unless there's another episode of Doctor Who where somebody gets turned into primordial soup, but since I remember almost nothing else about it
Well, the primordial soup bit is pretty hard to forget! It's not everyone's cup of tea, though, but I love the weirdness, all the wordplay and referenced Victoriana and the meta and the intense Doctor & Ace stuff. (Ace burning the house down is talked about rather than seen; it's what she did as a teenager to get herself arrested. Asked by the Doctor at the end if she has any regrets, she says, "Yes. I wish I'd blown it up instead!")
I appreciate it! I have seen Christopher Plummer making the rounds on Facebook and the Tumblrs I read, but none of the others so far. What is the librarian from?
The librarian is from a 1978-80 series Enemy at the Door, about the Occupation of the Channel Islands. I don't mean to keep watching WWII things, but 1970s British TV is so full of them, I keep falling over them despite myself, but EatD is one I unexpectedly loved probably more than any of the other 70s non-cult drama shows I've seen so far. Episode 2 is "The Librarian" which is where that comes from. As I said, it begins accidentally, because she tries to argue with the SS Officer who's taking library books away, but once she's in that situation, she refuses to take the easy way out and goes to prison essentially as a protest against censorship and Nazi ideology. Judging by the rest of it, it's most likely based on a true incident of some kind, but not one I've come across as yet.
(I am not v reliable on this show or this episode, because it spoke to me a lot about where I was being ill - there's a lot about people having to endure through things they can't do much about, trapped on a small island together - and all the devalument of my profession as a librarian that had happened before that, so I like it and the other people I know who have seen it seem to mostly agree with me, so I'm probably not wrong, but you know what it's like when the right thing comes along at the right time emotionally!)
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Well, the primordial soup bit is pretty hard to forget! It's not everyone's cup of tea, though, but I love the weirdness, all the wordplay and referenced Victoriana and the meta and the intense Doctor & Ace stuff. (Ace burning the house down is talked about rather than seen; it's what she did as a teenager to get herself arrested. Asked by the Doctor at the end if she has any regrets, she says, "Yes. I wish I'd blown it up instead!")
I appreciate it! I have seen Christopher Plummer making the rounds on Facebook and the Tumblrs I read, but none of the others so far. What is the librarian from?
The librarian is from a 1978-80 series Enemy at the Door, about the Occupation of the Channel Islands. I don't mean to keep watching WWII things, but 1970s British TV is so full of them, I keep falling over them despite myself, but EatD is one I unexpectedly loved probably more than any of the other 70s non-cult drama shows I've seen so far. Episode 2 is "The Librarian" which is where that comes from. As I said, it begins accidentally, because she tries to argue with the SS Officer who's taking library books away, but once she's in that situation, she refuses to take the easy way out and goes to prison essentially as a protest against censorship and Nazi ideology. Judging by the rest of it, it's most likely based on a true incident of some kind, but not one I've come across as yet.
(I am not v reliable on this show or this episode, because it spoke to me a lot about where I was being ill - there's a lot about people having to endure through things they can't do much about, trapped on a small island together - and all the devalument of my profession as a librarian that had happened before that, so I like it and the other people I know who have seen it seem to mostly agree with me, so I'm probably not wrong, but you know what it's like when the right thing comes along at the right time emotionally!)