Big Finish Audio: Doctor Who: 83 Something Inside

8, Charley and C'rizz. And amnesia. Again. The Doctor is out of character on account of amnesia. Again.
... who sat down and decided this was his defining quality? I know we only have the one piece of TV canon and he was borked in the brain parts then, but really, did not one put the stories all side by side and think 'hmm, maybe our main character should in fact be our main character on a regular basis'?

Aside from that it's a pretty much Doctor Who shaped story, with some torture, and the 'noble sacrifice' kind of suicide (ugh). ( Read more... )

The background music is driving me nuts. Something about the balance is off. The Doctor is the quietest noise and the background doot doot doot is loud.

Nothing terrible or sexualised happened to Charley, she just ran around screaming a lot.
C'rizz wasn't notably evil in this one neither, with just a brief but interesting reference to picking up skills from someone he... probably 'saved'.
And the Doctor turned back into himself eventually, with bonus football references and a bit of 'never ever ever give up'.

So I don't hate this one or anything, it's just not very interesting neither.

Big Finish Audio: Doctor Who: 88: Memory Lane

Memory again. Again again again. The Doctor and Charley both spend time with amnesia. Charley gets reverted to childhood again.
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I actually like this one. Plural female characters who talk to each other even.

I just think they've worn out these characters kind of thoroughly.

But I'm up to their last couple of adventures now, so that'll work out.



Also, having listened to all these in a row, I forgive Charley all her more idiot decisions (but not the writers for making her that way). Anyone who has been through all this and had her brain messed with as often as she has can't rightly be blamed for going a bit wrong in the head. Half the people she meets are illusions, events end up on a loop, and the laws of time have special exemptions built in just for her. However she reacts in response to all that seems reasonable.

Big Finish Audio : Doctor Who 101 Absolution

I don't know if it's too late at night but that felt kind of nothingy?

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On the plus side it was the good sort of nothingy too where nothing happened that made me wish I wasn't listening. And two women talked to each other about one of them's mother, so that's a win.

Just kind of sad a companion ended on a could do better.