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beccaelizabethWonder of wonders, an actual Doctor Who story. 8 and Charley and C'rizz, but nothing awful or objectionable, just an adventure. There is mind control, but the main 3 don't get controlled. It's a plot point that C'rizz is fed up of being controlled so he's studied up on how not to. So they're all in character, in as much as they have characters.
... I still don't like Charley, but at least this is a story she's in that doesn't need trigger warnings all over it.
The storytelling could have done without the narrator bookends. Same like Scaredy Cat, having someone talk to the audience isn't to my taste. Nicer narrator this time, but more being told what's going on and how we should react.
I know 'show don't tell' doesn't sound like it applies to audio, but it does mostly.
The main story had a megalomaniacal computer regulating ever minute and second of people's lives to get maximum productivity, so the only reason people lived was to work, not just working to live. And then the Doctor turns up, which sporks the cogs. I like how the society was all clock focused and referred to really precise time measurements, like 22 seconds or 4 minutes, instead of rounding up or being vague. It underlined how regulated they are and how crucial it is to them to fill up all the time. Good showing.
Also there's like a little moral at the end where the Doctor decides to stay for the clean up and the party, instead of kiting off to save the next people. Because yeah the work never ends, but, party! So that ties together the character and the theme.
There were two named female characters and one titled female voiced computer, who was the big bad. But being bad wasn't heavily gendered I think. The two named characters interacted with men mostly, but had one brief conversation mostly about the Doctor. I don't understand why, when they divide characters up, the men can talk to men or women but the women end up talking to men. It isn't just maths. It might be casting ratios, because there's a Prince and a Brother that could just as well have been a Princess and a Sister, as well as a King and a Husband and the Doctor and C'rizz. And then Charley and the computer and the local lady that helps the Doctor. There's often a local lady who helps the Doctor, usually while he's split from his Companions. So then those two end up in different story threads and don't have a conversation. It's not very good.
An 8 and Charley story where the most I can complain of is a probable Bechdel fail is quite a surprise.
That story was a Doctor Who story and pretty okay and had lots of bits I liked.
... I still don't like Charley, but at least this is a story she's in that doesn't need trigger warnings all over it.
The storytelling could have done without the narrator bookends. Same like Scaredy Cat, having someone talk to the audience isn't to my taste. Nicer narrator this time, but more being told what's going on and how we should react.
I know 'show don't tell' doesn't sound like it applies to audio, but it does mostly.
The main story had a megalomaniacal computer regulating ever minute and second of people's lives to get maximum productivity, so the only reason people lived was to work, not just working to live. And then the Doctor turns up, which sporks the cogs. I like how the society was all clock focused and referred to really precise time measurements, like 22 seconds or 4 minutes, instead of rounding up or being vague. It underlined how regulated they are and how crucial it is to them to fill up all the time. Good showing.
Also there's like a little moral at the end where the Doctor decides to stay for the clean up and the party, instead of kiting off to save the next people. Because yeah the work never ends, but, party! So that ties together the character and the theme.
There were two named female characters and one titled female voiced computer, who was the big bad. But being bad wasn't heavily gendered I think. The two named characters interacted with men mostly, but had one brief conversation mostly about the Doctor. I don't understand why, when they divide characters up, the men can talk to men or women but the women end up talking to men. It isn't just maths. It might be casting ratios, because there's a Prince and a Brother that could just as well have been a Princess and a Sister, as well as a King and a Husband and the Doctor and C'rizz. And then Charley and the computer and the local lady that helps the Doctor. There's often a local lady who helps the Doctor, usually while he's split from his Companions. So then those two end up in different story threads and don't have a conversation. It's not very good.
An 8 and Charley story where the most I can complain of is a probable Bechdel fail is quite a surprise.
That story was a Doctor Who story and pretty okay and had lots of bits I liked.