Spent the day listening to Doctor Who
Dec. 31st, 2014 05:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethListened to 1963 Fanfare for the Common Men.
Which was diverting enough, it was okay. Stuff about fame turning people into monsters seems fun.
But then I went back to listening to 8 from early on, even though that meant listening to Minuet in Hell, a thoroughly misconceived story that should never have been a Doctor Who adventure and is also just really rubbish writing. As well as spending the whole adventure waiting for the Doctor and his companion to regain their memories and develop a personality, which deprives the audience of the characters they're actually there for, it should have trigger warnings over it for how it treats women. ... the story kicks off with kidnapping the companion for the purposes of sexual slavery and then sacrifices her to the devil to make her the vessel of a demon and force her to marry the evil leader. This is the second story in a row where kidnap and forced marriage are what they do to the woman, and the whole bit with being forced into a brothel first just makes it much worse. No such thing belongs in a Doctor Who story and it just thoroughly pisses me off.
I've heard explanations about what the books got up to between series and how the audios were trying to find their way to setting a tone, and I just don't care, such things never need to be told, and they certainly don't need to be told often enough to become a bloody theme.
... wow I'm still really pissed off about Minuet in Hell. I should put it in a different folder so I don't do this again next time I forget why I'm not listening to it.
Then there was Invaders from Mars, which is a pastiche or homage or whatever that picks up on aspects of the noir PI thing that just irritate me a lot, like the bad guy being super camp. Or that might just be Gatiss' idea of funny. I don't know why, it seems tedious and nasty from here. It was also the second Charley story in a row where the plot twisted on someone being live on air without knowing it. Bit clumsy sounding, though there were lots of others with other characters in between the two. Aside from that the story was okay, lots of running around and weaving the thing into history in a daft Doctor Who way.
Lastly there was The Chimes of Midnight. I remembered I don't listen to that, but I forgot why. Well, I remembered it was tedious and repetitive because the paper thin characters turn out to be a Clue just a really boring one, but I forgot it needs trigger warnings for suicide.
It had a nice hopeful ending, but the two discs of story about suicide weren't really balanced out by the two or three sentences of the Doctor and Charley saying to choose life and how even tiny tedious miserable lives are worth it.
I should probably have skipped to the ending once I remembered. That was tedious and totally depressing.
So, I think I'm done with Doctor Who for the day.
... or possibly longer. but then I'd have to think of something else to fill the hours.
Which was diverting enough, it was okay. Stuff about fame turning people into monsters seems fun.
But then I went back to listening to 8 from early on, even though that meant listening to Minuet in Hell, a thoroughly misconceived story that should never have been a Doctor Who adventure and is also just really rubbish writing. As well as spending the whole adventure waiting for the Doctor and his companion to regain their memories and develop a personality, which deprives the audience of the characters they're actually there for, it should have trigger warnings over it for how it treats women. ... the story kicks off with kidnapping the companion for the purposes of sexual slavery and then sacrifices her to the devil to make her the vessel of a demon and force her to marry the evil leader. This is the second story in a row where kidnap and forced marriage are what they do to the woman, and the whole bit with being forced into a brothel first just makes it much worse. No such thing belongs in a Doctor Who story and it just thoroughly pisses me off.
I've heard explanations about what the books got up to between series and how the audios were trying to find their way to setting a tone, and I just don't care, such things never need to be told, and they certainly don't need to be told often enough to become a bloody theme.
... wow I'm still really pissed off about Minuet in Hell. I should put it in a different folder so I don't do this again next time I forget why I'm not listening to it.
Then there was Invaders from Mars, which is a pastiche or homage or whatever that picks up on aspects of the noir PI thing that just irritate me a lot, like the bad guy being super camp. Or that might just be Gatiss' idea of funny. I don't know why, it seems tedious and nasty from here. It was also the second Charley story in a row where the plot twisted on someone being live on air without knowing it. Bit clumsy sounding, though there were lots of others with other characters in between the two. Aside from that the story was okay, lots of running around and weaving the thing into history in a daft Doctor Who way.
Lastly there was The Chimes of Midnight. I remembered I don't listen to that, but I forgot why. Well, I remembered it was tedious and repetitive because the paper thin characters turn out to be a Clue just a really boring one, but I forgot it needs trigger warnings for suicide.
It had a nice hopeful ending, but the two discs of story about suicide weren't really balanced out by the two or three sentences of the Doctor and Charley saying to choose life and how even tiny tedious miserable lives are worth it.
I should probably have skipped to the ending once I remembered. That was tedious and totally depressing.
So, I think I'm done with Doctor Who for the day.
... or possibly longer. but then I'd have to think of something else to fill the hours.