Pompeii

[ailbhe]

I always find Pompeii upsetting and the bloody Doctor didn't help much.

Still, Donna's turning out well, I feel.

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[supermouse.livejournal.com]

It's interesting that you had more or less the exact same reactions that I did.

[tiggsybabes.livejournal.com]

We watched it again yesterday as Holly hadn't seen it. I was doing housework, so didn't sit & watch, but yes, it was emotional & usually, I don;t get emotional watching Doctor Who.

[mrscosmopilite.livejournal.com]

the DW confidential was interesting, DT went to Pompeii with a guide and was obviously quite moved.
It's a strange place to visit, fascinating and upsetting at the same time, the archaeology is one thing but the human story is so distressing.

[submarine-bells.livejournal.com]

Whereas I watched it with Artyem, which is often an interesting experience because his memory is a Freak of Nature. First he pointed out that in the Pompeii he studied at school, the residents did indeed know about volcanos and were evacuating the place actively for days before the blowup. Then he recognised the names of a couple of members of the main family in the show from a Cambridge Latin Course he'd done at school, and starting predicting with hilarious accuracy the names of the various other characters as they turned up.

Never a dull moment, watching tv with Artyem.

[ailbhe]

Unlike, um, half my friends list, I never did the Cambridge Latin Course, but I did spot "He's from Barcelona," among other Python references.

We did Pompeii at school and I can't understand how anyone can go and look at the plaster casts. But they do. So there you go.

[submarine-bells.livejournal.com]

Whereas I'd never heard of the Cambridge Latin Course until Artyem mentioned it, seeing how Latin wasn't taught in the public schools I attended But the highfalutin expensive private school that Artyem's parents misguidedly sent him to under the impression that it'd somehow be "better" taught Latin as well as maintaining many other archaisms of the British "Public" school system that probably had died out in the UK a long time before...