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New Doctor Who Season // thoughts

I like this new Doctor. I like what she is doing. But there is something off. Think of watching a tv show as hitting certain points. When you have a really good massage, you just know. When you finish watching a certain movie, you are just left feeling amazing. That's what cinema can do. It gives you a set of problems, and who the characters approach the problem, and at the end get on top of it, sort of gives the viewer a feeling of satisfaction, like we went through it too. With the new doctor being female, that was cool. But apart from that, just as a Doctor Who episode, so far they have all been pretty good. The first two I was still in on the fence. If truth be told I didn't so much like the second episode. I think it felt too set up, and that took me out of the reality. I love these companions. Their chemistry is beautiful. The third episode was really good, but again it was missing something. I thought it was so beautiful, but it almost feels like its missing something....

Skimming: Good or Bad?

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So here I suppose the question because I've thought a lot about it recently. I am not ever really sure where I had gotten the idea that skimming was a bad idea, only it had somehow just filtered into my thought. As if I was cheating the author of something, when they spent all that time writing the lines, and I wouldn't even give them my full attention. So do you ever feel bad about skim reading a book? Skimming here, I am not talking about necessarily it being a bad book or boring part. Sometimes it can be a very exciting part, but you want them to stop stringing you along, and so you skim read so you can find out quicker. I think it some part it can have nothing to do with the author. Simply you are in a mood and wish to skip some parts that don't interest you. That's natural enough. I think some parts are up to the way the writing is set up too. I don't think we should frown on skim reading either way. I know that when I have gone painstakingly through a ...