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Also listened to “The Sweet Tooth”, which reminds me very much of reading “The Glad Hosts”.

They both feel strongly like somebody took a cliche, paint-by-numbers erotic-horror story, stripped out the conventionally-sexual content*, and gave it to a vanilla audience who wouldn’t recognise its pattern.

And so you’re like “…do they know? Is that what they did, or did they independently reinvent this standard plot?”

(IIRC, there’s an RPA behind-the-scenes bit that suggests they didn’t know, and that they did independently reinvent this plot. Which is interesting, in a convergent-evolution kind of way. “The lure is a chocolate shop, and women liking chocolate is for whatever reason more of a Thing than it is for men” and “this story is porn aimed at gynephiles” both lead to the same result of all-female targets.)

*But didn’t do a complete job of it: you can still see traces. Mai’s “love erotic”; the way the shop preys exclusively on women.

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#I mean yeah the villain loses in this one #but that *would* be a side effect of translating the plot from a genre where the villain usually wins to a genre where they never do #Red Panda Adventures #sexuality and lack thereof #nsfw text? #reactionblogging #tmi? #for some reason it took me longer to notice with Glad Hosts than with Sweet Tooth #Sweet Tooth I remember thinking a few minutes into my first listen ”I swear I’ve read porn with this premise” #Glad Hosts felt *vaguely* familiar and it wasn’t until afterward that I realised #”oh this is basically just cliche dime-a-dozen mind-altering-parasite porn but with the conventional sexuality removed” #”I didn’t like this plot the *first* six times I read it” #(Sweet Tooth was much less horror-y so I liked it a lot better) #(have I mentioned lately I hate horror?) #oh look an original post

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Reached “When Darkness Falls” in my Red Panda Adventures re-listen.

*gently lowers head onto table*

oh god

he’s so tiny

and he has no idea

(and that police officer that blows him off

was that

the same police officer who talks approvingly to the Black Eagle near the end)

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#Red Panda Adventures #reactionblogging #oh look an original post #you know #in terms of the number and magnitude of positive consequences #sparing Harry Kelly’s memory was probably the *single best move* the Red Panda ever made

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I’m beginning to wonder if Team TARDIS’s complete lack of concern for air breathability is a deliberate running gag.

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#Nardole you just spent six weeks in the hospital for failure to bring a spacesuit #you of all people should not feel safe taking your helmet off as soon as you see the local atmosphere can support an open fire #you know what else has atmosphere that can support fire? a fucking *biohazard lab* #Doctor Who #reactionblogging #oh look an update #Empress of Mars #dw spoilers

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…they just completely dropped the whole thing.

The arc is over, without Extremis ever affecting anything.

Perfectly good mindfuck wasted.

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#I’m not saying I even necessarily *like* mindfucks #(it really depends) #but dammit I know a lead-up to a mindfuck plot when I see one #and you can’t just do that and then *not deliver* #you can’t just have the characters ignore the single largest threat to their plan #and have them be *right* to ignore it #*headdesk* #Doctor Who #dw spoilers #The Lie of the Land #oh look an original post #negativity tw #reactionblogging

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Also, please tell me I’m not the only person whose reaction to the next-time-on trailer was “what these people need is some key lime pie”.

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#…I’m the only one aren’t I #goddammit #Hidden Almanac #Doctor Who #high context jokes #The Pyramid at the End of the World #The Lie of the Land #dw spoilers #(although tbh it’s only a spoiler if you’re familiar with the Fathers arc of the Hidden Almanac) #(which you’re probably not) #(but just in case) #oh look an original post #reactionblogging

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New DW episode tonight.

Place your bets on whether the Resistance will realise the need for frequent shadow-testing.

