Another GIP, and a bit of my personal opinion on Iconology

[capri0mni]

First: July 11's XKCD -- It's a complete non-sequitor to the meat of this entry, but I include it because it is truth.

Now, about this icon: this is another one of Zoe, in the Second Doctor story, The Invasion, and she is, in fact, at the moment of this screencap actually killing someone with her brain.* See how jolly she is about it, too? She teaches us that killing with our brains is supposed to be fun. That's why she is made of win, at least in this story. It totally makes up for all the screaming she did before.

See, I believe (And YMMV), that if you're going to caption a screencap for an icon, the caption should fit with the original context of the image. Ideally, at least. Or at least compliment it.

Anyway, "kill you with my brain" seems to be its own unique genre of LJ icon (some others include "bored," "squee," "hides" and *flail*), and it was one I didn't have yet, so...

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*If you consider one of those corporate, computerized, automated phone answering voices to be a "someone," that is.

Comments

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

Good icon. :-)

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I think the Internets needs more Zoe* icons to make a lie of the statement that "All the old school companions ever did was scream (and twist their ankles)"

[ETA: Moonbase, correct?]

*Babs, too. And Ace. And Sarah Jane. And...

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

Nope, Moonbase featured Polly, Ben and Jamie. My icon was made from a publicity photo for Wheel in Space, Zoe's first story, although I believe no such scene was ever broadcast (Zoe's being threatened in the library). :-)

::takes opportunity to use Ace icon::

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Ah. I get the titles of those two confused, as they're lumped together in my brain (cybermen on a spacestation)

[pedanther]

I shall match your GIP with a GIC, since I also have a new icon today.

(The caption is a quote from the same scene as the image, though not IIRC from the same exact moment.)

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

I like it. Do I recognize correctly that it is Babylon 5?

The thing about captions and images, for me, is that sometimes (often?) an icon is the first impression of a show or a character that some people have, and to caption someone dancing as a *flail,* or vice-versa, gives an Entirely Wrong Impression. And if someone is motivated to catch an episode or program based on the icons of their friends and acquaintances, they will be Disappointed.

So your icon is entirely fair.

[pedanther]

Do I recognize correctly that it is Babylon 5?

Up to a point, Lord Copper.

Actually, it's from the 1981 TV version of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'. On the left, Richard Vernon as Slartibartfast, the great fan of Science; on the right with a silly-looking gadget on his head, Simon Jones as Arthur Dent.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Up to the point where it's sci-fi on television, you mean...

In other words: "No." :-)

[pedanther]

"Up to a point, Lord Copper" is a line from Evelyn Waugh's satire Scoop. Lord Copper is a media magnate whose underlings don't dare contradict him, even when he's completely wrong:

'Let me see, what's the name of the place I mean? Capital of Japan? Yokohama, isn't it?'
'Up to a point, Lord Copper.'

(Not that I'm afraid to contradict you, but I thought I'd try breaking the news to you gently.)

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Hee!

I think what made me think it was B5 was the lighting style, and the color palatte, and I wasn't looking closely at Arthur Dent, and just saw what my brain catagorized as "alien headdress."

Once you pointed him out, I recognized the bathrobe... :-)

[scarfman]

On the off chance that you're not aware (and so I have an excuse to describe it), I feel compelled to note that the kill you with my brain meme* derives from dialog in an episode of Firefly. It's the episode in which the handsome young doctor on the run from the law with his government-enhanced-soldier teenage sister confesses to the crew's gunsmith/muscleman that the doctor is perfectly aware that the muscleman tried to betray the doctor and the sister to the law in an earlier episode. The doctor nevertheless assures the muscleman that, he being an ethical doctor, the muscleman has nothing to fear from him when the muscleman's in need of medical care. Afterwards, though, the soldierly-enhanced sister, about whom the muscleman hasn't the smarts not to be suspicious and superstitious, tells the muscleman, "Also, I can kill you with my brain." (Whether the sister actually has such a power as telekinetic homicidal capability is ambiguous throughout the text.)

* Meme in the mainstream sense, not the LJ sense.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Meme in the mainstream sense

Took just a flash of cognitive whirring, there, but I got that point.

Meanwhile, Zoe's deadly brain power isn't telekinetic, but just plain smarts.

I thought, for a while, of using the shot of her in UNIT control, after she [spoiler deleted], grinning from ear-to-ear in her shiny cat suit. But she looks vaguely intimidating in that shot, and I like the contrast between her feather-boa-and-eyelashes glam image and the toughness of the sentiment.

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

I love Zoe so, so hard. A tiny young woman in a mini-dress, high heels and a feather boa, with her girlfriend (*cough*) by her side, DESTROYING A COMPUTER WITH HER BRAIN. If that's not feminist, I don't know what is:).

And damn it, I need to mak myself a Zoe icon. Probably from the same scene, too!

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

How about using the other other image I almost used, shortly after this cap, of Zoe and her girlfriend* LOLing as the computer asplodes?

*in the pop-up trivia bits in the extras on this DVD, it was revealed that it was already in the works that the Doctor would be Earthbound in the next batch of stories, and if Troughton were to continue in the role, Isabel would have been a regular recurring character. I am rather sad that that did not happen anyway, with Pertwee, because she is a faboo character in her own right.