BBC audios
Mar. 28th, 2011 03:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI listened today to The Jade Pyramid and The Deadly Download.
Matt Smith is not the best audio book reader. I think he could do with reading more stories aloud. Possibly to demanding audiences that will tell him to read that bit again if they don't get it. It's not that he can't do the voices, whatever accent he attempts seems to fall off in the middle of sentences but that's okay, not everyone can do voices. It's not speaking the grammar very well that made it feel sort of muddy. Sentences didn't end very much before the next began. Mushy mixy sentences.
Or I'm grumpy and picky about readings.
I liked the actual adventure though. Medieval Japan makes a nice change in venue. And there's scary things and fightings and fast talking and figuring things out with science. And Amy was clever.
... I miss David Tennant doing the reading. He's done lots of audio and he can do lots of voices and he reads it out real clear. I may get out that bit of the collection later. I've got a window open to his website to find what other audio things he's done. I keep thinking it's possible I should try listening things that aren't Doctor Who at all. I hear that's popular.
I like the Sarah Jane Adventures one. Clear reading and a plot with lots of running around and an everyday object being scary but not too plausibly scary. Covers the basics.
... I have caught up with Big Finish Audios to the point where I have to wait each month for them to make new ones. I think I miss them. I'm re-listening to some but it's not quite the same.
Maybe I should buy like Gallifrey and stuff, the not-monthly ones.
Once I've finished my stack of BBC audios. I tend to buy things on the ooh shiny principle and also because once I've started A Collection then not buying things leads to gaps.
But I like long full cast adventures rather a lot better than the reading out sort.
Matt Smith is not the best audio book reader. I think he could do with reading more stories aloud. Possibly to demanding audiences that will tell him to read that bit again if they don't get it. It's not that he can't do the voices, whatever accent he attempts seems to fall off in the middle of sentences but that's okay, not everyone can do voices. It's not speaking the grammar very well that made it feel sort of muddy. Sentences didn't end very much before the next began. Mushy mixy sentences.
Or I'm grumpy and picky about readings.
I liked the actual adventure though. Medieval Japan makes a nice change in venue. And there's scary things and fightings and fast talking and figuring things out with science. And Amy was clever.
... I miss David Tennant doing the reading. He's done lots of audio and he can do lots of voices and he reads it out real clear. I may get out that bit of the collection later. I've got a window open to his website to find what other audio things he's done. I keep thinking it's possible I should try listening things that aren't Doctor Who at all. I hear that's popular.
I like the Sarah Jane Adventures one. Clear reading and a plot with lots of running around and an everyday object being scary but not too plausibly scary. Covers the basics.
... I have caught up with Big Finish Audios to the point where I have to wait each month for them to make new ones. I think I miss them. I'm re-listening to some but it's not quite the same.
Maybe I should buy like Gallifrey and stuff, the not-monthly ones.
Once I've finished my stack of BBC audios. I tend to buy things on the ooh shiny principle and also because once I've started A Collection then not buying things leads to gaps.
But I like long full cast adventures rather a lot better than the reading out sort.