Achieved today
Nov. 26th, 2013 04:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI woke up, filled and ran the dishwasher, and did my half of the tasks for cleaner day. Then the cleaner did her half and now it is clean. I like it when that works.
I've mostly been listening to 4th Doctor audio adventures from Big Finish. I play them at the same time I play Fate, which is a silly stomp around dungeons hitting things game that doesn't require attention. I've realised this'll leave some difficulties when I want to listen to the ones that were on the radio just recently, cause they're on different devices I can't play both at once. Probably I'll have to just stare at the ceiling while I listen to those. But this way I've played enough Fate to finish it on Page, pass my hat on to a descendent, finish on Adventurer, pass the hat on again, and start stomping around as the third generation. By the time I finish on Hero I'll have a magic hat of surpassing strength and might possibly play Legendary without getting killed quite so quickly. And even if I don't, I'll have listened a lot of Doctor Who.
I listened to Foe from the Future, one of the Lost Stories set. There was ghosts and time tunnels and giant insect dudes and mad scientists and politics and Leela and the Doctor and lots of running around and some pretty good fights for a radio play. There's an art to them. Leela narrating her plays seems to work pretty good though, she's the kind of person you can totally believe feels the need to mention where her knife is. It was a good long adventure and I think I rather liked it. Would happily listen again.
The other 4th Doctor stuff has been a bit more variable.
I remember I mentioned Destination Nerva on here, but am currently reaching to try and remember the plot. Probably there was Nerva. Definitely there was Leela. Um... Nope, that one was boring, and now I've forgot it.
The Renaissance Man was more good because it had a theme and some funny bits and trickery.
Wrath of the Iceni was pretty good, Leela learning stuff and some moral dilemmas and the Doctor playing I spy when all he can see is the roof. ... I'm easily amused. ... especially when it's Tom Baker's voice.
Energy of the Daleks was boring again. There were Daleks and robomen and Leela being too much herself to robotise. But I can't really remember what all the Daleks plan was, and the whole thing about being anti high energy bills but anti that particular form of energy generation seemed a bit clunky. Timely, but clunky. ... hmmm, no, still trying to remember what the point was, still can't. Bored.
Trail of the White Worm and The Oseidon Adventure were good individually and as a two parter. The problem set up in White Worm got sorted by the end of the story while setting up the next problem. And that problem, mostly, was The Master. :-) ... it's a pity the best Master voices are all gone. Also sad. But The Master in this one was usually copies of the Master who all thought they were the real Master, which was intermittently funny and useful, and it was a pretty good plot as the Master's plans go. He mind controls a human who made good comedy, he makes allies with non humans and brings them to Earth, and then there's UNIT. Proper shaped story that. But not much UNIT, just the Doctor and Leela running around a lot. Leela being very competent and useful is always of the good. Both stories were fun listens.
I had planned to listen to the next one after telling the internet all about my day *waves*
but now I've stopped I've realised I'm tired, so I'll just read a bunch instead, and listen more tomorrow.
:-)
I've mostly been listening to 4th Doctor audio adventures from Big Finish. I play them at the same time I play Fate, which is a silly stomp around dungeons hitting things game that doesn't require attention. I've realised this'll leave some difficulties when I want to listen to the ones that were on the radio just recently, cause they're on different devices I can't play both at once. Probably I'll have to just stare at the ceiling while I listen to those. But this way I've played enough Fate to finish it on Page, pass my hat on to a descendent, finish on Adventurer, pass the hat on again, and start stomping around as the third generation. By the time I finish on Hero I'll have a magic hat of surpassing strength and might possibly play Legendary without getting killed quite so quickly. And even if I don't, I'll have listened a lot of Doctor Who.
I listened to Foe from the Future, one of the Lost Stories set. There was ghosts and time tunnels and giant insect dudes and mad scientists and politics and Leela and the Doctor and lots of running around and some pretty good fights for a radio play. There's an art to them. Leela narrating her plays seems to work pretty good though, she's the kind of person you can totally believe feels the need to mention where her knife is. It was a good long adventure and I think I rather liked it. Would happily listen again.
The other 4th Doctor stuff has been a bit more variable.
I remember I mentioned Destination Nerva on here, but am currently reaching to try and remember the plot. Probably there was Nerva. Definitely there was Leela. Um... Nope, that one was boring, and now I've forgot it.
The Renaissance Man was more good because it had a theme and some funny bits and trickery.
Wrath of the Iceni was pretty good, Leela learning stuff and some moral dilemmas and the Doctor playing I spy when all he can see is the roof. ... I'm easily amused. ... especially when it's Tom Baker's voice.
Energy of the Daleks was boring again. There were Daleks and robomen and Leela being too much herself to robotise. But I can't really remember what all the Daleks plan was, and the whole thing about being anti high energy bills but anti that particular form of energy generation seemed a bit clunky. Timely, but clunky. ... hmmm, no, still trying to remember what the point was, still can't. Bored.
Trail of the White Worm and The Oseidon Adventure were good individually and as a two parter. The problem set up in White Worm got sorted by the end of the story while setting up the next problem. And that problem, mostly, was The Master. :-) ... it's a pity the best Master voices are all gone. Also sad. But The Master in this one was usually copies of the Master who all thought they were the real Master, which was intermittently funny and useful, and it was a pretty good plot as the Master's plans go. He mind controls a human who made good comedy, he makes allies with non humans and brings them to Earth, and then there's UNIT. Proper shaped story that. But not much UNIT, just the Doctor and Leela running around a lot. Leela being very competent and useful is always of the good. Both stories were fun listens.
I had planned to listen to the next one after telling the internet all about my day *waves*
but now I've stopped I've realised I'm tired, so I'll just read a bunch instead, and listen more tomorrow.
:-)
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Date: 2013-11-26 11:37 pm (UTC)