Torchwood: Lost Souls, Asylum

I listened two Torchwood radio dramas, the not Big Finish ones so I had them on a different app.

I have a headache so I do not have big thoughts
but
they're set after Owen and Toshiko die, and the team are down to Jack, Ianto and Gwen.

... my first thought on Lost Souls is that everyone has got so much better at audio acting since then, but they were given a lot of technobabble to get through, so, fair enough.

I dont much relisten to Lost Souls so I hadnt lately thought of how it makes House of the Dead look.
There's some bits about grief and guilt and how the whole team are putting on a brave face for the whole team.
I feel like it doesnt fit well with the monster of the week though. Like there's something about grief draining you and making you vulnerable, yeah, but a tragedy of false hope just sort of sits there.
Until HotD I guess.


Asylum has a good speech from Andy about alienation, how it's part of feeling human to feel alien sometimes. I remembered that, that was good.
I hadnt remembered this seems to be when he finds out what Torchwood is about.
Like, Gwen is trying to hide it from him, but tada, aliens.

Not sure that fits with Big Finish writing a friendship between him and Owen... unless someone retconned Andy after it, which was threatened often enough in Asylum.

Alternatives are that Andy lies convincingly (really?) or that he'd been through all that spooky with Owen and just still remained surprised by aliens.

The Owen and Andy audios are great btw, I'm just turning the stories around in my head a bit and not sure the edges match.




I'll do more thinking when the headache makes space.



Had a nice day.