Doctor Who: Storm Warning
Oct. 3rd, 2008 07:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethThere was an offer for a box set from the Big Finish website, so I have a whole box full of 8th Doctor audio adventures. These are with Charley Pollard, Edwardian Adventuress. There was crossdressing. Already I like her.
... er, yes, I am predictable...
Along the way I realise I have a really big gap in my mental timeline, cause in my head it goes 'WWI WWII' and in actual history there were in fact years.
So, adventure. With an airship that we know is going to go boom, which has that lovely ticking clock feeling. And with cliffhangers! It's in parts, so they finish on an oh no and keep going. 4 parts. I miss cliffhangers. I do like the pace in the new series too, but it's like meals, you don't always want the same one.
If you want a demonstration of why the Doctor really really needs a companion, listen to the start of this adventure. He hasn't got one, so he's explaining everything to himself. It's clunky and rather *facepalm*, even if he does notice that himself.
The Doctor is doctor-y, which is good because this is 8 and on TV he didn't get much chance to be doctor-y at all. He was the only good bit of the TV movie, but even so. So, anyway, I like him in the later audios, and I like him in this one, even though it felt... less practiced, less polished, trying harder. Maybe.
Charley I'll have to wait and see. She's compassionate, empathetic, plucky, setting out for adventure, and invites herself along. So, basic companion functions there.
I liked the descriptions. Giving visuals in an audio takes a bit of work, but I liked them. Big airship = fun.
Vortisaurs, also fun.
So, anyways, happy I bought this one, and now I have a whole bunch more to listen to.
My attention is always a bit divided on these though. I'm never more productive than when I've put an audio on. While listening to Storm Warning I had some food, did the laundry, put a hi vis reflective sticker on the arm of my coat (rather badly, but it didn't work like the instructions said, and also I managed to get it turned around 90 degrees so it's fiercely menacing my shoulder rather than staring out behind me), sorted out the paperwork for my employee (which tore the folder last time I picked it up, so now it's all in the big box o admin along with everything else ever), and sorted through the plastic tray I used as an inbox in, judging by the contents, 2005. Oh, and did some throwing away. So that represents my entire to-do list aside from Run Dishwasher, which needs to wait for a couple more meals even if I have run out of forks, and Hang Up Laundry, which shall wait until I can be bothered to stand up. Which could be some time.
I'd probably get a different listening experience if I wasn't skimming paperwork for content keywords at the same time, but the fact the adventure was plenty tense enough anyway speaks well for it, I reckon.
... er, yes, I am predictable...
Along the way I realise I have a really big gap in my mental timeline, cause in my head it goes 'WWI WWII' and in actual history there were in fact years.
So, adventure. With an airship that we know is going to go boom, which has that lovely ticking clock feeling. And with cliffhangers! It's in parts, so they finish on an oh no and keep going. 4 parts. I miss cliffhangers. I do like the pace in the new series too, but it's like meals, you don't always want the same one.
If you want a demonstration of why the Doctor really really needs a companion, listen to the start of this adventure. He hasn't got one, so he's explaining everything to himself. It's clunky and rather *facepalm*, even if he does notice that himself.
The Doctor is doctor-y, which is good because this is 8 and on TV he didn't get much chance to be doctor-y at all. He was the only good bit of the TV movie, but even so. So, anyway, I like him in the later audios, and I like him in this one, even though it felt... less practiced, less polished, trying harder. Maybe.
Charley I'll have to wait and see. She's compassionate, empathetic, plucky, setting out for adventure, and invites herself along. So, basic companion functions there.
I liked the descriptions. Giving visuals in an audio takes a bit of work, but I liked them. Big airship = fun.
Vortisaurs, also fun.
So, anyways, happy I bought this one, and now I have a whole bunch more to listen to.
My attention is always a bit divided on these though. I'm never more productive than when I've put an audio on. While listening to Storm Warning I had some food, did the laundry, put a hi vis reflective sticker on the arm of my coat (rather badly, but it didn't work like the instructions said, and also I managed to get it turned around 90 degrees so it's fiercely menacing my shoulder rather than staring out behind me), sorted out the paperwork for my employee (which tore the folder last time I picked it up, so now it's all in the big box o admin along with everything else ever), and sorted through the plastic tray I used as an inbox in, judging by the contents, 2005. Oh, and did some throwing away. So that represents my entire to-do list aside from Run Dishwasher, which needs to wait for a couple more meals even if I have run out of forks, and Hang Up Laundry, which shall wait until I can be bothered to stand up. Which could be some time.
I'd probably get a different listening experience if I wasn't skimming paperwork for content keywords at the same time, but the fact the adventure was plenty tense enough anyway speaks well for it, I reckon.