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beccaelizabethListened to three Big Finish adventures. All turned out to be boring.
Night of the Stormcrow was just kind of nothingy. It got to the end and I found myself taking it apart for thematic components to make an actual story out of. It should have been about despair and entropy and time and time eaters and looking at the end and what it would take to make that particular character give up, but instead it was about everyone getting the same kind of sulky and trying to shoot things. Leela had a nice speech about searching for somewhere to belong but it sort of sat there shining in the middle of a run around. I wanted to go back and do better by it.
Voyage to Venus and Voyage to the New World had plots but unfortunately also had Jago and Lightfoot. It's not that I dislike them, I pretty much nothing them, but every word out of their mouths makes me think they're basically for a different demographic. Also I was quite liking the one on Venus where the empress, head of security, and chief scientist were all women, right up until it turned out that was because it was planet of women. Given the number of stories where all those posts would have been filled with men without comment I thought it was about time women got a turn. But no, it has to have reasons.
Also, I discover I find it vastly more plausible that human descended people would have males turn into parasitic blobs like deep sea fish things than I do that human descended people would retain speech yet lose the basic principles of music. The very idea of it, making rhythmic and melodic noises, was new to them. How does that even happen? Changing males to not have thinking and just be disposable fertilisation attachments is just weird, but whatever. Changing humans to not have music at all... I don't see it. Even deaf people do percussion.
... I'm being weird? I'm being weird.
The New World one had some nice themey bits about children only being made into parasitic colonial bastards by the parent-model they latched on to. I know why that story goes with the Victorian era gents. So with that one it was more a story for which I am not the audience.
Conclusion: Needs more women.
Night of the Stormcrow was just kind of nothingy. It got to the end and I found myself taking it apart for thematic components to make an actual story out of. It should have been about despair and entropy and time and time eaters and looking at the end and what it would take to make that particular character give up, but instead it was about everyone getting the same kind of sulky and trying to shoot things. Leela had a nice speech about searching for somewhere to belong but it sort of sat there shining in the middle of a run around. I wanted to go back and do better by it.
Voyage to Venus and Voyage to the New World had plots but unfortunately also had Jago and Lightfoot. It's not that I dislike them, I pretty much nothing them, but every word out of their mouths makes me think they're basically for a different demographic. Also I was quite liking the one on Venus where the empress, head of security, and chief scientist were all women, right up until it turned out that was because it was planet of women. Given the number of stories where all those posts would have been filled with men without comment I thought it was about time women got a turn. But no, it has to have reasons.
Also, I discover I find it vastly more plausible that human descended people would have males turn into parasitic blobs like deep sea fish things than I do that human descended people would retain speech yet lose the basic principles of music. The very idea of it, making rhythmic and melodic noises, was new to them. How does that even happen? Changing males to not have thinking and just be disposable fertilisation attachments is just weird, but whatever. Changing humans to not have music at all... I don't see it. Even deaf people do percussion.
... I'm being weird? I'm being weird.
The New World one had some nice themey bits about children only being made into parasitic colonial bastards by the parent-model they latched on to. I know why that story goes with the Victorian era gents. So with that one it was more a story for which I am not the audience.
Conclusion: Needs more women.