Indeed. (You can't separate the two...) – One of the things I’m doing as part of trying to figure out this whole “career” idea is reading out-of-character business-y books. And in “18 Minutes”, Peter Bregman notes:
“The most interesting novels,” Newsweek editor Malcolm Jones wrote in a recent book review, “are the ones where the flaws and the virtues can’t be pulled apart.”
That’s even truer for people. The most powerful ones don’t conquer their dysfunctions, quirks, and potentially embarrassing insecurities. They seamlessly integrate them to make an impact on the world.
to which I can only say, he is guilty as charged on both counts. :)
It is only temporary - and voluntary - so not as bad as Donna. – Very good distinction re: Donna, but to it being only temporary, you as the authors might know that, but we as the readers don’t. Yes, I see “but their relationship - as friends, lovers, or whatever they were - would weather it. It always had before.” is in the text, but as these two chapters have just hammered home in a recursive loop of cleverness, the Seeker doesn’t always get it right. (Yes, I know, Moffat, eventual triumph of love, I’ve watched the clip, but I’m still trying to work out, since . . . do we need spoiler markers for the Christmas special? Can’t do lj-cut in a comment anyway. Bother. . .
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Santa appeared at the end of Death in Heaven and not only in the Christmas Special, how much of season 8 is going to turn out not to have happened at all...)
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Indeed. (You can't separate the two...)
– One of the things I’m doing as part of trying to figure out this whole “career” idea is reading out-of-character business-y books. And in “18 Minutes”, Peter Bregman notes:
to which I can only say, he is guilty as charged on both counts. :)
It is only temporary - and voluntary - so not as bad as Donna.
– Very good distinction re: Donna, but to it being only temporary, you as the authors might know that, but we as the readers don’t. Yes, I see “but their relationship - as friends, lovers, or whatever they were - would weather it. It always had before.” is in the text, but as these two chapters have just hammered home in a recursive loop of cleverness, the Seeker doesn’t always get it right. (Yes, I know, Moffat, eventual triumph of love, I’ve watched the clip, but I’m still trying to work out, since . . . do we need spoiler markers for the Christmas special? Can’t do lj-cut in a comment anyway. Bother. . .
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Santa appeared at the end of Death in Heaven and not only in the Christmas Special, how much of season 8 is going to turn out not to have happened at all...)