Salon post: March 9

[jenett]

I mentioned in a lock post, there was no post last week because I was still getting over being miserably sick.

Welcome to this week's salon post!

Topic of the week
Getting conversations going is something that I think about a lot, between online spaces like this, being staff on a Pagan forum, and just generally.

I've mentioned in a locked post that I've noticed a significant drop off in comments on the salon posts, and I'm wondering if there are things I (or other people who were interested) could do to help.

Is it timing? Starting discussions a bit differently? Something else?

What I've been up to:
Having finished the Classic Doctor Who rewatch, I am now a season into New Who. (With a bit of skipping episodes, since I've seen the first couple of seasons several times in the not too distant past.)


House rules:
This is a public post, feel free to encourage other people to drop by, just note the 'if posting anonymously, include a name people can call you in responses' rule.

* Consider this a conversation in my living room, only with a lot more seating. I reserve the right to redirect, screen, and otherwise moderate stuff, but would vastly prefer not to have to.

* If you don't have a DW account or want to post anonymously, please include a name we can call you in this particular post. (You can say AnonymousOne or your favourite colour or whatever. Just something to help keep conversations clear.)

* If you've got a question or concern, feel free to PM me.

Comments

[anne]

My PBS station quit airing new (at the time) Who after Six and went back to 4 ad nauseam. So I still haven't seen any 7 at all! I should fix that.

[jenett]

I suspect you'd find a lot of 7 interesting - they went to a decidedly creepy place for several of them (Ghost Light, and the Greatest Show in the Galaxy), but playing with some of it in interesting ways.

[anne]

I like creepy, if it isn't Blink, and I keep hearing things that make me think I'd really like Ace. Companions who aren't overly impressed with the Doctor are my favorites--I like Leela, Sarah Jane, Liz Shaw, Romana I...

[jenett]

It's not the same kind of creepy as Blink? Ghost Light is very Victorian Creepy, and Greatest Show is circus creepy, with some bonus other stuff?

But yes, I think you'd like Ace. She's younger than the others (sixteenish when she shows up) but she is decidedly opinionated about how things ought to go. Also the power of explosives.

[anne]

Both of those are kinds of creepy I enjoy! I'll make an effort to find them.