Sleepy

[scripsi]

I seem to be stuck with my insomnia. I'm so exhausted I fall asleep as soon as I go to bed, sleep for two hours and then wake up only to not fall asleep again until an hour or so before I have to get up. I'm so tired right now that I feel silly, so tomorrow I have a doctor's appointment to get sleeping pills. I don't like to eat them, but now I have tried all my tricks and nothing helps. I know from experience that if I take sleeping pills for two or three nights my body get used to sleeping again and I can stop taking them.

So I'm too tired to write, read or sew, but the kid and I have reached The Two Doctors, another DW I haven't seen before. Two and, of my giddy aunt, Jamie! But I feel sorry for Peri. Not only does she have to run around the universe in even more unsuitable clothes than Tegan, she also have to speak that horrble fake-American and get abducted at least once every episode. I know she is meant to be eye-candy, but this is verging on silly. Well, DW isn't a stranger to the "Bathe her and bring her to me-trope", Barbara, for example has to suffer it from time to time. But poor Peri, every single alien she meets seem to lust after her, even slug-aliens who must have the strangest sexual fetish to lust after a human. It's a pity because I actually like her, she is terrified most of the time, but soldiers on, she doesn't abadined the Doctor even after Six behaves really badly toward her and very often she is right when the Doctor isn't. And she has a good deal of empathy and kindness. And as Nicole Bryant is only slightly older than me, I can actually see my own teenage me in her. I had that hairstyle and several of her clothes are similar to what I wore in 1984, though not as short or low-cut. And I actually lived in pastel coloured cour shoes- but I didn't have to run around like mad on alien planets with them. Pity the show felt it had to sex her up all the time instead of thrusting her to be appealing as a character.

Comments

[nenya_kanadka]

I like Peri a lot too! My shameful admission is that, as a bisexual viewer, I enjoyed the skimpy costumes...even while the feminist part of me felt that they were Quite Unnecessary.

And, of course, this is the serial with the quote "Look at the size of that thing!" "Yes, Jamie, it is a big one..." which became the tag line of the Doctor Who kink comm on LJ. :D I giggled so much when Two burst out with that.

Peri puts up with a lot, man. I did enjoy all the escapes and recaptures of the various Doctors, though I'm not at all sure I'm down with that whole plot about uplifting the aliens and then them regressing. It seemed vaguely skeevy on some level.

[foudebassan.livejournal.com]

Good luck on the sleeping front, insomnia is really annoying :(

[thisbluespirit]

I am sorry to hear the insomnia is still ongoing, but I hope the doctor can help. (Also, the Doctor, it seems! ♥)

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Hope you can get rest soon, lovie. Insomnia sucks...

I agree with all of this! Poor Peri. She had such potential and they really squandered it. Yeesh.

*HUGS*

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry about your very unrestful sleep patterns. *hugs you and sends lullabies*


Gabrielle

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I really hope the pills helped you kick the insomnia, it sounds terrible :( *hugs you*

It's a shame indeed when characters get sexed up to an exaggerated extent… Too bad for her :/