Big Finish Audio: Persuasion
Dec. 27th, 2014 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethThey put a fanboy on the TARDIS.
He's socially inept, unathletic, and has an encyclopaedic and slightly trainspotter knowledge of the Doctor and his enemies. He walks in to the TARDIS uninvited and gets lost in it. And the Doctor gives him a sonic screwdriver and invites him along and shows him secrets.
What's the boy of Mary Sue again?
Done slightly differently that could work fine, like if he had a personality beyond vague anxiety and a desire to prove himself. It's just done like this he's the instant focus of the story for no particular reason, I don't know enough about him even at the end of the story to want to have spent that much time with him, and I don't find him me-like enough to treat it as a choose your own adventure.
So I was bored.
(Also you know that thing where woman with extensive training and skills suggests slightly rubbish man is in fact slightly rubbish and should consider another job? And then the story conspires to put him somewhere he can be all the cool, even when her skills would logically be more useful? Yeah, that thing.)
There was a seed of good stuff where both bad guys and this particular moment of the Doctor are all about improving the universe before they die, whatever it takes, but it stayed seedlike.
The whole plot is like a giant To Be Continued, plus a couple of characters speaking rhyming Shakesperean style, a couple of nazis and some bonus sexual assault (unwanted kissing, for which she kicks him hard, but still, creepy kissing ew).
I don't know what the point was and don't see me re-listening... ever.
Granted I am tired, slightly headachey, vaguely nauseous, and have suddenly gone off Ribena despite it usually being half of everything I drink, so that might be influencing my opinion, but, basically, blah.
He's socially inept, unathletic, and has an encyclopaedic and slightly trainspotter knowledge of the Doctor and his enemies. He walks in to the TARDIS uninvited and gets lost in it. And the Doctor gives him a sonic screwdriver and invites him along and shows him secrets.
What's the boy of Mary Sue again?
Done slightly differently that could work fine, like if he had a personality beyond vague anxiety and a desire to prove himself. It's just done like this he's the instant focus of the story for no particular reason, I don't know enough about him even at the end of the story to want to have spent that much time with him, and I don't find him me-like enough to treat it as a choose your own adventure.
So I was bored.
(Also you know that thing where woman with extensive training and skills suggests slightly rubbish man is in fact slightly rubbish and should consider another job? And then the story conspires to put him somewhere he can be all the cool, even when her skills would logically be more useful? Yeah, that thing.)
There was a seed of good stuff where both bad guys and this particular moment of the Doctor are all about improving the universe before they die, whatever it takes, but it stayed seedlike.
The whole plot is like a giant To Be Continued, plus a couple of characters speaking rhyming Shakesperean style, a couple of nazis and some bonus sexual assault (unwanted kissing, for which she kicks him hard, but still, creepy kissing ew).
I don't know what the point was and don't see me re-listening... ever.
Granted I am tired, slightly headachey, vaguely nauseous, and have suddenly gone off Ribena despite it usually being half of everything I drink, so that might be influencing my opinion, but, basically, blah.