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[tamakun]

So I wake up this morning with my alarm clock going off, and my dreams were making me believe I was The Doctor.

It seemed that The Doctor didn't have any pressing alien problems, as I don't remember encountering a single paranormal or extraterrestrial phenomena, however, the TARDIS kept whisking me away to wherever the flashing lights of police cars were in the night- and rain-filled city (whichever city that was).

Seems that one of the more pressing situations was that someone kept losing that perfect musical "A" note. He wasn't a very good singer, either. (This was obviously from last night, when I was reading about how organs and other musical instruments in the 1600s were not coordinated to play the same frequency, and it took France in the 1930s to unify that "A" is at 440 Hertz.)

Unfortunately, since I seem to be remembering little scraps here and there about things - a subway, this man with the musical note, and the TARDIS dizzily pulling me from scene to scene - I do not feel rested at all.

No spoilers please; I've only gotten myself through the second season of the New Doctor Who episodes. I distinctly remember telling someone not to spoil myself by listing off a list of Eccleston-style criteria by which I am not to be privy to. Fantastic. :D

Comments

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia is making it sound like it was America's idea. o.o Regardless -- I wonder how they accurately determined the frequency of sound back in the 1930s?

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's my mistake - it appears that it was in 1859 that the French started the standardization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_pitch_standards_in_Western_music#19th_and_20th_century_standards), but it didn't really get unified until the 1930's, and then that was in the States.

These science books really do make you think! To know that people were trying to figure out the curvature of the earth using a stick's shadow, or determining the frequency of a sound back in the 1800s... I can't imagine how much more man-power it must have taken to calculate all these things.

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

I think the same sorts of things when I think about how hard it must have been to make movies! (Animation especially..)

[davidn]

That's not just one singer's voice going - that's the harmonic resonance of the planet being taken out of alignment, and if Sutekh proceeds to open the eye of harmony within the core of the earth then it could cause a paradox that would tear the planet into etc etc etc.

I picked up watching Matt Smith's series of Doctor Who again recently - I'd forgotten what a stressful programme it was. I think the Tennant era peaks near the end of series 3 and then drops off again (into absolutely terrible once the Christmas specials arrive), but I've been enjoying the re-revival a lot.

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

I knew that you were going to comment on the Doctor Who situation. :D

I've heard bad things about the Christmas specials too! I mean, even the first one which was technically Tennant's first "full episode" as The Doctor, and he was in bed for half the time...

I'm still looking forward to the other seasons, regardless. I've seen a couple of the first Matt Smith episodes, but I've been told that now I need to watch up to a certain point in Season 4 so that I don't spoil myself on whatever's going to happen in Season 5.

WOULD-YOU-LIKE-SOME-TEA?

[davidn]

I remember that line! That was one of the funniest things ever, and it's hard to believe that it came from the actual programme and not a Jon Culshaw spoof...

I completely misnamed the "Christmas specials" - I meant the four episodes that weren't part of any series but were meant to link Series 4 and 5 together. (Although the second Tennant special was... surprisingly Power Rangers in production values, now that you mention it).

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

Ahh, man, considering that the DVD sets don't seem to have the specials, it looks like I'm going to have to seek out these "bridge" episodes... though with your suggestion, I might be better off if I don't.