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#after last week’s stupidity my hopes are not high #in their defence it’s currently not clear if the Resistance even has access to enough background knowledge to figure this out #the Doctor’s alpha-timeline self #–and therefore all of his forks from that point on– #know about shadow-testing #but it’s not clear if he’s told anyone else #(I’m thinking the answer re: the Resistance is either ”no” or ”they find out partway through the episode”) #(and that the regeneration scene that’s going around in gifsets takes place in a shadow-world) #(leaning toward ”find out partway through” on the grounds that) #(IIRC) #(none of the characters have made *any* use of the information from the Extremis recording yet) #(all of their dealings with the Monks would have gone the same way if they’d never heard of them before) #(so I’m hoping the writers will realise they haven’t actually fired that proverbial rifle yet) #((but they might not because on the surface it *looks* fired already)) #((just in ways that didn’t actually affect the plot)) #tag rambles #Doctor Who #negativity tw #oh look an original post #reactionblogging #(sort of) #The Pyramid at the End of the World #The Lie of the Land #dw spoilers #(…I just realised I forgot to spoiler-tag my reaction post last week) #(oops) #(too late now I suppose)

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(probably qualifies as a sequel to this post)

(I might be missing something here, but I’m pretty sure this is at the very least mostly correct:)

Every problem Team TARDIS is currently facing can be traced back, directly or indirectly (sometimes both), to failure to bring their own spacesuits. To assuming that clean, breathable air would be available when they had zero reason to think that (in the case of Chasm Forge) or less than zero reason to think that (in the case of an apocalyptically-fatal-biohazard lab with a known internal breach).

I think they’re teaching a very valuable lesson here: remember, kids, protective gear is not a joke, wear your fucking hazard suits, just fucking do it already.

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#this post brought to you by #a person who wears surgical masks while on airplanes and when going outside during high-pollen times #(works too) #(only partially in the case of the airplane) #(but buying myself a few days’ delay by contracting the passenger’s cold indirectly through my family was very valuable) #(I needed those few days and was very glad to get them) #hazard gear: fuck yeah #oh look an original post #reactionblogging #Doctor Who #everyone in this episode was incredibly stupid but we can learn from their mistakes #(there were other things wrong with this episode too) #(including lessons they tried to teach that you absolutely *should not* learn) #((like ”consent is only consent if you’re doing it for stupid shortsighted reasons”)) #(but I’m focusing on this problem right now) #negativity tw #illness tw #tag rambles

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Well, I suppose that makes sense, really. Half a normal episode length; half a brilliant plan.

(Namely, the first half of a brilliant plan, followed by the second half of a completely-off-the-rails plan. Poor thing.)

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(Also, the Red Panda can loom remarkably well from inside a pneumatic tube.)

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#all in all a very fun episode #despite the very Wrong-feeling appearance #Red Panda Adventures #reactionblogging #oh look an original post

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This is weirding me out even more than I expected.

(oh god he’s blond too

whyyyyy)

(And yet Steven Burley isn’t blond. Truly, there is no justice.)

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#and he’s dressed like a fucking clown #although to be fair blue mandrill-style face paint *is* a neat idea #and I could definitely see integrating that into my headcanon #Red Panda Adventures #reactionblogging #oh look an original post #(look I don’t know why Steven Burley sounds blond he just does) #(maybe it’s the announcer peppiness?) #((okay let’s go find out how much brilliant plan the Mad Monkey has managed to stuff into 15 minutes))

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Tonight’s episode of Red Panda video will be “Monkey See, Monkey Do”.

It occurs to me this almost certainly means that the Mad Monkey has a canonical appearance. And he’s almost certainly not going to look how I was imagining him. This is going to be weird.

(Not that this’ll be the first time that’s happened, even within this series. What do you mean, Andy Parker is blond?)

Between prosopagnosia (which tends to cause impairments in imagining faces along with recognising them) and a generally low-detail visual imagination, I don’t tend to imagine characters’ appearances all that much. They’ll usually have a skin colour, often hair to some level, and sometimes a build and/or general facial structure. For some reason, I have an unusually clear sense of what the Mad Monkey’s hair looks like: light brown, somewhat curly, balding, sideburns, thick eyebrows. (He’s pretty short, too.)

(I didn’t have much sense of what Professor Zombie looked like, so seeing her appearance in the previous episode didn’t really weird me out: there wasn’t much of anything for it to clash with.)

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#Red Panda Adventures #reactionblogging #fun fact: this post has been in my drafts for weeks #I just haven’t had time to actually watch the damn episode #oh look an original post

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