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[bloodyrosemccoy]

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Today’s Embarrassing True Story

 

Last night I slept with the light on.

 

Because of statues.

 

See, I watched episode 3.10 of the new Doctor Who, “Blink.”* Possibly it’s my new favorite episode—while it made very little sense,** the idea of quantum mechanics in biology made me squeak with glee. Aliens that turn to stone when you look at them—very cool.

 

However, because I’ve been in a heightened emotional state lately, the way the show was shot, and the idea of statues sneaking up on you when you’re not looking, scared the bejabbers out of me.  I can handle everything else I’ve seen in movies and TV, but the weeping angel statues got me.

 

So I did something I haven’t done in a long time: I slept with the light on. Because you Never Know when you’ll have to wake up and defend yourself from a psychopathic weeping angel statue by staring at it.

 

 

*Stephen Moffat is far and away my favorite Who writer.  There’s just something weirdly charming about his scenarios.

**The hallmark of this show.

Comments

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

As a child, I had that reaction to an episode of Star Trek TNG-- the one where Geordie gets infected by an alien creature thingy on this planet and almost turns into an invisible critter.

Now, young as I was, I didn't quite follow all the plot bits, but afterwards I always remembered this part on the holodeck where they keep replaying this tape to figure out what's going on, and finally someone notices a shadow with no one casting it. The reason your mention of statues reminded me was that the computer extrapolates from the shadow to a source and places a vaguely man-shaped statue right in the middle of where they are standing around, where the invisible alien was... and it creeped me out so much I spent the rest of the night freaking out every time anything threw a shadow on the wall!