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

[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... :-)