, but this soundtrack elevates it so the mood and atmosphere carry it across the finish line.
Like, the Master's evil plan involves the TARDIS dematerializing around HIS TARDIS by accident and the universe actually passed heat death a long time ago but a bunch of math nerds saved it by muttering equations, but when that gets interrupted entropy as a literal force...
...starts eating away at everything unless we can siphon it off into another universe and also there's this white mummy guy watching the Doctor from afar but he's actually the Doctor from the future maybe but not really and the Doctor tries to get rid of the Master by...
...materializing the TARDIS underwater and opening the doors to try to literally flood him out, but it doesn't work because they accidentally land on a boat instead.
But goddamn this soundtrack makes it so friggin' ominous and cool.
Also: block transfer computation is such a cool concept even though it's basically magic - altering reality by doing math really hard. And I'm sad I don't see any, like, Doctor Who Theory videos or whatever trying to talk about it.
Block transfer computation was better than cryptocurrency because it COULD NOT be done by computer - basically, their reality-altering equations would alter the computer itself in the process of performing them. XD
Mind you, no one could get a decent graphics card anyway because every time they bought one, it'd magically transform into a satellite dish, but still.
Man, and just relistening to the soundtrack, I keep forgetting the moodiness gets interrupted twice - once for brief cool action "Here's what we're doing!" music and the other for "70s wakatcha funky sneaking music" and they're both great, too.
Naaaah.
Only if an exact duplicate of it on an alien planet full of math nerds does.
The episode also ended up expanding a few aspects of Doctor lore that hadn't really been talked about in a while, like the Doctor stealing the TARDIS while it was in for repairs, hence why the Chameleon Circuit didn't work.
"I thought she was yours?!"
"Well, in a sort of 'finders-keepers' basis, yes. I should have waited for them to finish the chameleon conversion, but there were pressing reasons at the time..."
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I finished the Tandy Computer Whiz Kids compilation video and uploaded it 5 hours ago. Still waiting for it to process.
...Mind you, the thing is 4 hours and 45 minutes long, so it's a BIT understandable why it takes a while to process, but still.
The processing has completed, buuuuut now it's "Running Checks," which is normally for ContentID. I think in this case because the word "kids" is in the title it's being extra thorough.
...Hrmmm. While checks are running I decided to add in the midrolls to save time, but it already had some midrolls in there. Makes me worried it found a ContentID issue it just hasn't told me about yet and the rightsholder just auto-put in midrolls.
Something that people don't seem to get about my occasional critiques about Junji Ito stories - in particular Uzumaki and Hellstar Remina - is the concept of agency, when a character is more proactive than reactive.
They seem to think I mean that the protagonists, in this...
...case Kirie and Remina, should have a happy ending to their stories and everything is resolved. The response is that Lovecraftian fiction often has the main character be unable to alter the outcome because they are a small speck in an uncaring universe, but that's not what...
...I mean at all. Again, that concept of being proactive instead of reactive. Kirie, in some stories, actively attempts to investigate the strange things going on in her town or preserve the life of herself, her friends, and her family. She does not always succeed and, in the...
And I've said this before - the ending COULD have worked if you had the dialogue play it up. Kirie just letting loose about everything and accepting it because of the pointlessness of trying to fight on or the like. Instead it's just "Nah, I'll just die."
My journey through Ring and Grudge movies is nearing its end. I've still got the Bunshinsaba stuff to watch, but now I must watch the crappy attempt to revive the franchise from 2016 that I've seen snippets of... RINGS.
Don't know how much livetweeting there will be since I want to try to get as much done with as possible here and focus on that work, but right away: like the more SLIGHT glitchy touches with the Paramount logo, and then zooming out of it on a plane TV.
"This is gonna sound weird, but you ever hear about the video that kills you after you watch it?"
I should really just go with that to get people to stop talking to me on a flight.
Welp, time to enter the dark times for my Ring/Grudge marathoning. I'm finally checking out The Grudge 2020, which is apparently a Sidequel. I've heard nothing but bad things, but I'll give it a shot, though no promises on live-tweeting.
Next one after this will be Rings.
Pray for me - I've seen clips of it. DX
Okay, so already I've got a problem. You go to all the trouble of establishing the connection with the American Grudge, even the brief cameo by Kayako... but you screwed up the death groan!