Big Finish Audio 81 - The Kingmaker
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beccaelizabethIn which we learn that the Doctor gets very drunk on ginger ale, and that driving while intoxicated gives the TARDIS hiccups. Also, that the Doctor wrote a set of factual children's books under the name 'Doctor Who'.
It is very very silly and also very good at it.
Trying to fit it together with, like, anything else ever makes for brain breaky, but on its own terms it works perfectly well. And it can be filed under 'things the Doctor thought of while drunk' if you need an excuse.
5, Peri, and Erimem. Also Shakespeare, and King Richard III.
The idea that the famous kings of history would have had to deal with temporal tourists all their life is a great one, and played very well here.
And Shakespeare as so loyal to his queen he'd die to protect her reputation works too.
But what this does to everyone's timelines is both brain breaky complicated and perfectly story inevitable. It works. And then you look at all the loops it went through to work and get a bit dizzy about it.
The whole strand about authors past their deadlines was hilarious. Er, at least it was to a writer with a flexible relationship with deadlines.
And then everything about Shakespeare...
if you add together the 10th Doctor story, the 8th Doctor story, and now this, we have a Shakespeare who:
was kidnapped as a boy to a future Earth where time travellers were trying to preserve his work... sort of... and let him loose in the library, where he read all the Shakespeare plays. This also involved magic mirrors and Daleks.
Met the 10th Doctor and had all that with the not-witches happen.
Then met the 5th Doctor and, er, got mistook for a king a hundred years before he was born. And in his own personal timeline, considerable number of plays before he was done.
Which was explained by swapping the King into his place and telling him to get Francis Bacon to help if he got stuck, which is the most creative approach to the who was Shakespeare debate I've yet seen.
Also I just poked wiki and it seems 4 referred to having met Shakespeare too, so there's at least one thing else to go on the list, though one can hope it involves neither time travel nor aliens.
It don't half complicate the man.
But it's ever so much fun to do.
Also of fun is the gender stuff in this story. And Peri and Erimem getting stuff to do that's at least as dignified and useful as anyone else in the story... which isn't saying much, this time. I rather like the bits with the arm breaking. Though I had to take my earphones out for some bits you could see coming from very far away because mistakes I know about before the characters do aren't fun for me, I just get embarrassed for them. It was perfectly logical from her point of view though.
It was lots of sorts of fun to listen to. And Erimem was interesting and fun too. I must listen more.
It is very very silly and also very good at it.
Trying to fit it together with, like, anything else ever makes for brain breaky, but on its own terms it works perfectly well. And it can be filed under 'things the Doctor thought of while drunk' if you need an excuse.
5, Peri, and Erimem. Also Shakespeare, and King Richard III.
The idea that the famous kings of history would have had to deal with temporal tourists all their life is a great one, and played very well here.
And Shakespeare as so loyal to his queen he'd die to protect her reputation works too.
But what this does to everyone's timelines is both brain breaky complicated and perfectly story inevitable. It works. And then you look at all the loops it went through to work and get a bit dizzy about it.
The whole strand about authors past their deadlines was hilarious. Er, at least it was to a writer with a flexible relationship with deadlines.
And then everything about Shakespeare...
if you add together the 10th Doctor story, the 8th Doctor story, and now this, we have a Shakespeare who:
was kidnapped as a boy to a future Earth where time travellers were trying to preserve his work... sort of... and let him loose in the library, where he read all the Shakespeare plays. This also involved magic mirrors and Daleks.
Met the 10th Doctor and had all that with the not-witches happen.
Then met the 5th Doctor and, er, got mistook for a king a hundred years before he was born. And in his own personal timeline, considerable number of plays before he was done.
Which was explained by swapping the King into his place and telling him to get Francis Bacon to help if he got stuck, which is the most creative approach to the who was Shakespeare debate I've yet seen.
Also I just poked wiki and it seems 4 referred to having met Shakespeare too, so there's at least one thing else to go on the list, though one can hope it involves neither time travel nor aliens.
It don't half complicate the man.
But it's ever so much fun to do.
Also of fun is the gender stuff in this story. And Peri and Erimem getting stuff to do that's at least as dignified and useful as anyone else in the story... which isn't saying much, this time. I rather like the bits with the arm breaking. Though I had to take my earphones out for some bits you could see coming from very far away because mistakes I know about before the characters do aren't fun for me, I just get embarrassed for them. It was perfectly logical from her point of view though.
It was lots of sorts of fun to listen to. And Erimem was interesting and fun too. I must listen more.